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Should knives with points be banned?

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OonaStubbs · 22/01/2025 18:12

All the recent attacks have been through stabbing, why not ban pointy knives and just sell knives with rounded ends? Or at least heavily, heavily restrict the sale of pointy knives to those who have a legitimate need for them, have them branded with serial numbers and prevent re-sale etc?

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bifurCAT · 29/01/2025 18:06

Guess I'll have to carve my pumpkin with my nail file.

Greyish2025 · 29/01/2025 17:58

OonaStubbs · 29/01/2025 17:57

Idris Elba agrees that pointy knives should be restricted.
Zombie knife ban won't solve crisis - but there is hope, says Idris Elba - BBC News

Just because an actor thinks it Dosen’t mean it’s actually a good idea….he’s just an actor

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justasking111 · 27/01/2025 00:07

Love the cleaver for splitting swedes.

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 23:17

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 26/01/2025 18:43

Ironically, I use a meat cleaver for stuff like this. I'm a vegan.

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cleavers are good.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 26/01/2025 18:43

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 02:39

how are you going to chop harder vegetables, squashes etc, without a point to start the cutting?

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Ironically, I use a meat cleaver for stuff like this. I'm a vegan.

steff13 · 26/01/2025 02:45

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 02:43

LOOK OUT! he's got a board with a nail in it!
That board with the nail in it may have defeated us but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!

😂

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The Simpsons. Very nice. 😂

steff13 · 26/01/2025 02:43

admirible · 24/01/2025 21:47

I think if the psycho who wants to maim and injure can’t find a pointy knife, they will just use something else instead.

Prisoners do it all the time; they make shivs out of toothbrush handles, soda cans, sharpened metal spoons.

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 02:43

BMW6 · 25/01/2025 22:08

Ban knives and criminals could use pointed sticks. Axes. Clubs.

Guns must stay banned as they can be used at a distance. You have to get really up close to use other weapons - much more "personal", danger of injury to the assailant and of course messy.

The type of knife isn't the problem, it's the carrying. Knives belong in kitchens and workshops, never out in public.

I think much harsher jail time for carrying - I'd say 10 years. If under 18 then Youth Detention until 18 then adult jail.

LOOK OUT! he's got a board with a nail in it!
That board with the nail in it may have defeated us but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!

😂

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 02:39

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

how are you going to chop harder vegetables, squashes etc, without a point to start the cutting?

CrowleyKitten · 26/01/2025 02:37

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 21:50

Banning pointed knives would have very few negative effects. Chefs and other people that have a legitimate need to use them but there would be strict rules about them, just like there is with guns.

people with a legitimate need....
so, anyone that cooks, for a start.
maybe supermarkets should only sell pre-chopped veg. if you grow your own veg, tough. all meat should be sold in bite sized cubes or slices only. ban every hobby that involves sharp points.

takealettermsjones · 25/01/2025 23:59

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 25/01/2025 23:41

It's not a bad idea. I cook loads and barely use the point.

Okay, but off the top of my head, without a point how would you

  • remove the tendon from a chicken fillet
  • pierce potato skins
  • score pastry
  • devein a prawn
  • pit an olive
XenoBitch · 25/01/2025 23:42

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 25/01/2025 23:41

It's not a bad idea. I cook loads and barely use the point.

I barely cook, but do crafts where you need a point.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 25/01/2025 23:41

It's not a bad idea. I cook loads and barely use the point.

Herewegoagain29 · 25/01/2025 23:15

What about scissors? Do we have to have scissors with roundy edges too, like 5 year olds?
What about screwdrivers? Hammers?
Terrorists drive vehicles into people, do we have to get rid of them too?

FallOfTheHouseOfUtterlyButterly · 25/01/2025 23:08

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

But why would chefs be ok but not to cook at home?
Or builders when at work but not to then do DiY at home?
Or crafters who work at home?

DarkDarkNight · 25/01/2025 22:56

I don’t think it’s a stupid suggestion at all. It has been suggested before by doctors and makes sense to me. A knife can be useful for prepping food if it has a sharp blade but the end does not need to be pointy. Anything that makes it harder to use a knife as a weapon is a good thing. Of course the knife could be sharpened to a point if someone wanted to go to the time and effort to do that. But taking away the point which causes so much damage and replacing it with a wider rounded tip makes it harder to do that initial breaking of skin.

Link to an old article, but there are more recent arguments for this out there.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/27/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation#:~:text=Writing%20in%20the%20British%20Medical,banned%20without%20unduly%20inconveniencing%20cooks.

ArtTheClown · 25/01/2025 22:44

Surely anything that reduces stabbing deaths is worth a try?

They could try policing again I suppose. And not have derisory prison sentences.

Scammersarescum · 25/01/2025 22:42

justasking111 · 22/01/2025 18:28

I bought two bread knives from a website Xmas presents. No questions asked.

You can kill with chisels, screwdrivers too.

This, you can't ban all pointy things

XenoBitch · 25/01/2025 22:38

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

You do realise you can still kill someone with a sharp edge? And you can stab someone with most blunt items given enough force.

takealettermsjones · 25/01/2025 22:37

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

Yes, you've said this. The problem is that the sharp pointy ends of sharp pointy knives are used daily by many millions of people to prepare food.

Rachie1973 · 25/01/2025 22:34

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

Do you cook?

All my knives have pointy ends, even my little peeling knife, I use the pointy bit to dig any eyes out. The pointed bit is an intrinsic part of the design. That’s why it’s pointed.

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OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 22:29

It would only be pointy knives that would be banned. Knives with sharp edges but rounded points would still be allowed.

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XenoBitch · 25/01/2025 22:26

Pebbles16 · 25/01/2025 22:22

Errr... I need my sharp pointy knives to cook food for my family. PLUS, can you imagine recalling all the knives?
Madness

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How would that work anyway? There are amnesty box type things out there now already. They would fill up in minutes if everyone had to surrender anything other than butter knives.

Pebbles16 · 25/01/2025 22:22

OonaStubbs · 25/01/2025 21:50

Banning pointed knives would have very few negative effects. Chefs and other people that have a legitimate need to use them but there would be strict rules about them, just like there is with guns.

Errr... I need my sharp pointy knives to cook food for my family. PLUS, can you imagine recalling all the knives?
Madness