Bloody Knives Sharp and Pointy?!

[woodrat]

I just got a copy of Gun Tests and on the first page it states "three emergency room doctors have suggested in the pages of the British Medical Journal that a rise of stabbing attacks could be cured by ... banning the sale of kitchen knives with pointed ends.

Such points have no culinary use, but they sometimes inflict fatal wounds in the course of domestic arguments, the authors argue. I am not making this up. Because the average life of pointed kitchen knives is ten years, it would be some time before such a policy could reduce stabbings, unless draconian confiscations were put in place - like those used in gun roundups several years ago.

The authors mention that Louis XIV forbade pointed knives at table to avoid fatal solutions to drunken squabbles. I think it is only fitting that a country that took away its citizens' guns shoud have to eat its steaks with butter knives."

 

[mymindisamob]

Water is wet and Fire is hot, sheeple will change what they understand not.

 

[TIR]

Water is wet and Fire is hot, sheeple will change what they understand not.

Very well put. I am sorry to hear that your country doesn't understand the real problem. What's next no screwdrivers?

 

[KnifeAddictAK]

So you just have Jerry slightly modify the NICK and you're all set. Or just have him make a U shaped blade sharpened on both sides

 

[Cyan]

Hell in Poland they try that too from time to time, when someone gets stabbed the panic factor rises extremly and our incredible politicians speak about forbidding carrying knives and such... And I sh*t you not - the even wanted to ban head hoods... [you know, the ones that often special forces wear - not quite sure how is it called in english]

 

[Desert Dan]

I read about a similiar thing about the British doctors wanting to ban kitchen knives in Tactical Knives. Unbelievable.
Cyan, the special forces head hoods that you are thinking of are called balaclavas in English. Sad to see that someone would want to ban those.

Dan

 

[Cyan]

balaclavas indeed! what a terrible hangover I had, I can barely remember writing those posts
Especially that this little thingie is outstanding in winter... Never understimate the might of the stupidity... We already have guns banned, forget about using your ASP or Monadnock, you can get to jail for stopping a thief since this would be illegal seizure... Damn, Monty Python still alive in Poland