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    | UK: British Church Leaders Want Government to Ban Pointy Knives Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | Britain has effectively banned firearms, so in recent years the country's criminal class has turned to killing with knives -- leading certain church leaders to call for banning the sale of common chef's knives.
 
 I swear I'm not making this up.
 
 In the Diocese of Rochester, church leaders published an open letter urging government to "take urgent measures to promote the sale of safe kitchen knife designs and restrict those designs which have been used in so many acts of violence."
 
 "Knife violence" in Britain is up an estimated 80% in just the last five years.
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     RichardJCoon
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    | This is beyond stupid.  Given a half a brain, anyone can take a round kitchen knife and grind a "pointy end" on it with a file, some concrete or a handy rock. 
 Next they will ban all utensils and force people to eat with their fingers....
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