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Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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She's asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it's impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they'll slowly get phased out. You wouldn't save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.
It is literally impossible for anyone to make a blunt tip sharp in a few minutes, so that checks out.
If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they'll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.
Like in a Taylor Swift dance class?
There are a ton of things in a kitchen where a point is needed to cut things. Requiring the blunts to be dull means a lot of home sharpening so the knives are useful in the kitchen. Her emotional reaction is valid, but the proposed solution is stupid.
Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.
The article is about a victim of the Southport attack advocating for dull kitchen knives in the kitchen.
There was certainly a 'no-brain' somewhere in her thought process, I'll grant her that.
I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It's performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won't stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife. Or I could grab a dozen other dangerous things in the kitchen, line hitting them with a frying pan. Should we make frying pans soft now?
Yes, would-be mass murderers everywhere will be deterred by the fact that knives will no longer come pre-pointed. Society will be saved!
It's not expecting to stop all murders. It's about reducing deaths.
Would you like to explain HOW it would reduce deaths? Because no would-be mass murderer would ever sharpen a knife or, just, pick up another weapon?
Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?
You're dodging the question. HOW would this reduce deaths?
You can stab someone to death with a blunt-tipped knife, it's just going to hurt more and do more tearing damage.