We could just have a functioning mental health system.
Has she never cooked anything?
Working with meat especially.
You can’t ban all useful things that can also be used as weapons. It’s too many. New ones are invented as you read this. You gonna forbid baseball bats? Bricks? Tree branches? Tools? This can’t work.
You gotta draw the line at things that have been created to be used as a weapon.
Exactly, kitchen knives are used because they’re readily available.
Screwdrivers can be used to stab just as effectively.
However, I have a solution. Make the handles gay rainbow coloured. No self respecting gang member is going to carry a batty knife.
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lol, they’ll just paint them in gangsta ninja colors 😄
Ban paint
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487762/Butter-knife-an-offensive-weapon.html
Butter knife ‘an offensive weapon’
14 April 2005 • 12:01am
A butter knife can be an offensive weapon, the High Court ruled yesterday.
The decision came in the rejection of an appeal by Charlie Brooker, of Welling, Kent, who had been convicted under the Criminal Justice Act of carrying a bladed instrument.
Mark Hardie, appearing for Brooker, argued that the knife had no handle, sharp edges or points and therefore could not fall foul of a law intended to protect people from dangerous weapons.
But Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice David Steel, disagreed. He said: “I would accept that a sharp or pointed blade was the paradigm case - however the words of the statute are unqualified and refer to any article that has a blade.”
Fishing hooks. Knitting pins. BIC razors out of their plastic housing god forbid.
I wonder how they think these "articles " should be regulated along with butter knives? Bonkers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pick
Because of its availability and ability to puncture the skin easily, the ice pick has sometimes been used as a weapon. Most notoriously, New York’s organized crime groups known as Murder Incorporated made extensive use of the ice pick as a weapon during the 1930s and 1940s.[4][5] There were up to 1,000 murders committed by this group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hammer_assaults
NANTES, France (AFP) - A crowbar was the murder weapon in a French family drama that left four people dead in an inheritance dispute over gold coins, the prosecutor of the western city of Nantes…
Why are we not talking about the very dangerous and still not qualified chopsticks?
Anyone can go from eating or tying up their hair to stab other in the eye and kill them.
#allUtensilsMatter
Stick one of those in a pencil sharpener and look out, world
Ban pencil sharpeners. And pencils. And pens too, I’m sure Peter Sutcliffe would agree.
Annie strode confidently past the metal detector with her undetectable shiv.
Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD proved that.
How am I supposed to stab meat in order to cut it?
It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives
No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed. Otherwise it’s a gimmick that just inconveniences.
No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.
She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.
It is literally impossible for anyone to make a blunt tip sharp in a few minutes, so that checks out.
If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.
Like in a Taylor Swift dance class?
Leanne Lucas, 36, was critically injured in the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class she was leading during last year’s school summer holidays.
There are a ton of things in a kitchen where a point is needed to cut things. Requiring the blunts to be dull means a lot of home sharpening so the knives are useful in the kitchen. Her emotional reaction is valid, but the proposed solution is stupid.
Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.
The article is about a victim of the Southport attack advocating for dull kitchen knives in the kitchen.
“When this idea about the blunt-tip knives came in I just thought: this is a no-brainer, I don’t understand why our kitchen isn’t safer in the first place,” she said.
I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It’s performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won’t stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife. Or I could grab a dozen other dangerous things in the kitchen, line hitting them with a frying pan. Should we make frying pans soft now?
Yes, would-be mass murderers everywhere will be deterred by the fact that knives will no longer come pre-pointed. Society will be saved!
It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.
You can stab someone to death with a blunt-tipped knife, it’s just going to hurt more and do more tearing damage.
Would you like to explain HOW it would reduce deaths? Because no would-be mass murderer would ever sharpen a knife or, just, pick up another weapon?
Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?
You’re dodging the question. HOW would this reduce deaths?
You all should ban screwdrvers and hammers and wrenches and cricket bats and especially blunted knives, sure it might inconvenience some people, but think of the chance of saving lives???
Just make them out of softer material, like cork.
hammers
softer material, like cork.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clwwn7x4j9yo
A man who attacked his ex-partner over the head with a rubber mallet in front of their two young children has been jailed for life for her murder.
Yeah, rubber mallets are still dangerous. That can be fixed with a sizeable donation to my prospective campaign fund.
If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.
Make sure you ban all rocks and sticks, too!!!
You guys are out here acting like stick crime is a joke and it’s fucking disgusting
From a pair of stilettos to a jar of gherkins, photographer captures bizarre objects used to kill
What was the Sheriff of Nottingham doing in St Albans?
RIP AR
Everything is a potential weapon.
Yes, we should also remove the edges from all knives, much safer this way. Probably a bit inconvenient to some chefs but who cares about preparing food right
Inconvenience some chefsmaking cooking difficult to impossible.
