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British Judge Calls for Banning the Sale of Large, Pointed Kitchen Knives
PJ Media ^
| 05/29/2018
| Rick Moran
Posted on 05/29/2018 10:52:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ban; britain; knifeban; knives
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To: Chode
"Well, lets see... that about cover it then???" Well...what about a sharp stick...bamboo maybe... Skewers..! Yeah, what about skewers???
:)
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posted on
05/29/2018 12:09:29 PM PDT
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: mylife
She produced a 12 Marine Corp fighting knife from her boot, sunk it into the bank for a hand hold...
I’m impressed. You got a real woman right there.
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posted on
05/29/2018 12:10:44 PM PDT
by
murrie
(Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
To: unread
they prolly fall into the all things pointy category, like pens and pencils and such
63
posted on
05/29/2018 12:27:57 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: SeekAndFind
Back ground checks and 7 day waiting period for kitchen cutlery, soon to be required.
64
posted on
05/29/2018 1:05:47 PM PDT
by
Retvet
(Retvete)
To: SeekAndFind
My first and second thought was that someone needs to get a comment on this from Chef Gordon Ramsey. My third thought would be that there should be a ‘bleep’ machine ready at hand for that interview.
My following thoughts were of the absolutely staggering number of deadly weapons I possessed, before that tragic boating accident.
My final thought is that there is, in reality, only one single deadly weapon and it is the one between the ears of most people. Also worth thinking about is the fact that self-defense experts preach about making ANYTHING A DEADLY WEAPON when the need arises!
The judge is a purblind idiot!
65
posted on
05/29/2018 1:36:31 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: taxcontrol
How about chopping off the hands of those that use knives in the commission of a crime?They won't be able to, since there won't be any sharp edges anywhere in Great Britain.
They will have to use an angle grinder, and grind them off.
Mark
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:06:48 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: FlingWingFlyer
So I guess full semi-automatic electric knives are going to be banned also. Dang.And "Saws-Alls" will be Right Out!
Mark
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:10:26 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: SeekAndFind
They want their subjects TOTALLY disarmed and at their mercy.
Even their alternative media still don’t get it. It’s their mindset, due to centuries of being subjects of their monarch rulers. Sad, really.
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:14:37 PM PDT
by
Kalamata
(bibleresearchtools.com)
To: SeekAndFind
Automobiles will be next ??
I hate to see what the Brits will finally do to these islamist-pandering government aparatchiks when they have finally had enough of the betrayals.
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:50:17 PM PDT
by
elbook
To: SeekAndFind
My goodness ...how long are people going to take this crap?
To: SeekAndFind
The British really have this whole weapons-control thing well in hand. No doubt they’re the Most Civilized People on Earth.
They really need, however, to confiscate large soup ladles and all frying pas, and demand that cricket players lock up their bats when not on the field.
Then, if they’ll just enforce a ban on fountain pens, razor blades, and scissors, they can look forward to a truly peaceful society.
Oh, they’ll have to get all lawbreakers to surrender their firearms, too, of course.
To: SeekAndFind
Here’s the money shot, though, which ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE A MONTY PYTHON SKETCH! Freaking stupid, idiotic, muzlim-ass kissing, POS, fecking, liberal, jerk a$$hole!
He asked: But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all.”
“Acknowledging that any blade could cause injury, the judge pointed out slash wounds are rarely fatal.
So, he said: I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives - manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government - to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends.
“It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends,” he
To: murrie
She aint mine but I am fond of her :)
73
posted on
05/29/2018 4:55:34 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Magnum44
That's how the Granny Gangs started
74
posted on
05/29/2018 5:11:08 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
(Very sporting of the little black duck.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/29/2018 7:55:06 PM PDT
by
mfish13
(Elections have Consequences.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Brits have gone stark raving mad! If you are going to ban knives with points, you better ban forks with those nasty points. Ban pens and pencils too, they have points. How about nails and wooden stakes? Good God people, it’s not the instrument that is dangerous, it’s the person using it to destroy. Wake TFU!!!!!
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posted on
05/29/2018 8:20:20 PM PDT
by
41Thunder
(It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.)
To: robroys woman
You can sharpen the edge of your credit card and use it to slit peoples throats. They should ban credit cards. Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981)! Though, as I remember it, he didn't even sharpen the edge! Lesser men will have to, of course.
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:42:18 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Moltke
Sharkey's Machine deserves pictures
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:46:40 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Moltke
How about what’s-his-name regarding killing someone with a pencil. I think it was some guy in the Nixon administration.
Yeah, G. Gordon Liddy.
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posted on
05/30/2018 12:52:26 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: Magnum44
Oh yes it does! Thank you.
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posted on
05/31/2018 1:52:05 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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