Knives

[Panic Button]

Is there any useful purpose to a knife having a sharp point?

Except for stabbing someone of course.

[Panic Button]

Perhaps we should make it illegal to sell knives unles they have a rounded blunt tip.

[ludwig]

The point helps you get started on a tomato if the blade's not too sharp.

[LeMarchand]

I can remember when young boys were encouraged to carry a (pen)knife along with a bit of string, a couple of shillings and a hanky at all times.

Strangely enough, I can't remember a load of people getting stabbed.

[jake-the-peg]

Would it be illeagal to sell files in case someone filed a point.

How about making it illegal to sell nails and screws in case someone attached it to a handle.

Or ..

Well you get the point

[jake-the-peg]

That's probably due to the reporting LeMarchand.

I certainly remember kids on School trips bringing back switchblades and flick knives from France 30 years ago!

Knife crime's actually gone down in the last 10 years it's just the media's current hobby horse.

Stick around it'll be joyriding again soon and then they'll move back onto gun crime or drugs.

The idea is to keep you constantly thinking the world's gone to hell in a handbasket

[Panic Button]

Yeah, OK.

[sp1814]

I notice that dangerous dogs have been quiet lately too.

I find that quite suspicious.

[keyplus90]

You need a sharp point to stab, There are other uses as well, but I would say ok ban the knives with sharp point. But then what about the sharp blade. People will start slashing throats instead of stabbing. So this is not the answer to the problem. Answer is in hanging few involved in these crimes.

[andy-hughes]

Most knives on general sale are used in cooking.

Butchery knives need sharp points for penetrating meat, and also for boning, but other knives do not always require a point - it is perhaps just accepted design.

Selling round-ended knives is not the answer to knife crime - educating people to be nice to each other is what is needed, but that takes money so ...

[jake-the-peg]

Oh I forgot screwdrivers

[DarkMajes71c]

the point of the knife enables you to start the cut or incision into the object or person who you choose (hopefully sensibly). i fully agree with people carrying knifes which are used as tools. i carry one of my swiss army pen knifes everywhere except when i go out to bars etc...
if i was carrying my hunting knife everywhere then i think i would have a problem. its designed for cutting flesh and has no place on the streets.

[zabo]

points are very necessary and important. ask you mathematics teacher.

[nedflanders]

I would agree that knife crime is the Media's little fetish just now, but only if it happens in London!

Glasgows stats are so much worse than Londons but then the media isnt interested in much outside greater London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421534.stm

[China Doll]

Well it helps when cutting my steak but I guess I could also technically stab someone with it too if I get annoyed and I'm eating out. Perhaps that's what they mean by mult-purpose.

[anotheoldgit]

I carried a sheath knife, a small axe, also a 6 foot staff when I was a Boy Scout. No harm was done with these "Weapons".

The cut-throat razor was the main weapon for gangs in days gone by. People mainly got slashed in those days, not very pleasant I know, but not often fatal.

[BertiWooster]

anotheoldgit

You carried a ' sheath knife , a small axe , 6 foot staff '

Were you Goliath , in a former life ?

[jno]

please don't ban knifepoints until they've invented a self-peeling orange.

[China Doll]

You peel your oranges with the knives God gave you jno, your hands! Wow, didn't realise you had such a blood lust....

[4GS]

The pointy bit on a knife is an excellent implement for getting trapped stones out of horses hooves.