It was only a matter of time...

[alexpgp]

From the New York Times:

The authors of an editorial in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal have called for knife reform. The editorial, "Reducing knife crime: We need to ban the sale of long, pointed kitchen knives," notes that the knives are being used to stab people as well as roasts and the odd tin of Spam.

It seems obvious, doesn't it, that manufacturing blunt kitchen knives will go a long way toward stemming the the increased rate of violent crime in Britain, which rose nearly 18 percent from 2003 to 2004.

Or will it only result in future calls to make hammers out of Nerf?

Ye gods. What do these people think with?

Cheers...

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

How about designing a kitchen knife with a handle at either end and no point? (As Nilsson observed in The Point,
" A point in every direction is the same as no point at all!")

It would be reasonably difficult to skewer one's neighbour's obnoxious offspring's Significant Other, who might be bashing in your front window, with a blunt object.

Hugs

[grosh.livejournal.com]

I read sometime crime statistics in Russia: too many people were wounded or died by "taburetka" (kind of chair) and by "skovorodka" (heavy kind of roaster plate). Is it right to ban this weapons in Russia?