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

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487762/Butter-knife-an-offensive-weapon.html

Butter knife 'an offensive weapon'

14 April 2005 • 12:01am

A butter knife can be an offensive weapon, the High Court ruled yesterday.

The decision came in the rejection of an appeal by Charlie Brooker, of Welling, Kent, who had been convicted under the Criminal Justice Act of carrying a bladed instrument.

Mark Hardie, appearing for Brooker, argued that the knife had no handle, sharp edges or points and therefore could not fall foul of a law intended to protect people from dangerous weapons.

But Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice David Steel, disagreed. He said: "I would accept that a sharp or pointed blade was the paradigm case - however the words of the statute are unqualified and refer to any article that has a blade."

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fishing hooks. Knitting pins. BIC razors out of their plastic housing god forbid.

I wonder how they think these "articles " should be regulated along with butter knives? Bonkers.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day 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...