UK Judge Suggests Program To File Down Kitchen Knives In Order To Combat Knife Violence

Annnnnnnnd the UK continues to swirl down the drain.

According to this, Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge proposed a “solution” for knife violence across the UK. A filing program! And by that I mean, a program specifically designed to file down sharp kitchen knives.

That’s his solution. He said that. Out loud. In front of people.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

Latest figures show stabbing deaths among teenagers and young adults have reached the highest level for eight years, and knife crime overall rose 22 per cent in 2017.

Mhm. And that obviously DIRECTLY correlates with invention of kitchen knives! Wait…no. That’s not right. NO MATTER!

Judge Madge told the assembled judges, barristers and court staff: “These offences often seem motiveless – one boy was stabbed because he had an argument a couple of years before at his junior school.”

Yeah. We’re playing the “let’s pretend the motives are a mystery” game. It’s a progressive favorite.

He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

He said: “A few of the blades carried by youths are so called ‘Rambo knives’ or samurai swords. They though are a very small minority.

“The reason why these measures have little effect is that the vast majority of knives carried by youths are ordinary kitchen knives. Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons.

So ban kitchen knives. Isn’t that the OBVIOUS solution here?

Our jokes are their policy proposals.

“Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”

As a result – said the judge – the most common knife a youth will take out is eight to ten inches, long and pointed, from his mother’s cutlery tray.

He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

“Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all.”

If it sounds like he’s questioning your need to have whatever kind of kitchen knife you want, it’s because he’s questioning your need to have whatever kind of kitchen knife you want. I’m telling you. This is how liberals operate.  It’s never enough. They will never stop blaming you and treading on your liberties.

“I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives – manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government – to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends,” he said.

“It might even be that the police could organize a program whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends,” he added.

That’s where the UK is at right now.

Consider that and look in the mirror, America.

h/t Telegraph