English Judge Says Solution to Knife Crime is to Remove the Point

Ammoland ^ | 3 June, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

A British judge is proposing that all knives in the country have the points filed off.  You do not really need pointy knives, he says, and they are causing all the knife crime.

The parallels to the push to ban guns in the UK are unmistakable. From telegraph.co.uk:

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

In the past two months, he said, there have been 77 knife-related incidents in Bedfordshire, including three killings.

Does he really believe these young warriors, defending their honor and their turf, as they see it, will be deterred from having effective weapons because they may need to file a point back on a knife?

Does he completely miss the availability of steel, hard plastic, files, belt sanders, brass, bronze, copper, aluminum, or even flint and glass?

[Deplorable American1776]

Is this from the Onion? I know it isn’t, but it sounds like it. I guess Liberals read the Onion to get their ideas. Sorry, Onion, you can’t make news up anymore, in a few year some Idiots (Dems in the USA, Liberal in the UK and other nanny state parties) might use it.

[Myrddin]

Yup. Edged weapons operate in thrust, slash and chop operations. The design will decide the optimal mode of use. The chop option requires significant mass.

[aquila48]

“Knives are easily made. Points are easily replaced on metal knives.”

Then you make sharpening wheels illegal.

[Myrddin]

Bricks and cement will suffice in a pinch for adhoc sharpening. Even a random rock from the garden.

[pabianice]

Similarly, the Brits are proposing that the tips of erect penises be removed. They are weapons of male domination, you know.

[Celtic Conservative]

Judge, have you ever heard of straight razors? So deadly, troops in the Normandy invasion liked to carry them in their boots as a backup. As a corrections officer of 25 years, let me tell you from personal experience, knives don’t need to be pointy to kill and maim.

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[ptsal]

Box cutters have also been effective tools in some crime situations.