Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped

ladel@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rjek@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed. Otherwise it’s a gimmick that just inconveniences.

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  • ladel@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.

    She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is literally impossible for anyone to make a blunt tip sharp in a few minutes, so that checks out.

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      • ladel@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, would-be mass murderers everywhere will be deterred by the fact that knives will no longer come pre-pointed. Society will be saved!

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      • ladel@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You all should ban screwdrvers and hammers and wrenches and cricket bats and especially blunted knives, sure it might inconvenience some people, but think of the chance of saving lives???

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  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just make them out of softer material, like cork.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      hammers

      softer material, like cork.

      www.bbc.com/news/articles/clwwn7x4j9yo

      A man who attacked his ex-partner over the head with a rubber mallet in front of their two young children has been jailed for life for her murder.

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      • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, rubber mallets are still dangerous. That can be fixed with a sizeable donation to my prospective campaign fund.

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  • ladel@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Make sure you ban all rocks and sticks, too!!!

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        dailymail.co.uk/…/world-s-weirdest-murder-weapons…

        From a pair of stilettos to a jar of gherkins, photographer captures bizarre objects used to kill

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      • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You guys are out here acting like stick crime is a joke and it’s fucking disgusting

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    • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Everything is a potential weapon.

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• j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, we should also remove the edges from all knives, much safer this way. Probably a bit inconvenient to some chefs but who cares about preparing food right

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