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 country’s 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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You cannot disarm people. What is this judge going to do about someone who attacks you with a pointed stick? Or with fresh fruit?
If you ax me, swords do not suffice...
Make it that people will need permits and background checks to purchase any type of knife. Background checks work so well against gun purchasers. [/s]
You know, the stone age was is called the stone age because people used sharp stones to kill each other.
What’s next in England, Balsa Wood Cricket Bats?
Is this from the Onion?? It seems like it came from The Onion or Mad Magazine...
Ban the sale of large, pointed kitchen knives?
Why not start with universal background checks to purchase the knives?
Next, require every law-abiding knife owner to file the sharp tips off of their knives.
And then down the road, ban them from everybody's kitchen's for safety's sake?
Sound familiar?
How long until they ban sharp sticks?
What about elbows, knees, and feet?
Best to cut off the head, just to be certain.
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