“The idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”
The Brits bring out a “pointless” knife in response to the wailing over kitchen knives in a country where stabbing seems to be the major means of homicide. I’m not sure the notch in the blade makes it “pointless” rather than actually sort of “double-pointed”–and as Lowering the Bar points out, that “skin-snagging” effect is probably a bug rather than a feature. But what cracks me up the most is that these are obviously meant to be real kitchen knives in every other respect–i.e. an edge sharp enough to dice carrots on the fly. Which makes the title quote, from the knife’s designer, ludicrous. Can’t kill anybody with a pointless knife, eh? Even though it’s sharp enough to slice a tomato, it won’t slice open somebody’s larynx and carotid artery? Okay, then.
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For longer than I can remember, the gun lobby has argued that if you ban guns, knives are next. I never really believed the rhetoric until that island that used to be Great Britain proved it. Today it’s a pointless knife. Tomorrow, another pointless knife law.
Comment by Xrlq — June 17, 2009 @ 3:25 am
Yep. What the anti-gun (and anti-knife) people never seem to learn is that you can’t ban homicide.
Comment by Anwyn — June 17, 2009 @ 7:10 am