Yeah,
@Seul , I was just taking the chance to attack Belgium
Our policies are similarly ridiculous.
Rant follows, just ignore me--I didn't know about UK knife law and I'm appalled re: the locking knife ban. That's monumentally stupid. Locking is a safety mechanism. I love my slipjoints, but they are not nearly as safe to the user as a locking blade. Meanwhile, I suppose it's perfectly legal to carry a straight razor (no lock, and bonus points, no point!!), which is far more dangerous to the holder or a victim than a simple Case lockback, for example. And I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that chavs stabbing folks in the street are more likely to use a kitchen knife than a Sebenza anyway.
I found the following on what as far as I can tell is not satire,
from the Church that was founded because Henry VIII wanted to make it official with his side piece: "We the undersigned are professionals and community leaders from across the UK who call on Government to see the sale of pointed domestic kitchen knives as a thing of the past," reads the not-a-parody open letter from the Diocese of Rochester, signed by church leaders, lawmakers, psychiatrists, academics, and the like. "Historically we needed a point on the end of our knife to pick up food because forks weren't invented. Now we only need the point to open packets when we can't be bothered to find the scissors."
Is this real life or an exercise in
reductio ad aburdum by the knife lobby? I thought
@DougNg was kidding.... A point is for puncturing things as the rest of the blade is for slicing, sawing, chopping, carving, etc. things. The likelihood of those "things" being human flesh is very low. The likelihood of those "things" being your fingers is higher without a lock.
Ridiculous.
