Has she never cooked anything?
Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped
Submitted 2 months ago by dwazou@lemm.ee to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Working with meat especially.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lol, they’ll just paint them in gangsta ninja colors 😄
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
telegraph.co.uk/…/Butter-knife-an-offensive-weapo…
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.”
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 months ago
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.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hammer_assaults
straitstimes.com/…/french-family-of-four-was-batt…
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…
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stick one of those in a pencil sharpener and look out, world
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Annie strode confidently past the metal detector with her undetectable shiv.
snaprails@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Ban pencil sharpeners. And pencils. And pens too, I’m sure Peter Sutcliffe would agree.
frazorth@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD proved that.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
How am I supposed to stab meat in order to cut it?
ladel@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives
rjek@feddit.uk 2 months ago
No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed. Otherwise it’s a gimmick that just inconveniences.
ladel@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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???
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 months ago
Just make them out of softer material, like cork.
ladel@feddit.uk 2 months ago
If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.
j4yt33@feddit.org 2 months ago
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
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
We could just have a functioning mental health system.