So apparently we now have anti-stab knives coming onto the market. I don’t know about you but it seems that this is tackling the wrong end of the problem. The problem with heightened stabbings isn’t that the knives stab, but that the person on the end of the knife wants to stab the person in the first place. Making the knife less capable of being that form of weapon isn’t in the end going to make a difference as the mentality of grabbing a weapon will still be there and it will just be channelled through a different medium. When oh when will we get out of this depressing cycle of treating the symptoms without attacking the cause? Knife crime is a symptom of something much deeper in our society, we need to tackle that deeper level problem rather than trying to mitigate the consequences by having stab proof knives. It is completely the wrong end of the problem. Removing the point isn’t going to stop knives being sharp and capable of being used to slice people and slicing open people with knives can be every bit as fatal as stabbing them. The answer has to be to find out why people are going around tooled up and put an end to it.
Having said all that though, it is good that knives are going to be somewhat safer in as far as it will prevent accidents. The bottom line is that knives are dangerous, it is why they are kept out of the reach of children. The truth is that unless we tackle the root cause as to why knives are being carried and used we won’t stop the consequences by blunting the point of the knife, it will be a screwdriver or a broken bottle or something else.
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