English Judge Says Solution to Knife Crime is to Remove the Point

Ammoland ^ | 3 June, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

A British judge is proposing that all knives in the country have the points filed off.  You do not really need pointy knives, he says, and they are causing all the knife crime.

The parallels to the push to ban guns in the UK are unmistakable. From telegraph.co.uk:

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

In the past two months, he said, there have been 77 knife-related incidents in Bedfordshire, including three killings.

Does he really believe these young warriors, defending their honor and their turf, as they see it, will be deterred from having effective weapons because they may need to file a point back on a knife?

Does he completely miss the availability of steel, hard plastic, files, belt sanders, brass, bronze, copper, aluminum, or even flint and glass?

[marktwain]

Knives are easily made. Points are easily replaced on metal knives.

[DaveA37]

“A British judge.......”

Another “brilliant” judge who lives in a fantasy world.

[C210N]

Leave the blade, leave the point.

Just remove the handle. Then, the bad guys won’t even be able to pick it up to use it.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Boy these Brits are getting more stupid. Currently they can only take a knife to a gun fight, now they want to take a pointless knife to a gun fight. Good luck with that!!

[rarestia]

Any violent crime committed with a knife puts the attacker in such proximity that a baseball/cricket bat, an axe, a hammer, or fists would be equally lethal. These liberal morons just don’t get it. They really, truly don’t understand that this isn’t an implement problem, it’s a people/culture problem.

[sevlex]

Apparently the good judge has never hear the term “Slashing”.

Geez, these people are stupid.

[dblshot]

Yep, pointless solution.

[mistfree]

These judges really are a special kind of stupid aren’t they?

[RatRipper]

Weapons control idiots refuse to understand that the root of the problem is the lack of morality caused by the Commie leftist relentless attack on Christianity. Restore Christian-based morality and the problem largely goes away.

[CodeToad]

The English are morons.

[Lurker]

A more workable solution is to simply require that every Brit eat nothing but soup. That would head off the coming “fork crime” problem.

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[Gamecock]

A lot of people are educated far beyond their intelligence.

[null and void]

I believe the judge missed the point.

[tennmountainman]

Leave the blade. Leave the point.
Remove the Muslims.

[Beagle8U]

” You do not really need pointy knives, he says, and they are causing all the knife crime.”

Yup, and everyone knows that straight razors are harmless.

[BlueLancer]

Any violent crime committed with a knife puts the attacker in such proximity that a baseball/cricket bat, an axe, a hammer, or fists would be equally lethal.

Because of where I work .. on a military installation .. I am not allowed to keep a weapon here for self-protection.

I keep my pitching wedge next to my desk, in the event that I have some time during lunch to go out into the field behind my office to practice my short game ...

I have, on a wall-mount above my desk, the cricket bat that my Australian son used in match play to score the winning runs...

It may not be a firearm, but if I can get near enough to an attacker ...

[SandRat]

http://knife-expert.com/sailor.txt

[BlueLancer]

A more workable solution is to simply require that every Brit eat nothing but soup. That would head off the coming “fork crime” problem.

Sorry, but the handle of a spoon can be ground down to a point ... you will have to drink your soup straight out of the bowl.

[Sacajaweau]

People will go to using screw drivers which is even easier to plunge.

[Sacajaweau]

Let’s get rid of “bad people”. Anyone ever think of that?