Posted on 06/18/2019 12:18:59 PM PDT by PROCON
It’s pretty difficult (though clearly not impossible) to get a gun in England, even for criminals. Has that stopped crime, included attempted murder? Well, it’s definitely slowed it down a bit, but no… there are still people trying to kill each other and the weapon of choice is usually the knife. What’s an oppressive government to do? Easy answer, boys and girls. We’ll just make sure all the knives are duller. (NY Times)
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.
While the blunt-knives proposal was only one among many by the Nottingham City Council to tackle knife crime, it was immediately singled out for criticism by medical experts and advocates for domestic abuse survivors, who called it “ludicrous” and ill conceived.
The proposal by the Nottinghamshire Police, in the East Midlands of England, comes as Britain struggles with an epidemic of knife crime outside the home, which some analysts say is fueled by reductions in the nation’s police forces under austerity and cuts to social service programs.
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wait what? They ban guns, now criminals start using knives, then they try to semi-ban those..
Dull knives? We all know what that means, everyone will be cutting themselves because knives slip and go sideways when they are dull.
UK is stupid. My guess is they will devise a Sharpness Index for knives.
Trained professionals will come around to homes and test your knives for sharpness. If they are too sharp they will be dulled.
This sounds too stupid to even be fiction.
What abject morons.
Shades of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and her call for “safer guns and safer bullets.”
Well the easiest way to cut oneself is to use a dull knife
Ask the people up at Sheffield.
To call this insane would be giving them too much credit.
Didn’t she have a ‘wankers manifesto’?
They can stop eating steak and roast beef. Unless they run it through a Cuisinart before serving.
They already have duller knives. They are called “spoons”.
They’ll have to outlaw knife sharpeners next.
Will wet stones and grindstones have to become less effective? What about forges and anvils? Register those?
From a 1994 NYT article:
The dismissal of Dr. Elders came as some news organizations were preparing to report that at a United Nations conference on AIDS earlier this month, she had condoned the idea of teaching schoolchildren to masturbate as a way of avoiding the spread of the AIDS virus.
Appears the Dull knives are the ones making the rules.
How about stupider people, so they can’t find their way around such obviously stupid rules. Smack all the smart kids on the head repeatedly, ‘til they get brain damage.
Heck, you couldn’t even slice butter with that baby.
Can’t call for duller cops; they’re already there.
Hamburger would be an improvement.
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