British Medical Experts Campaign for Long, Pointy Knife Control

[maximus otter]

Warning: Long, pointy knives may be hazardous to your health.

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.

The authors of the essay called for laws requiring knife manufacturers to redesign their wares with rounded, blunt tips.

Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which supports gun control, joked, "Can sharp stick control be far behind?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/science/27knife.html

maximus otter

 

[underaged!]

... that's sad.

 

[TLM]

Funny if this logic is followed you are back to to BC before you know it, most hand tools can be used as "weapons" if needed, and look at chainsaws terrible, not to speak of cars and with a bus you can kill 50 people at one time, hey that's a WMD!

I'll visit the Isles in a few years to see how you fare in he caves.

TLM

There ought to be a law against stupidity but where would we get all the politicians then??

 

[Ken C.]

Moving to Knife Laws Forum.

 

[Johnny50]

I just read the article, and the thought is simply outrageous. Whats next, dull blades?

Soon they will be campaigning for a ban on hunting, and after that that all meat be processed into little cubes in the slaughterhouses so that there will then be no need for knives at all. Its a solution where there is no problem, and one that seeks to convert everyone into sheeple. When you remove one inanimate object that can be used as a weapon (just about anything), the person using it will simply move to a next, this is why I believe that knife violence has gone up in britain: their gun laws. If not knives, then pipes, bats and forks. All this will lead to is a society in which people eventually will have no power to choose and do things on their own, and they will simply be mindless consumers of pre-packeged goods.

 

[Jeff Clark]

People assault other people with what they have handy. They will use knives, bottles, ashtrays, fire place pokers, dishes, lamps, fists, feet and even gravity (they throw people down stairs etc). The only way to reduce assaults to zero is to restrain them in padded cells and keep them wrapped in straight jackets. Even then there is some danger (I think of Hannibal in the Silence of the Lambs).

It reminds me of a religious group (Theosophists) in San Diego back in the early part of the 20th century. They had boarding schools and they were worried about the students developing sensuous ways through self stimulations. The sleeping halls were open and arranged to radiate like the spokes of a wheel out from a counseller's station. He could watch the kids all night. Just to be sure that things were under control they wrapped the kids in "health bands" as sleeping attire. The health bands were straight jackets. As an added measure they kept the kids on meager low protein diets to suppress development of sensuous impulses. The kids would routinely faint during morning assemblies. Hey, it worked.

 

[Boink]

This subject was noted in today's NY post edition. The creative headline read: Brits take stab at knife ban.

In it, they claim that over 50% of stabbings have been with the long knives. Guess what? Soon, over 50% of the stabbing will be with short knives.