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Doctors seek kitchen knife ban
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=579102005 ^

Posted on 01/17/2006 1:22:45 PM PST by vrwc0915

Doctors seek kitchen knife ban EDWARD BLACK

Key points • Doctors claim long kitchen knives serve no purpose except as weapons • 55 out of 108 homicide victims in Scotland were stabbed last year • Police superintendents say a ban would be difficult to enforce

Key quote "Many assaults are impulsive, often triggered by alcohol or misuse of other drugs, and the long pointed kitchen knife is an easily available, potentially lethal weapon, particularly in the domestic setting" - Dr Emma Hern, writing in British Medical Journal

(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...


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To: Onelifetogive
Why not just make "alcohol or misuse of other drugs" illegal?

I think an attempt to ban alcohol in Scotland is about the only thing that would really get the population pissed off and in rebellion mood.

41 posted on 01/17/2006 1:31:38 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

LOL.

You can't make this stuff up can you? Exactly how long or short a knife does it take to fatally stab someone? Is it just the point of a knife or the slicing part?

There is probably no end to things that can be used as weapons to kill people if you're that determined to off somebody. How about a sharpened rock lashed to a tree limb? Gonna stop all those? Pick up all the rocks, cut down all the trees?


42 posted on 01/17/2006 1:31:50 PM PST by garyhope (Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
The once proud Scottish people have been reduced to socialist moron sheep.

Aw, they've got plenty of new Muslim friends around to wear the kilts in the Scottish family. ;)

43 posted on 01/17/2006 1:32:00 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: vrwc0915

"Latest figures from the Scottish Executive show that in 2003, 55 of 108 homicide victims were stabbed by a sharp instrument - often a kitchen knife. "

Here is where I quit reading this mindless drivel. Any question as to why? I want to know what the other 48 homicide victims were STABBED with that was not a "sharp instrument." How many people die from a stab wound inflicted by a BLUNT object? See, this is called a beating not a stabbing.


44 posted on 01/17/2006 1:32:12 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (Not today.)
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To: vrwc0915

This is a joke, right. Something from 'The Onion' or a comparable site.


45 posted on 01/17/2006 1:32:31 PM PST by wbill
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To: colorado tanker
These idiots have never cooked anything more complicated than a microwave dinner. Probably don't know what a whole onion looks like.

Remember where we are talking about. They are still boiling everything and the microwave hasn't made it there yet.

46 posted on 01/17/2006 1:32:32 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: vrwc0915

This HAS to be a joke.

Please, tell me it's a joke . . .


47 posted on 01/17/2006 1:32:54 PM PST by cvq3842
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To: vrwc0915

"Doctors claim long kitchen knives serve no purpose except as weapons"

What a bunch of morons! I use a 10" chef's knife for almost all my kitchen cutting chores, from the heaviest cutting job to peeling a carrot. It's razor sharp (I could literally shave with it). It's my food processor.

About the only thing I don't use it for is filetting fish, although I could if necessary.

All my other knives pretty much just sit.


48 posted on 01/17/2006 1:33:42 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: vrwc0915
Key quote "Many assaults are impulsive, often triggered by alcohol or misuse of other drugs, and the long pointed kitchen knife is an easily available, potentially lethal weapon, particularly in the domestic setting" - Dr Emma Hern, writing in British Medical Journal

Then they might as well ban ice picks, long forks, pens, pencils, and anything else that a person in a fit of rage would use to attack another person. Rocks too.

These idiots need to resinstate the death penalty and kill the killers, quickly and send the messagte that it is the behavior that must end, and not the tool. Typical leftist, socialist outcomes to their foolish stances and p[olicies.

49 posted on 01/17/2006 1:33:45 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: vrwc0915
First the knives, next it will b ice-picks.

Fortunately it will take them some time to get around to banning rubber chickens.

50 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:01 PM PST by capt. norm (Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue)
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To: Constitution Day

Henkels make a damn good knife! Mine are a collection of samples as the ex worked at a cutlery place. Seen the real nice ceramic knives? I want them, but they look fake. Deceptively dangerous.


51 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:12 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I'm doing the best I ever did, I'm doing the best that I can, now go away!)
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To: colorado tanker

"Probably don't know what a whole onion looks like".



To say nothing of fileting a flounder.


52 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:16 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (MAY I DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP)
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To: vrwc0915

Wasn't there an Alfred Hitchcock episode where the wife kills her cheating husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then cooks the murder weapon to destroy the evidence. What's next? Outlaw leg of lamb?


53 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:17 PM PST by 6SJ7
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To: vrwc0915

I thought this was from the Onion

What are they going to eat there? Mush?

Usualy weapons and commercial tools treaties and regs are aimed at advancing socialism, ie. you can't be a cook unless government approved coz the tools you use require government licensing.

Also weapons treaties are often shaped by the opponent so as to make sure he is in a favorable terrain in case of "disagreement" aka holocaust. Such treaties thus are meant to favor the type of arms to be restricted that the gov itself is bad at wielding and producing. Because the gov. hires morons which can't fight with knives, usualy it relies on assymetrics which the treaty is to fit.

The box cutter attack on US airliners on 911 (and the disproportionate ridiculous response of having to shoot down 200 people out of the sky coz we are incapable of letting pilots carry guns) are a direct result of such treaties which favor foreign enemies. We can't fight skillfuly with boxcutters, but mooslims know how to slit goats, thus they have the advantage.


54 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:22 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: vrwc0915

did you ever try to cut a ham with a .44? Can't do it.


55 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:23 PM PST by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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To: Maceman

"I guess these medics have never had to chop vegetables for a big meal."

Remember the phrase "all politics is local?"
This is a story from Scotland. They don't eat vegetables, or what they know as "rabbit food."
Highest cholesterol readings on Earth!!!


56 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:28 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: vrwc0915
Scottish Ninjas of death use only Ginsu Knives! And after hard day of violent Scottish Ninja action, it still cuts a tomato!


57 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:34 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: Tenacious 1
Your reading it wrong. 55 or the 108 homicides were by stabbing with a sharp instrument. "Often" the instrument in those 55 murders was a kitchen knife.

I want to know the weapons in the other 53 murders. And since guns are banned over there, clearly none were guns.

58 posted on 01/17/2006 1:34:54 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: MineralMan
I use a 10" chef's knife for almost all my kitchen cutting chores,

Damn, I only have an 8". :(

59 posted on 01/17/2006 1:36:00 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I'm doing the best I ever did, I'm doing the best that I can, now go away!)
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To: TChris
The doors need to be removed, so that their wittle fingers don't get pinched.

And they could climb up on the roof, jump off, and hurt themselves, so we'll need to dispense with that.

I think that the nanny state will not be happy until everyone is living in a foam-padded room.

60 posted on 01/17/2006 1:36:05 PM PST by wbill
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