Should knives with points be banned?

[OonaStubbs]

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?

A knife still has a sharp blade and what about the millions of knives people already have in their kitchens?! It would be impossible to ban pointed knives. Also, people will just find something else to use as a weapon if that's what they want.

At least we don't make it easy to obtain firearms!

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Yep, there is no reason to have a firearm unless for hunting or sport. And there are already licenses and checks for that anyway.
I know someone who got into clay pigeon shooting, but was turned down when he applied for a shotgun license because he was on antidepressants.

so.. just knives with no points? you do know that people get stabbed with other sharp pointy things don't you? the list is endless... screwdriver? best stop selling those, knitting needles? best ban that pastime...

How on earth would you cut a very ripe tomato without a knife with a point on?

Cheese knives, you need the point to get the cheese.

My DC both left home at 18 and couldn't buy kitchen knives or cutlery. I had to buy them on their behalf because they weren't 21.

Don't forget cars and vans have been used to drive into crowds to kill people deliberately, and a lot are involved in accidental deaths as well.

Do we ban vehicles or resort to a man with a red flag walking in front of every vehicle?

It's not cars, guns or knives that kill, it's the person they are attached to that does the killing and you could ban knives, guns and motor vehicles tomorrow but murders wouldn't stop.

How the hell will you open the film on packaged food. The peel here corner never works.

You could probably kill someone with a wooden spoon if you knew how to

A pointed stick?

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.

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

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 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.

On that note

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.

Leslie Tiller was fucking murdered!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...