"Klara" wrote in message
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Along these same lines, did anyone see yesterday's headline:

"A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to
reduce deaths from stabbing.
A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on
the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all
stabbings.
They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol
and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.
The research is published in the British Medical Journal."

How very odd that they did not call for the banning of drugs and
alcohol.Especially since both are one of the main causes of violent crime in
this country.