Major UK Retailer Bans Kitchen Knife Sales in Answer to Violent Crime Wave

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[davikkm]

Britain’s Poundland discount chain has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives in all of its stores to help tackle soaring youth violence. The company, whose stores have been a major fixture on UK high streets since 1990, is the first major retailer to go ahead with the anti-knife measure recently recommended by a judge, and other brands are expected to follow suit, according to the Birmingham Mail.

As of Friday, kitchen knives are no longer available at any of its 59 West Midlands branches, Poundland said, noting that the ban will be extended to all 850 UK stores by the end of the year.

Reportedly suffering “epidemic” levels of violence, the West Midlands has the fastest growing rate of knife crime outside London, where the company banned blade sales in April after the capital saw 35 deadly stabbings in the just first few months of 2018.

[davikkm]

Ah yes. Let’s pretend it’s the knives stabbing people on their own. In the real world, knives and guns are just tools. People are the killers. Specifically, Islamic people are the killers.

[lurk]

Knives don’t kill people; muslins kill people.

[Professional]

You are a pointy thing apologist and a racist!

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Next up: pointy scissors.

[manc]

The West has become insane.

[Big Red Badger]

BLOAT!

Oh wait....

[blueunicorn6]

They’ll have to stop selling rocks, too.

[ichabod1]

How is one to cut one’s meat if one doesn’t have any knives? Gee, I hope none of the criminals knows how to sharpen a shiv!

[Rio]

Cricket bats next?

[Rio]

How is one to cut one’s meat if one doesn’t have any knives?

Let them eat cake!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Soft foods only from now on..........

[American in Israel]

Just dont sell them to Muslims or other migrants, this is not Englishmen.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

They probably will want to ban this knife...

[existentially_kuffer]

The stupidity of rabid socialism. People are provoked by things, as though knives have a shiny attraction. Duh!

[Rurudyne]

Yep. No Muslims, no worries.

Got Muslims, eventually you’ve got problems.

[BlueLancer]

I hope not ... as I work on a military installation (and thereby forbidden to have anything “real” to defend myself with), my pitching wedge and my stepson’s cricket bat are my only defensive weapons ...

[American in Israel]

Nope not a racist, the Islamic empire spans many races, has a deathcultophobe.

[aquila48]

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

What about forks? You can stab someone with a fork too.