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It's your opinion. This guy (a chef and a long-serving royal marine) has a different opinion, for instance: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2025/may/comm
by exasperaited 1y ago
It's your opinion.
This guy (a chef and a long-serving royal marine) has a different opinion, for instance:
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2025/may/commando-chef-backs-campaign-to-cut-knife-crime-with-rounded-tips.aspx https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2025/may/commando-chef-...
This former circuit judge who now works for a knife crime unit:
https://www.fightingknifecrime.london/news-posts/the-need-for-safer-knives https://www.fightingknifecrime.london/news-posts/the-need-fo...
This research unit proved that they are less dangerous:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rounded-knife-point-ban-stabbing-b2700287.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rounded-knif...
The Ben Kinsella Trust supports this, and Let's Be Blunt has done good research on the number of impulse crimes that involve kitchen knives:
https://www.letsbeblunt.co.uk https://www.letsbeblunt.co.uk
Quite a lot of research is being done on this, quite a lot of police forces support it, and more to the point, British retailers already distinguish between these knives in terms of what young people can buy.
So it's not just one MP and one guy on HN is it?
But I am delusional, for sure, because I believe that experts deserve a hearing.
- InterGuru1 1y ago[dead]