UK Doctors are calling for kitchen knives ban

[<HELLS^ANGEL>]

If you do stab someone remember to do it in the lung and not in the
heart, so they won't be able to scream for help.

[lynx]

Sorry, Hobbes, I assumed you knew it was an editorial, especially as I posted the link.

I don't fully agree with likening it to the "banning guns" argument. Guns have only one purpose - as a weapon. Kitchen knives are not actually very well suited to that purpose - the handles are all wrong for one thing.

However, I take your point about the psychology of the thing. I was heading in that direction myself when I proposed putting the emphasis on safety when making/selling large knives without the pointed end. "Thou shalt not" often gets the response "wtf has it got to do with you".

If taken up the change won't happen overnight, from the sound of things it could take 20 years for the results to be meaningful. It is difficult to say whether the reduction in stabbings in the home would be measurable over such a long period, given that the incidence can't be all that high at the moment, but I suppose that even a few lives saved for what is really no cost is worthwhile.

[Busyman]

Eliminate the long pointys and you'll have less stabbings.....

....but more slashings.

The slit throats will still be around.

[maebach]

i think its dumb. it'll never work, we need knives for everything with food.

[Money Fist]

and for killing burglars

[Busyman]

and for killing burglars

Exactly. You already don't have guns in the UK. Why not go all out and make everyone use their hands to defend themselves and eliminate the teaching of martial arts too.



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