Doctors seek kitchen knife ban

[roadsend]

Europe again leads the way. From The Scotsman:



Doctors seek kitchen knife ban

EDWARD BLACK
Key points
• Doctors claim long kitchen knives serve no purpose except as weapons
• 55 out of 108 homicide victims in Scotland were stabbed last year
• Police superintendents say a ban would be difficult to enforce

Key quote
"Many assaults are impulsive, often triggered by alcohol or misuse of other drugs, and the long pointed kitchen knife is an easily available, potentially lethal weapon, particularly in the domestic setting" - Dr Emma Hern, writing in British Medical Journal


Rest of the story at: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=579102005



Are pointed sticks next?

[fishkisser]

I guess nobody buchers their own meat anymore on the other side of the pond...

[Dave G]

Next they will ban cars. People do not fare very well when they jump out in front of them

[SteelheadBum2]

Will once those insanely dangerous knives are banned, I wonder what people will use next to assult each other? I feel a ban on owning a pair of hands might occur. Don't blame the weapon, blame the operator.

[bad habit]

thats ccrraaaazzyy.whats next paper,,to prevent paper cuts..or how about base ball bats,,ask macgyver everythting potentially can be used as a weapon...ridiculous

[Yamhillbilly]

They will just require permits or round safety points, like kindergarden scissors.

[Toledofish]

They won't take my knives until they pry them from my cold dead fingers, but just in case they form a group called Kitchen Knives Inc or the Bradys against knives. I decided to go through my other kitchen untinsils. I have cast iron skillets, a rolling meat tenderizer for a slow death, peanut oil should poisen a few people. How about all those kitchen cleaning products. Ah the kitchen sink should be a good drowning spot, and that boiling water on the stove would be a good impulse weapon, but I better stop there or some Scot might use the I read it on ifish defence.

[Chrome Bumper]

When I here stuff like that I could just wring someone's neck.

[latesvak]

no what they really need to ban is the fork . now that thing is dangerous , think about it . it has roughly 4 points to it . it is really easy to hide . now that right there could do some damage



luke

[CombinationLicense]

Another prime example of the "Save us from ourselves" crowd running amuck! Thanks to the censorship properties of political correctness, nobody will publicly identify the people as the lunatics they are.

What's next, pitchforks? I say the gene pool could use some clorine...

"CL"

[JustCallMeDave]

Got anything about this that isn't two years old? I'm not finding any mention of it after 2005.

[jokester]

Just another knee-jerk reaction from the ding dongs out there that wanna save the world...

-jokester

[JoshTDOR]

At some point we must let natural selection run its course...

[joeyjosef]

DOnt forget a ban on load-pass nail guns............

[MsOutdrs]

[Steelbum...that is funny...