The British are officially insane...

[smoothmoniker]

I'm totally against banning knives.

Instead, what if they required knives to have large rounded rubber balls on the end, that could easily be removed by typing in a combination prior to using them to chop meat? It would probably also be a good idea to make people wait 15 days before buying a pointy knife, so that they aren't purchased and used in rage. Also, we would clearly want to limit the ability of collectors to purchase rare and antique pointy knifes at auctions and large knife shows, since there's no way to know who that guy dropping $50,000 on an original 1820's Snowden-made Bowie Knife really is.

This things make more sense. But we shouldn't ban pointy knifes, because when pointy knives become illegal, only criminals will have pointy knives.

-sm