Ungland... Right!!! Well then... henceforth, all things sharp will be banned, and all things pointy shall also be banned, and anything that is sharp AND pointy is right out!!!
Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
“They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.”
They don’t need them in the OR in the UK either. Most surgery is too expensive for the NHS budget nowadays.
I saw an article a few years back that said England engineers had perfected a round tipped knife to prevent stabbings.
Don’t forget the chainsaw! The greatest close coontact weapon of all time!
The Saxons and other Nordic peoples were characterized by a knife called the "seax" or "scramaseax", meaning "broken-backed blade". It was a utility blade with an inward curving tip...a basic blade for farm chores and any uses requiring a knife, but the unique tip functioned much like a reverse tanto...reinforced the tip for punching thru armor.
.jpg)
If you were a free man in Saxon England and other Nordic countries you were required to bear this knife, strapped across your waist, not only identifying you as a free man and a Saxon but showing you were in obedience to your king or your chief, being prepared to join him in defending the land at any time.
Isn't it ironic that a country whose forebears were called "the people of the knife", who were ordered by their rulers to wear the knife to show themselves as free English people, now cannot be trusted with a knife to cut their meat?
BTW the above knife is on my wish list...since our socialist civilization has labeled people with conservative values as backward and barbarian, I might just take it as my sign that I'm a free backward barbarian.
There will be a run on scissors. Which is very dangerous.
“They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.”
Ok, let’s try a little logic here. You ban the steak knives, and what happens in the next “impulse” situation? Do they look for a weapon of opportunity, find no steak knife, and then decide they’d better settle their dispute without violence? Or is it more likely that they will just grab a cricket bat, a beer bottle, or a claw hammer that is laying around, instead of the steak knife which isn’t?
All you’ve got to do is watch a Jackie Chan movie to learn that nearly anything can be turned into a deadly weapon, if someone wants to use it as such. We can’t possibly ban the “all too available” weapons that surround us.
Ban bench grinders, too....
Ban baseball bats.