“A MAN was fatally stabbed after he commented on another man’s hairstyle in an apartment lobby, deputies said.” — Pompano Beach, Fla., Associated Press, Aug. 15, 2004. “A Highland Park man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday for the stabbing death of a woman last year.” — Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2004. “In a statement to police, the mother said she stabbed Kayla in the chest with a foot-long butcher knife.” — Buffalo News, July 20, 2004. The above cases all involved butcher knives and represent just three of many thousands of butcher-knife stabbings that have occurred in...