This is from one of my medical emails......remember these are the same docs that promoted banning firearms!!
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British Doctors Advocate Ban on Long Pointed Kitchen Knives
By Karla Gale
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 26 - Citing an increasing rate of knife attacks and stabbings, a team of physicians in the UK recommends that the sale of long pointed knives be legally banned.
"We're seeing more knifings than gunshot injuries," Dr. Emma Hern told Reuters Health. "And based on our own observations and talking to local peace officers and pathologists, kitchen knives account for about half of knife attacks and stabbings, probably because they're so easily accessible."
In an editorial published in the May 28th issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Hern's group cites statistics suggesting that 24% of 16-year-old boys carry weapons, and that 19% admit to having attacked someone with the intent to harm. The most common weapons in these situations are knives.
Dr. Hern and her colleagues at West Middlesex University Hospital in London personally spoke with British chefs and people in the catering business.
They responded that "there is no need for people to have such long pointed knifes in their kitchen," Dr. Hern said. "All that is needed is a 2-inch long knife with a pointed blade. Otherwise everything can be done with a blunt-ended knife."
BMJ 2005;330:1221-1222.