http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6501720.ece

From Times Online
June 15, 2009
First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain





(www.newpointknives.co.uk)


The knives are expected to sell for £40-50

Kaya Burgess

The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.

It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.

Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.

He said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”

The knife is expected to sell for around £40-50 and has been tested with “very favourable” results by the Home Office’s Design and Technology Alliance - set up to research products that can deter crime.

Dear lord..... I guess the idea of selling a knife for $80-$100 (US Dollars) without a point is really going to reduce crime. Nope.... bench grinders or files and thirty seconds I a normal knife.

Oh.... the pointy stick is Man's oldest weapon. I guess banning pointy knives will remove them from the streets in about three weeks.

What about slashing attacks? ice Picks? Screw Drivers? etc..... It's not the weapon. It's the intent of the user.

Will prevent fatal attacks? I can slash a human throat far easier and kill someone with that attack then stabbing someone. Cut the artery and the person will bleed out in about three minutes.

Dear Lord I can't this mindless crap. Sadly Obama wants to bring this Big Brother style of government stateside and there are a ton of idiot liberals that will support it.

As for their bins..... string+magnet=free knives.













I used to make switchblades out of popsicle sticks when I was a kid.


ETA: kinda like this.



I guess that the UK really believes that someone doesn't have any common sense..... I guess self defense is a no no and being armed is bad....

That stuff is so gay.
Turn in the knives and then what?
Might as well cut off all our arms and legs.

There's a difference between what Obama's plans are for the country and what GB is doing... I highly doubt the pointless knife is high on Obama's plan for lowering the rate of violence in America.


It's what we like to call apples and oranges.

I'll admit that this is ridiculous. There's absolutely no point (pardon the pun) in having a pointless knife because slashing a human throat is much more effective as far as killing (fatal wound) goes anyway. But I DO think their hearts are in the right place. Instead of arming everyone to the teeth and seeing how well people live in fear of one another, trying to consciously lower the rate of violence so that people can live without fear of criminals OR their crazy neighbor with the 12 bore.

Yeah, I don't know if it's fair to make a link with Obama to this at the moment. Current indications are that he's probably not going to go ahead with anything like this.

Henderson, I think the idea is stupid because we're again focusing on the tools rather than the cause.
Truth is, I can kill someone with a sharpened pencil or a pen but I can't do it with a feather. Are we going to go back to using ink and feather?
Ban cell phones because they can be used to trigger explosives.
Ban swimming pools because it causes some fatalities.
Ban cars for about a million reasons.
Ban spray cans because they can be used as weapon too. Actually since guns are illegal in this country, I have spray paint cans placed in strategic points at my house for use as a defense aid. A spray in the face and it'll give me a distinctive edge against any intruder.

Still... A pointless knife is rather pointless, isn't it?



(that one WAS intended. )

Originally Posted by Rob Henderson

There's a difference between what Obama's plans are for the country and what GB is doing... I highly doubt the pointless knife is high on Obama's plan for lowering the rate of violence in America.


It's what we like to call apples and oranges.

I'll admit that this is ridiculous. There's absolutely no point (pardon the pun) in having a pointless knife because slashing a human throat is much more effective as far as killing (fatal wound) goes anyway. But I DO think their hearts are in the right place. Instead of arming everyone to the teeth and seeing how well people live in fear of one another, trying to consciously lower the rate of violence so that people can live without fear of criminals OR their crazy neighbor with the 12 bore.

Once again..... evil people will still be around. Can't get rid of them. I live in a very pro self defense state. Lower crime stats.... I've been in States that have open carry laws and everyone is armed. Lower crime stats and nice folks.

Criminals are predators. They prey on the weak. The weak are disarmed. Criminals break laws, hence laws that remove arms and the means of self defense from the law abiding citizenry only effect the law abiding citizenry since criminals break the law.

As for the knife ban.... wrong. They are currently trying to push a Federal ban on any pocket knife that can be opened with one hand.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) just a bit over two weeks ago on May 21st proposed revoking earlier rulings that assisted opening knives are not switchblades. The proposed new rule would not only outlaw assisted opening knives, its new broad definition of a switchblade would also include one-handed opening knives and could be easily interpreted to cover most other pocket knives, even simple old-fashioned slip-joints. At this point, one-hand opening and assisted opening knives are 80% of U.S. knife sales (per AKTI industry sources). For most knife companies, they represent all or the majority of their product lines. These are the knives Americans take with them to work and to play everyday.

Download the 63 page CPB document and read it for yourself.

Note, please, that CBP's interpretation of the Federal Switchblade Act forms the basis for national, state and even local law and judicial rulings in many cases. This ruling by CBP is NOT limited to just imports. This WILL affect virtually everyone who carries a pocket knife, no matter the type!

It's not even being pushed through Congress. This is being done through Customs and Border Protection. Same as how BATFE can regulate firearm law without Congressional Approval.

That's crazy. So a Swiss Army Knife would also fall into the category of a switchblade? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Then again, this is happening regardless of who the President is.

So we're creating pointless blades? I wasn't aware... Why didn't you just post a US article instead of going to the UK for it?

if i was president I'd run on the platform of an "AK for every home" : )