Long, Pointy Knife Control

Charles · May 27, 2005

Warning: Long, pointy knives may be hazardous to your health.

... in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal have called for knife reform. The editorial, "Reducing knife crime: We need to ban the sale of long, pointed kitchen knives," notes that the knives are being used to stab people as well as roasts and the odd tin of Spam.

....Drs. Emma Hern, Will Glazebrook and Mike Beckett of the West Middlesex University Hospital in London - called for laws requiring knife manufacturers to redesign their wares with rounded, blunt tips.
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In the United States, where people are more likely to debate gun control than knife control, partisans on both sides sounded amused. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, asked, ''Are they going to have everybody using plastic knives and forks and spoons in their own homes, like they do in airlines?''

Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which supports gun control, joked, ''Can sharp stick control be far behind?'' He said people in his movement were ''envious'' of England for having such problems. ''In America, we can't even come to an agreement that guns are dangerous and we should make them safer,'' he said.
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Ted Heiks · May 27, 2005

Originally posted by Charles

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Damn! How about fork control, too? - Theo

Mr. Engineer · May 27, 2005

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Originally posted by Ted Heiks

Damn! How about fork control, too? - Theo
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I say we ban politicians - that would save us all from ourselves.

little fauss · May 27, 2005

The only surefire way to keep people from hurting people is to ban people.

Ted Heiks · May 28, 2005

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Originally posted by Mr. Engineer

I say we ban politicians - that would save us all from ourselves.
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Well, if we banned Democrats, who would oppose the Republican Party at the polls? Isn't representative democracy supposed to be about good old freedom of choice? - Theo

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