The UK is in the midst of an epidemic of knife attacks so, naturally, the idea is being floated to ban them.
Crown Court Judge Nic Madge said in a speech that there should be a nationwide program to file down the points of large kitchen knives and to ban their sale.
Telegraph:
Judge Madge told the assembled judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless - one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”
He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
He said: “A few of the blades carried by youths are so called ‘Rambo knives’ or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.
"The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.
"Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”
Why stop at banning kitchen knives? Let's get to the root of the problem and ban kitchens.
What is it with British judges?
Seems they have far more power than Ameircan judges.
Well, unless they cancel something of Trump’s campaign promises.
Heretic! Punish lawbreakers instead of the innocent? What are you, some kind of nut?
Regardless, this is stupidity on a special sort of level. Look up what a maquahuitl is. Such a thing could easily be made with glass instead of obsidian.
Well i decided a while back that i am NEVER going to visit Europe, always wanted to.
Maybe still Poland, Hungary, Romania and Czech.
don’t really know about the last two except for the fact that their women are beautiful..
They forgot about running with scissors.
British Judge Calls for Banning the Sale of Large, Pointed Kitchen Knives DoughtyOne calls for the banning of pointy-head Judges. The sooner the better.
You can ban anything you want, but human ingenuity being what it is, a person can make an instrument to be used in a stabbing rather easily.
