Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end after hearing three s

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Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end after hearing three serious stabbing cases in last three months

    Ideas come from Judge Nic Madge, who jailed Jordon Worth, 22, for inflicting a catalogue of injuries on her boyfriend including stabbing him
    Judge Madge said was was the points of ordinary kitchen knives that was causing the soaring loss of life among youngsters
    Says members of the public could take their kitchen knives to be 'modified' and the points ground down into rounded ends

By Laura Forsyth For Mailonline

Published: 08:59 EDT, 27 May 2018 | Updated: 08:59 EDT, 27 May 2018

 
A judge has called for a drastic rethink on the way we use knives in kitchens in a bid to reduce the number of young men dying on our streets because of knife crime.

And he has come up with an idea for a scheme that could be rolled out across the UK where members of the public could take their kitchen knives to be 'modified' and the points ground down into rounded ends.

This comes from Judge Nic Madge, who last month jailed Jordon Worth, of Stewartby, Bedfordshire, for seven-and-a-half years after she inflicted a catalogue of injuries on her boyfriend Alex Skeel.

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[WingNot]

Is the spork safe from the UK's newest crackdown on cutlery?

[Oceander]

Well, unless you dull the edges as well, they’ll still be plenty of slashing injuries. 

Obviously, this judge is a elitist snot who has all his meals cooked for him, and who has never done much for himself.

[RoosGirl]

I think the judge also needs to order every British subject into long-term anger management therapy along with a lifetime supply of Valium.  In order to make sure everyone complies everyone will have to pay for a gov't approved nanny.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

I think the judge also needs to order every British subject into long-term anger management therapy along with a lifetime supply of Valium.  In order to make sure everyone complies everyone will have to pay for a gov't approved nanny.

The whole unfortunate nation is already paying Jizya.

[Oceander]

The whole unfortunate nation is already paying Jizya.

Bs

[Frank Cannon]

The whole unfortunate nation is already paying Jizya.

Aren't we paying the Jiz to Egypt?

[roamer_1]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Silly liberals.
Better outlaw grinders and even files, because it would take literal minutes to put the point back on.

[240B]

I agree that the judge must be some kind of pampered elitist fool, who has never used a knife or a common tool his entire life. Rounding or flattening the point of a knife does nothing to decrease how deadly it can be. Some people prefer a rounded end on a weapon because it tends to make a broader cut. Historically, the reason weapons were pointed was to be able to pierce armor and chain mail. I don't think that will be an issue in most places these days.

A screwdriver, a chisel, an icepick, all make excellent weapons and would also have to be banned. A prisoner can make a knife out of a toothbrush. So even if England banned every sharp object in the whole country, people would simply make their own weapons out of anything/everything including a sharp rock.

[Polly Ticks]

This judge is not very sharp.

It had to be said.  I'm sorry.

[roamer_1]

This judge is not very sharp.

It had to be said.  I'm sorry.

HA! I shall chortle now.
 

[Oceander]

This judge is not very sharp.

It had to be said.  I'm sorry.

[240B]

Someone should explain to this moron Judge, it's not the point that kills you. It is the whole 'getting stabbed' part that does most of the damage.

[Suppressed]

Someone should explain to this moron Judge, it's not the point that kills you. It is the whole 'getting stabbed' part that does most of the damage.

Penetration is greatly reduced with a blunted point.  Your examples were sharpened; the judge is clearly speaking not only of rounding but of blunting.  While this wouldn't eliminate the threat, it would reduce it quite a bit. . .  and prevent many people from using knives in self-defense.

[240B]

Penetration is greatly reduced with a blunted point.  Your examples were sharpened; the judge is clearly speaking not only of rounding but of blunting.  While this wouldn't eliminate the threat, it would reduce it quite a bit. . .  and prevent many people from using knives in self-defense.

@Suppressed

Blunting any of my examples would effectively render them useless pieces of metal.

[Oceander]

Penetration is greatly reduced with a blunted point.  Your examples were sharpened; the judge is clearly speaking not only of rounding but of blunting.  While this wouldn't eliminate the threat, it would reduce it quite a bit. . .  and prevent many people from using knives in self-defense.

No, he only talked about blunting the point, not the entire knife. 

[Just_Victor]

Penetration is greatly reduced with a blunted point.  Your examples were sharpened; the judge is clearly speaking not only of rounding but of blunting.  While this wouldn't eliminate the threat, it would reduce it quite a bit. . .  and prevent many people from using knives in self-defense.

With enough force any shape object can penetrate human skin.  A sphere in the most blunt shape possible, and yet a musket ball can do plenty of harm.  I recall seeing a case where unsharpened steel rebar was used to stab someone.