A group of British doctors are calling for a ban on kitchen knives.  They claim the number of stabbings would be reduced if kitchen knives were not available.  What utter nonsense.  The fact that a group of doctors or anyone for that matter can get a write up in the BBC shows just how irrelevant the BBC is now.  Hell they might as well be the Guardian.  I guess if these doctors and probably news people in Briton got their way we’d have to outlaw screwdrivers then since they are also handy and can certainly hurt people.  While we are at it let’s just get rid on any sharp object, no metal, no hard plastic and make everything out of fluffy stuffing and rubber.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

Well so is a bottle, a belt, a frying pan, hell anything can be used as a weapon.  The fact is people are the issue and people will on occasion hurt others.  We can deter some violence through law enforcement and punishment but there will always be some emotional compulsive violence in our world since we are humans.  It’s part of our nature.  Taking our tools away because some people can’t control themselves is unacceptable.  Besides look how well gun control has work to stop crime in Briton, New York and just about any other placed it’s been tried.  It doesn’t help, well not the innocent anyway.