Take the Guns first, the go for the blades

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.
A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.
They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.
The research is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.
They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.
None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed.

When my Sweet Baboo brought this to my attention, I thought it was a joke. It is not. First they came for the guns.........................


http://godfatherpolitics.com/8721/uk-considers-banning-kitchen-knives/

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/science/27knife.html?_r=0

I'm surprised you didn't know about it. It's about seven years old. Notice how the wording is similar to how they talk about so called assault weapons.

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This is awesome.

That's interesting. There are more legal pitfalls in our country over carrying a knife then there are over carrying a firearm.