Ameliorating Knife Crime

[Gyakuto]

“Not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them, that sounds like a crazy thing to say,” told Idris Elba to BBC Radio 4. “But you can still prepare and cut your food without the point on your knife, which is an innovative way to look at it.”Idris Elba proposes removing kitchen knife points to curb stabbing deaths

I heard a top chef (Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall) saying he uses the tip of his preparation knives a very small proportion of the time and if doing away with them saves a single life, then he would support the idea. As an ‘amateur food preparer’ (cutting sandwiches in half, mainly ) I can’t remember ever using the point of my knife, so why have them?

No doubt you’ve all spotted the flaw in this argument, hinted at in this video which is about the knife edge.

What do you think?

 

[Ivan]

“Not all kitchen knives need to have a point on them, that sounds like a crazy thing to say,” told Idris Elba to BBC Radio 4. “But you can still prepare and cut your food without the point on your knife, which is an innovative way to look at it.”Idris Elba proposes removing kitchen knife points to curb stabbing deaths

I heard a top chef (Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall) saying he uses the tip of his preparation knives a very small proportion of the time and if doing away with them saves a single life, then he would support the idea. As an ‘amateur food preparer’ (cutting sandwiches in half, mainly ) I can’t remember ever using the point of my knife, so why have them?
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No doubt you’ve all spotted the flaw in this argument, hinted at in this video which is about the knife edge.

What do you think?

I really don't see how this would help. I highly doubt that knife crime tends to be committed with kitchen knives. It is extremely easy to acquire Balisongs, Zombie knives, pocket knives, in the UK. I own a Lansky World legal knife, a pocket knife designed to be legal to own and carry in as many countries as possible (including the UK).

 

[Gyakuto]

I really don't see how this would help. I highly doubt that knife crime tends to be committed with kitchen knives.

In the U.K., 25% of attacks are with kitchen knives. They’re easier to acquire for youths, who are the main culprit and they’re very cheap.

It is extremely easy to acquire Balisongs, Zombie knives, pocket knives, in the UK.

Really? Balisong? Yes, pocket knives but I think zombie knife sales are being heavily clamped down upon due to their adverse publicity and rightly so.

I own a Lansky World legal knife, a pocket knife designed to be legal to own and carry in as many countries as possible (including the UK).

You’d better watch this-

Do you have a good reason to carry it in public, or an excuse?

 

[O'Malley]

In the U.K., 25% of attacks are with kitchen knives. They’re easier to acquire for youths, who are the main culprit and they’re very cheap.

Really? Balisong? Yes, pocket knives but I think zombie knife sales are being heavily clamped down upon due to their adverse publicity and rightly so.

You’d better watch this-

Do you have a good reason to carry it in public, or an excuse?

I suspect that one would likewise need a good reason to carry a kitchen knife in public.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Jesus Christ, next you will need permission to take off your mittens. Why do you need to have bare hands? Do you have a permit for those finger nails? Living in nanny land sounds very unappealing.

 

[Buka]

In the U.K., 25% of attacks are with kitchen knives. They’re easier to acquire for youths, who are the main culprit and they’re very cheap.

Really? Balisong? Yes, pocket knives but I think zombie knife sales are being heavily clamped down upon due to their adverse publicity and rightly so.

You’d better watch this-

Do you have a good reason to carry it in public, or an excuse?

That “you better watch this” video, I’m keeping that for when I can’t sleep and really need to. That man had me snoring it three minutes.