Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says (UK)

Telegraph ^ | 27 May 18 | Joel Adams

[Pollster1]

You cannot disarm people. What is this judge going to do about someone who attacks you with a pointed stick? Or with fresh fruit?

[null and void]

That’ll solve everything! Until people switch to swords.

If you ax me, swords do not suffice...

[TomGuy]

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]

[seowulf]

Do we have to let them drive us back to the stone-age before we drive them out of power

You know, the stone age was is called the stone age because people used sharp stones to kill each other.

[Kickass Conservative]

What’s next in England, Balsa Wood Cricket Bats?

[Deplorable American1776]

Is this from the Onion?? It seems like it came from The Onion or Mad Magazine...

[HotHunt]

Having listened to this judge's solution to UK's soaring knife crime rate by blunting the tip of sharp knives, don't you wonder, "Who ties his shoelaces for him in the morning?"

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?

[FLT-bird]

How long until they ban sharp sticks?

[ApplegateRanch]

Just cut your hands off! No more crime!

What about elbows, knees, and feet?

Best to cut off the head, just to be certain.