Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pick

Because of its availability and ability to puncture the skin easily, the ice pick has sometimes been used as a weapon. Most notoriously, New York's organized crime groups known as Murder Incorporated made extensive use of the ice pick as a weapon during the 1930s and 1940s.[4][5] There were up to 1,000 murders committed by this group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hammer_assaults

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/french-family-of-four-was-battered-to-death-with-crowbar-says-prosecutor

NANTES, France (AFP) - A crowbar was the murder weapon in a French family drama that left four people dead in an inheritance dispute over gold coins, the prosecutor of the western city of Nantes...

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