Kitchen knives most common stabbing weapon as police reveal haul of 200 weapons seized in blitz

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 05/29/08 | Daily Mail Reporter

[TornadoAlley3]

[Sacajaweau]

At last....The government will take all our knives and we can gnaw on our steak like cavemen!!

[Doohickey]

That looks like something out a SNL skit.

[LaineyDee]

I hate buttering my toast with a spoon. So messy.

[catman67]

If they take our knives, can forks be far behind??

[Thommas]

Guns, knives, batons (sticks,) pens & pencils, karate lessons. Ban all forms of self-defense. It’s for their own good..

[Humble Servant]

I bet that by noon today, some damn Senator will propose legislation to ban “semiautomatic” electric carving knives.

[cspackler]

What about the pointed stick?

[Brilliant]

Can we devise regulations that require manufacturers to design kitchen knives so that they can’t be used to stab people? Maybe if we required the points to be blunt... And made it illegal to modify them to make them pointy.

[Ezekiel]

Kitchen knives most common stabbing weapon as police reveal haul of 200 weapons seized in blitz

I thought it read, "Kitchen knives most common stabbing weapon as police reveal haul of 200 weapons seized in blintz ". Phewww, that could have spelled trouble for the famished.

[Brilliant]

“200 weapons have been seized”

Must be difficult to cook in those homes. Might have to settle on frozen dinners.

[WarToad]

It’s about high time the Government protect us and regulate kitchen knives!!!

REGULATE KITCHEN KNIVES!!!!

[12Gauge687]

How about hedge-trimmers?

[driftdiver]

Its called a quarterstaff and they were once quite popular in England. perhaps its time to start a new business.

[BipolarBob]

When we outlaw knives, only outlaws will have knives.

They can have my sharp knife when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

[DustyMoment]

Look out, England - the Nanny Stater MPs are about to ban kitchen knives as well as other weapons you might use to defend yourself from murderers and other criminals.

Let us know how not being able to defend yourselves is workin’ out for you!!

[Sacajaweau]

It's the spoons I'm worried about...Oh dear...And the knife ran away with the spoon.

I knew there was an subliminal message in that ditty.... "Hide your knives AND SPOONS".

[4yearlurker]

Looks like a photo after a prison sweep of the cells. The Brits are living in their own prison.

Scissors,razors and garden shears..you’re next!

[DieHard the Hunter]

> The most common knife used in teenage stabbings is taken from the kitchen, Sir Ian Blair has said.

This is entirely consistent with what our NZ Guardian Angels Patrols see in our streets. Lots of kitchen knives. Also short handsaws of the sort used to say gib-board (I think you lot call it wallboard or gyproc?) Plenty of improvised weapons, too.