Or sharp but no point (although my picture does have a little bit of a point)? 
Posted on 06/16/2019 8:06:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right
In an attempt to tackle domestic violence, the police in a British county came up with a startling plan: Replace the sharp knives in victims’ kitchens with blunt-tipped instruments to prevent their partners from stabbing them to death.
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Oh, and one more thing. Note the phrase "domestic abuse" in the headline. But according to the article, only 17% of UK knife attacks are domestic abuse cases.
So the other 83% must be street crimes. What about those street criminals? Will they be issued blunt knives too? The article doesn't say.
“Blunt” as in “The fatal wound was inflicted by a blunt instrument.”? Oh, that certainly gives the ME some variety in his or her work.
Will they next ban files from hardware stores so people can’t put points on blunt knives? Will there be a sharp pointed knives buy back scheme?
This idea will die out quickly. Not even our ridiculous government is going to waste time debating and passing a ludicrous and patently unworkable laws banning pointy knives so this police initiative is just going to be laughed out of existance.
This is what happens when you fast track idiots with sociology degrees up the ranks before they’ve got any meaningful experience as a beat bobby.
Or sharp but no point (although my picture does have a little bit of a point)?
This article is satire yes?
Machetes have blunt tips. A meat clever is blunt.
Today’s secret word is: “jihadists”
It comes back to this classic moment from “All in the Family”:
Gloria Bunker-Stivic : Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?
Archie Bunker : Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?
> This article is satire yes? <
Not at all. You are obviously too provincial to appreciate modern UK police work.
The real story here is that the police think people are too stupid to know how to sharpen a knife.
I can’t believe you just gave away the secret word. Geneva Abdul is seriously angry with you.
Why not just solve the problem and throw the Moose-limbs out of the country?
Oh that’s right, sorry . . .
Convicts can take metal blades and sharpen them on cement until the become pointy.
That would happen in Britain.
Both of which are completely legal, as are billhooks (agricultural implements attatched to long polls and used as a weapons during the middle ages). You can’t ban these because they are tools essential to certain jobs.
> Convicts can take metal blades and sharpen them on cement until the become pointy. <
Don’t worry about that. Scotland Yard is already taking steps to ban concrete.
The brits have fallen soooooo low. Blunt knives? Really? How about abuse using your blunt fists? What idiocy in the name of PC and moozlum-loving. The best of the brits were wiped out in the two WW’s.
LOL
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