Friday, May 27, 2005

What slippery slope?

Crazy Foreigners

British doctors writing in the British Medical Journal are calling for a complete ban on all long kitchen knives, saying that half of all stab wounds are caused by those deadly kitchen implements. 

They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.

Good to know that they got everyone involved in the process.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

And if there aren’t any knives handy, they’ll grab something else.

The study found links between easy access to domestic knives and violent assault are long established.

What?  There’s a link between the existence of swimming pools and drowning deaths.  Violent assaults usually happen at home. 

The researchers say legislation to ban the sale of long pointed knives would be a key step in the fight against violent crime. “The Home Office is looking for ways to reduce knife crime.  We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect.”

Practical?  Are they going to register the hundreds of millions of already extant knives?

Nutjobs.  First they came for the guns…


Posted by Buckethead on 05/27/05 at 01:47 PM
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