UK Doctors are calling for kitchen knives ban

[Money Fist]

LMAO
iv got a kitchen knife with a scratched off serial number

[bigboab]

LMAO
iv got a kitchen knife with a scratched off serial number

[MCHeshPants420]

Makes sense to someone as annoying as myself. Having said that, my girlfriend would probably use something blunt (like an ashtray) to prolong the pain.

[sArA]

If 'they; have their way, we will only be allowed those silly plastic knives and forks that wobble and break when any form of pressure is applied.

Oh no, we can't have that can we? The breaking plasic might splinter and shoot into someone's eye causing blindness, or if a shard was to enter the brain...perhaps even death....so we all have to wear safety glasses whilst preparing and eating too.....

While we are at it...how about nice cotton wool suits to wrap us all up in?

[Money Fist]

i have heard too many storys about girlfriends stabbing their boyfriends in domestic distributes
soo if there is a ban im blaming the girls

[Arm]

How about they ask knife manufactures to stop making them and selling them in kitchen knife packs if they are of little use?

[Busyman]

It was sugested by a rich doctor who probably never cook for themselves.

What's so unreasonable? No one needs a kitchen knife for utility
purposes. Kitchen knives are designed to cut pieces of flesh in quick succession
with razor sharp or serrated blades. Blades that can kill a police officer before
he can draw his club. There is no need for these dangerous weapons to be on
our streets. Kitchen knives should be licensed and registered with serial numbers
only to people like chefs that actually need to have them.

....but...but..but,,,kitchen knives are designed for cutting food. That makes the difference.

[MagicNakor]

It was sugested by a rich doctor who probably never cook for themselves.

What's so unreasonable? No one needs a kitchen knife for utility
purposes. Kitchen knives are designed to cut pieces of flesh in quick succession
with razor sharp or serrated blades. Blades that can kill a police officer before
he can draw his club. There is no need for these dangerous weapons to be on
our streets. Kitchen knives should be licensed and registered with serial numbers
only to people like chefs that actually need to have them.

So, the rest of us have to frequent carry-outs?

[lynx]

Next thing we will have chefs telling us we don't need razor blades, and the only people who need anything so small and sharp are surgeons with their scalpels.

It's a conspiracy I tell ya.

[hobbes]

Part 1


The UK has banned handguns for exactly this safety reason, so why are you not supporting banning long knives?

It seems that when people get drunk and argue, this becomes the weapon of choice in the UK versus the multitude of firearms we have here in the US. Rather than goring the person through and through with a 14 inch knife, the author would prefer a superficial puncture wound from a government issued spork*.

The premise of the author is that these long knives HAVE NO FUNCTION in the kitchen that cannot be carried out by smaller knives.

My question is about psychology and logic.

Guns and Long knives have NO FUNCTION other than to induce injury. Long knives and guns tend to escalate the consequences of drunken confrontations.

What logic separates the overwhelming response that removing large knives is ridiculous, but people shouldn't be allowed to have handguns.

To a citizen of the US, removing guns would be considered "nannying". It is a ll a matter of perspective.

This leads to the next issue of psychology.

Guns in the US have a very integral role in the establishment and development of our country. They are sort of engrained in the fabric of our nation. When we make moves to tell people that guns no longer have a use as the Indians aren't going to attack, property can be "defended" with insurance and every citizen is offered the protection of a police force, people respond very negatively.

I think that something that has always been there becomes engrained in our perception of the world and an inalienable right. If one were to look at the question of gun control from a foreign perspective (such as the UK), they can easily see the logic that removing all the guns would be a good idea.

So is it really the psychology that people have always had whatever length kitchen knife they wanted and it is an instinctive response to retain these knifes or is there something intrinsically different between removing long pointy useless knifes and the removal of handguns.

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