Should knives with points be banned?

We use pointed knives on the bar to cut the fruit up
It would be ridiculous to have to licence everyone for that but make it incredibly hard to only licence some

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.

Don't be daft

There's domestic kitchens and amateur cooks across the UK. We use pointed knives, have a lethal set of sushi knives.

It takes months to get a gun license. Do you really expect the police, doctors , to handle the amount of paperwork producing a knife license would produce?

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I don’t think you are the brightest

So, a chef could use a knife in work, but not at home? Ridiculous.

Surely anything that reduces stabbing deaths is worth a try?

Well, no, not anything.

You could reduce stabbing deaths by enforcing a nationwide curfew, no one exits their house apart from delivery drivers and healthcare practitioners, everyone works from home and online dating and shopping are now mandatory.

But that would clearly be ridiculous. So we draw the line somewhere.

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

This has to be one of the stupidest OPs ever. Is it even serious? Should we also ban cars so nobody can get run over?

I have seen videos of people who bite and chew instead of cutting veg. Probably fine if you are only preparing food for you... but for other people... ugh, gross!

I was a high risk missing person that was in MH crisis. You get searched when found.

Just bite it and chew it.

Stop overcomplicating your dinner.

Maybe we should legalise drugs that may stop a lot of crime.

How would I chop my veg?

Because they will just slash someone rather than stab. A slash across the neck will have the same effect as stabbing someone to death, they die

I bought one from a tool shop to use in my garden.

Glad I'm not in the UK anymore as I often forget to take my Stanley knife out of my pocket when I leave work so often carrying one.

They actually make knives in 7th grade metalwork where I am. Dunno if it's a pointy end one (as DD didn't want to make one)but probably as our traditional knives always have pointed ends and I expect they'd make traditional knives.

The Stupid! It Burns!

We all have knives, machetes, axes, weird crap in our lofts and sheds that we've all forgotten about. We could ban knives now but there's about a century's-worth of stabby stuff in all our homes.

Perhaps convincing humans that their, and other people's lives are worth something is the answer.

If anything was going to convince me that we are all getting stupider this suggestion is it.

If machetes are banned, where are they sourcing them from, Amazon, eBay? What is the punishment if you are caught with one?

@UnstableEquilibrium
Those tomato knives are great for all sorts of things. We use them to cut cake as well. Did you know you can get a folding one for picnics? Not sure about the legality of taking it out though as the blade above the legal maximum and it locks.

They did in September 2024.

They should ban machetes.

Pretty sure you could sharpen that and do some damage! You can also slit someone's throat quite nicely with a knife with rounded end I'd imagine!

Pretty sure this idea will not save the world!!! Back to the drawing board OP!!

Well, except that knives are multi-purpose and the function of guns is to kill things (aside from bashing clays with shotguns, and target shooting with rifles and handguns). You don't need a gun in your kitchen, but you do need a knife...