UK: Reducing knife crime, We need to ban the sale of long pointed kitchen knives

British Medical Journal ^ | 05/28/05 | editorial

[frogjerk]

UK: Reducing knife crime, We need to ban the sale of long pointed kitchen knives,

Blunt objects and human hands will be banned next...

[jimt]

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.

[from occupied ga]

We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect.

Inevitably the word "sensible" from a prohibitionist is followed by the most idiotic ideas imaginable. I wonder do these people have their brains sucked out at birth or do their delusions of adequacy come from excessive use of recreational chemicals?

[Mr. Lucky]

The government will eventually ban eating utensils and establish a new civil service to chew people's food for them.

[MarkeyD]

I've thought baseball bats, hell, the whole game should have been outlawed years ago.

[SunnySide]

Kitchen knifes now, ping pong paddles next.

Will the insanity ever stop?

The apes are in control Mr. Heston

[Phantom Lord]

What about the melon baller crisis in Britain?

Its worse than you think. Undergound and in back rooms they are referred to as "gougers."

[Polyxene]

I had to double-check the source! I thought this was from Scrappleface! Un-freakin'-believable! What's next? Nail files? Attack of the manicurists!

[RexBeach]

Yup, on the level alright.

So, how's about banning automobiles? Those things kill thousands of people annually.

Good Lord Almighty, when does this kind of thinking cease?

This proposal makes about as much sense as blaming rain on wet streets.

Cheesh.

[Stultis]

"Pointed stick kitchen knives? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed stick kitchen knives, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh?

[EggsAckley]

They'll have to pry my Henckels out of my cold, dead fingers.

[massgopguy]

"When Butcher knives are outlawed, only Butchers will have knives"

Mandatory Cooking School for people who want thses knives in their kitchens.

[Uncle Fud]

Potential felon, armed and dangerous.....

[River_Wrangler]

Think of the havoc you could create if you had a knife and an SUV!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kind of like the Department of Pre-crime.

[FYREDEUS]

Geebus H. Soupfig! :-(

I'm not sure whether this is more stupidity than insanity...or more insanity than stupidity...or perhaps equal [and quite incomprehensible] measures of both...but it is SO sad to see how far the once-free people of no-longer-Great Britain have fallen...:'-(

[Dionysius]

Another asinine case of "it's the weapon, not the perp."
What's next -- nerf hammers or pillows with emergency air supplies.

[Lazamataz]

As knives are so readily available, does a culinary reason exist for so many domestic knives to be of the dagger variety?

Britain has gone totally, merrily, insane.

[Lazamataz]

As knives are so readily available, does a culinary reason exist for so many domestic knives to be of the dagger variety?

Britain has gone totally, merrily, insane.

[Lazamataz]

First they came for our guns. Then they came for our sharp, pointy objects. Next person suffocated the'll come for our pillows. And, oh yeah, our cars (CO2, ya know). Oh, and our safes in upper floors. Dang, it's becoming harder and harder to off someone in today's world.

The minute they banned guns, the murder rate in England went to zero.

The minute they ban knives, the murder rate in England will go to zero, again.