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

• 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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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Like in a Taylor Swift dance class?

        Leanne Lucas, 36, was critically injured in the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class she was leading during last year’s school summer holidays.

        There are a ton of things in a kitchen where a point is needed to cut things. Requiring the blunts to be dull means a lot of home sharpening so the knives are useful in the kitchen. Her emotional reaction is valid, but the proposed solution is stupid.

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      • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It’s performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won’t stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife.

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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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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Would you like to explain HOW it would reduce deaths? Because no would-be mass murderer would ever sharpen a knife or, just, pick up another weapon?

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