Posted on 05/28/2018 4:54:51 AM PDT by Drew68
A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the countrys 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.
Judge Madge told the assembled judges, barristers and court staff: These offences often seem motiveless - one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.
He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had almost no effect, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
He said: A few of the blades carried by youths are so called Rambo knives or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.
"The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.
"Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.
As a result - said the judge - the most common knife a youth will take out is eight to ten inches, long and pointed, from his mother's cutlery tray.
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Oh thank God....finally a solution to violent crime!
Remember when only mental patients were prohibited from possessing sharp objects? What does that tell you?
The leaders in the free world have an unlimited supply of stupid pills.
Eat your steak with a spoon.
Dumb AF and utterly pointless.
Any idiot who wants to stab someone can just resharpen it on a concrete block
This is satire, right?
This is why we had a revolution in 1776. Nuff said.
AND BALL POINT PENS!
AND PENCILS!
AND SCALPELS! There's no reason why doctors can't operate with butterknives! Or not at all; a burst appendix or two is a small price to pay for DIVERSITY!
I know it. Remember back in the 20th century when we read 1984... We were thinking: "Britain, an oppressed colony? How far fetched that is!"
The Decadence of Western Civilization is truly suicidal!
1. Independence from Britain2. The abolition of hereditary titles
3. The bill of rights, expressly written down and expressly including the right of free speech and the right to bear arms.
Since it worked so well with their gun ban.
Of course all the bad guys will de-sharpen their knives too so it will be a universal ban.
Oh wait! Nope, that won’t work, I know! Let’s make a new law against hurting people with knives. Oh; already have that. I guess we just have to put everyone in a bubble and use them as batteries. Oh; the Matrix already did that too.
Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
If it’s too dangerous to take on a plane or into a prison, why should you be allowed to walk around with it in public? The same standard should apply everywhere.
Any country that glorifies a ridiculous family of overfed inbreds and caresx nothing about the life of an innocent commoner child isn't worth one drop of American blood.
Cut ties with Britain until they get their poop in a group.
Years ago I read that flint knappers in England were still turning out tens of thousands of musket flints for the African trade. Wonder if they could knapp out a few blades for home use.
I still remember 1970, when a Tulsa antiques dealer was arrested by the BATF because he was importing “Military munitions”, musket flints.
Satire has become impossible.
It would be comical if people weren't going to prison.
That’ll solve everything! Until people switch to swords.
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