If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.
Leanne Lucas, 36, was critically injured in the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed dance class she was leading during last year’s school summer holidays.
There are a ton of things in a kitchen where a point is needed to cut things. Requiring the blunts to be dull means a lot of home sharpening so the knives are useful in the kitchen. Her emotional reaction is valid, but the proposed solution is stupid.
The article is about a victim of the Southport attack advocating for dull kitchen knives in the kitchen.
“When this idea about the blunt-tip knives came in I just thought: this is a no-brainer, I don’t understand why our kitchen isn’t safer in the first place,” she said.
I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It’s performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won’t stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife. Or I could grab a dozen other dangerous things in the kitchen, line hitting them with a frying pan. Should we make frying pans soft now?
It is literally impossible for anyone to make a blunt tip sharp in a few minutes, so that checks out.
If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.
Like in a Taylor Swift dance class?
There are a ton of things in a kitchen where a point is needed to cut things. Requiring the blunts to be dull means a lot of home sharpening so the knives are useful in the kitchen. Her emotional reaction is valid, but the proposed solution is stupid.
Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.
The article is about a victim of the Southport attack advocating for dull kitchen knives in the kitchen.
There was certainly a ‘no-brain’ somewhere in her thought process, I’ll grant her that.
I can are we forgetting about the rest of the blade? This is like putting foam on your bumper in case you hit someone. It’s performative and does nothing in reality. Like you said, if they want to kill someone a blunt tip won’t stop them, they literally have the rest of the knife. Or I could grab a dozen other dangerous things in the kitchen, line hitting them with a frying pan. Should we make frying pans soft now?