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No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they're all destroyed. Otherwise it's a gimmick that just inconveniences.
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.
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.
You can stab someone to death with a blunt-tipped knife, it's just going to hurt more and do more tearing damage.
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?