It appears our British friends are still not safe with all guns banned, knives may be the next "assault" weapon banned in UK....
British Doctors Call for Ban on Long Kitchen Knives to End Stabbings
The good news is that if we ever do get that assault rifle ban, followed by a handgun ban, followed by a ban of anything that can shoot bullets, the “Banners” will still have a banner year of banning all the other ways with which people kill other people.
Violent crimes haven’t gone away with the UK’s gun control. They’ve
actually gone up.Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504
Instead of gun crime, the UK worries about knife crime. And has been practicing knife control.
The UK outlawed the switchblade and gravity knife in 1959.
In 1988 possession of a pocket knife with a blade larger than 3 inches in public became illegal.
In 1996, it became illegal to sell a razor blade to anyone under the age of 16.
In 2007, you needed a license to be able to sell “non-domestic knives.”
Despite all that knifepoint robberies
rose by 10 percent this year and there are
some 60,000 stabbings each year. So the push is on to
outlaw long kitchen knives. Once that’s done, surely utopia will be at hand.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.
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.
The researchers say legislation to ban the sale of long pointed knives would be a key step in the fight against violent crime.
“We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect.”
Certainly no law-abiding person needs a long blade kitchen knife. No one is talking about outlawing all kitchen knives. Just the ones with long blades. No reason for anyone to go beyond a paring knife anyway.
The chefs say so and what does Julia Child know anyway.
Take a good look America. This is where we’re headed under liberal dominion.
British Doctors Call for Ban on Long Kitchen Knives to End Stabbings
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60,000 are injured by opening packaging
More than 60,000 people require hospital treatment each year after injuring themselves opening difficult packaging, research has shown.
From cuts and bruises to injured bones, sprains and even severed fingers, injuries sustained by the frustrations of trying to open a jar, bottle or tightly packed goods are costing the NHS £12 million a year.
Among the most common injuries were cuts sustained when opening cans of corned beef, which require a special key. Last year more than 9,000 people injured themselves while removing the sharp lids, accounting for 13.8 per cent of all emergency "package" admissions.
Excluding corned beef, food cans in general resulted in 17,671 people requiring hospital treatment (26 per cent). Researchers found fingers had been cut off in some cases by people using a knife to cut a can in half.
The findings were made by researchers at Nottingham University, who were asked by the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the potential dangers on badly designed packaging.
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Beverley Norris, from the Occupational Ergonomics Department, said: "What we found was a lack of design when it comes to consumers opening items."
She said that most accidents occur when people give up trying to open difficult packages conventionally and resort to using a knife or scissors. She said 88 people were injured using a knife to open the packaging containing a new knife.
Among the most serious hazards are glass bottles, which caused a large number of cuts to the hands when the bottles broke while being opened, injuries to feet when the bottle is dropped, and to teeth where people have tried to grip the bottle while opening it.
More than 2,000 people suffer wrist strain each year as they try to prise the lids off jam jars. Others injure themselves in sheer frustration, smashing the glass to open the jar.
Spray bottles and aerosols result in 1,600 injuries each year as people accidentally spray the contents in their eyes as they try to open the product.
Miss Norris said: "Our main find has been that packaging was easier to open when there is a larger surface area for grasping."
A spokesman for the DTI called the results "staggering", while David Jenkins, Product Safety Investigator for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "We receive regular complaints from consumers who have injured themselves trying to get at a product. This is a serious problem and the industry should be doing more."
60,000 are injured by opening packaging - Telegraph
? They don't have arms.....that arms is FIRE arms you know!!
