I am all for the reduction of violent crime, but I am a bit concerned about this BBC article about a call for a formal ban on kitchen knives. I regularly use a knife like the one pictured to slice melons, filet large salmon, and play mumble de peg with. A ridiculous ban on knives like this would wipe out almost every knife I own–they are all sharp, pointed and over 6 inches long. My bread knife, my fish filet knife, chef knives I would have nothing practical left to work with. There must some other solution, certainly. Otherwise all sorts of things commonly used to injure people would have to be banned: automobiles, pens & pencils, razor blades, pen knives, fists, elevator music, large joints of meat. . . .No, knives like these have been around for 4 centuries at least. Quit blaming the victim and start treating the miscreants who are causing the damage. More education, heavier punishment (the death penalty used to be effective) and quicker trials would be a start. Oh, and letting us all carry our own long, sharp knives around to fend off attackers. . .

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