Oh Karol, don't you know slippery slop arguments are completely irrelevant!

Why do we need the point on the knife anyway? Lots of hunting knives already come with this safety feature, so it's not something new in the least. If the knife still performs it's primary function, slicing things, the point is only a superfluous danger.

Here's an example: http://www.brightguy.com/products/Fusilier_Hydralloy_Knife.php

But what will happen when British criminals start using the slicing feature?

Slicing isn't nearly as life threatening as stabbing. I see what your point is, but it's stupid to rail against a guy who just wanted to make a kitchen implement a little safer.

No one's coming for your guns! Yet.

I don't see anything about a law being passed there, just some "designer" trying to cash in on public fears. If you've ever tried to use one of those rounded things to carve up a turkey you know why knives are pointed, so I doubt these will ever be required.

In any event a few minutes at a grinding wheel will turn one back into a weapon, so I'm a bit mystified at the, eh, point.

I learned in school that people who commit crimes do so due to their socio-economic problems.

England already has free health care and generous unemployment benefits---so given that, why would anyone feel compelled to commit a crime in England ?

This is a bad idea. Spoon stabbings will cause more tissue damage and be harder to treat.

Well, fruit spoons are next. Can't have people running around with serrated edges.

If they outlaw spoons only the outlaws will have spoons!

They can take my sporks from my well fed hands, after I've finished my baked potato!

After they banned guns murders used knives. So they decided to come up with knives that are ineffective for stabbings. If murderers decide to go all caveman and use rocks will these same morons require all rocks to be outfitted with nerf padding?

According to one knife-control advocate, thr usual type of knife can stab a human like "cutting into a ripe melon."

Okay, how are we supposed to cut into ripe melons?

I collected replica swords when younger, Joseph, and one of my favorite things to do was go up in the canyons with a couple of friends and slice up fruit. This included watermelons, which with a little practice we could slice through in mid-air.

But this is probably not what you're talking about...