Should knives with points be banned?

Stricter controls for ordering online, yes.
Quite shocking he wasn't asked for ID.
I get id'ed in Tesco buying butter knives, paracetamol& energy drinks(they don't make me show it but they have to authorise it on the til)

I can't help thinking that this is going to be yet another of those things that makes things much more difficult for everyday law-abiding folk going about their mundane business, whilst having no effect on the violent criminals, who will always find a way.

After all, various dangerous drugs are not just restricted but illegal, and loads of determined people don't seem to have much trouble getting hold of them.

I think the thing that gets me is that it's purely going on age and nothing else. Nobody is bothered about whether somebody who wants to buy a knife is a violent psycho seeking to kill people (if this can/could be known in advance) or just somebody who wants to prepare food - there's no distinction made.

Even with the new changes that are going to be made to the law, if this man simply waited a few months, he would be perfectly fine - as though a knife criminal is only ever going to be 17 or under, whilst knife criminals aged 18 and over simply couldn't exist or pose any kind of threat.

You can use anything to stab if you use enough force.

The issue is not the availability of knives... the issue is why young people feel the need to carry them.

We used to buy all our cook's knives from TK Maxx in store ... they stopped selling them about 18 months ago.

@Mansionscoldandgrey you’ve got my vote 🗳️

Headbutting can be dangerous as well, so I'm campaigning for mass beheading 🪓

How will I do my mire poix??

I see. I did the laugh emoji. Not because hating dogs is funny, but the craziness of the op

Whatabout pencil sharpeners?

They can't stab anyone but you can remove the blade and use it as a weapon - someone I know taught in a school where thr kids were found to be doing this.

I sliced my thumb open on a rounded, blunt butter knife the other day. I mean, I was using it very unsafely to clean the candle wax from a candlestick but where there's a will...

They are a prolific dog hater. I bet this thread will end up actually being about dogs.

My best stupid one has to be either the end of the toothpaste or trying to open the ibuprofen 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Oh fgs. I imagine that op is using this goady post to be pro-guns as this is the twisted logic that alot of Americans who are pro-gun seem to spout.

I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.

I cut myself on sugar that was dried and stuck to the side of a mug.

I'm not sure, I can't quite image Crocodile Dundee uttering the infamous line as...

"That's not a balloon, THIS is a balloon".

I had my worst cut ever from a rotary cutter whilst quilting, I imagine they could do some damage.

DS almost 18 is doing a catering course I had to buy the knives he needed and carry them to his college and into the kitchen so he could use them 🙄.

I had to google that. Then it got me on to thinking of hot fuzz and all the “accidents” people had.

Leslie Tiller was fucking murdered!

And let's ban bricks, skipping rope and glass bottles while we're at it. All of which could, with some imagination, be used for violent purposes.🙄

But seriously, the faff one has to go through to buy basic tools for perfectly legitimate purposes is already over the top. You can legally vote, operate a vehicle and rent or buy a house, but you cannot buy a bread knife to use in your newly acquired kitchen. Really?

This reminds me, I visited a DIY shop in a Scandinavian country once and they had a whole box full of very sharp and pointy outdoor knives sitting out at roughly waist height. With plenty of kids running about the place playing tag. Somehow, it was fully assumed that most of them would know not to mess about with pointy objects, and that parents would be responsible for those who had not yet learned that lesson. Unsurprisingly, no-one was injured, intentionally or otherwise.

On a completely different note, a humble bread knife can work wonders on tomatoes.

On that note

This country is becoming a joke 🙄 let's ban every single utensil that can be used to hurt someone. People will still find a way even if it's sharpening sticks.

My tomato knives have rounded ends. They're evil super-sharp bastards with a thirst for human blood IME, but it would be difficult to kill someone with them.

This is my main use for the pointed end on my knives. Always having to stab through the film on packaging!

There are knives with flat rather than pointy ends which are a good idea as it's harder to stab someone with them. Unfortunately things like screwdrivers, chisels and scissors are still capable of being lethal weapons when force is applied.