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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What is it shot out of, a cannon?
Start using screwdrivers instead of knives - see if that stops the stabbings...then maybe try using forks...
I saw a video somewhere. The anvils fortuitously have a hollow on their undersides in which the shooters pack powder, and have pre-drilled a hole in which they insert a fuse, upend it onto ANOTHER anvil, and ignite.
Well, one thing’s reassuring. Even if they outlaw all guns and all gunpowder, we can always make black powder from sulfur, salt peter and charcoal or coal (I forget which), and it packs one hell of a wallop. Can even send an anvil skyward.
Or kill a Gorn. :-)
"Gorn. Gorn -- it's got a sort of *woody* quality about it. Gorn. Go-o-orn. Much better than 'newspaper' or 'litter bin'."
They’ll ban stones and bricks too - those can be used to sharpen. And no more glass or obsidian.
Of course the idiocy is almost anything can sharpened on concrete to make a one time weapon. Everyone has done with popsicle sticks.
they seem to be more concerned about the pointy knives.
Shanks are used all the time in prison. There’s no end to the raw material.
Ban everything that can be sharpened? A fools errand.
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