[Kitsune]

I find this article both amusing and disturbing.

Children as young as seven are regularly carrying knives, according to a BBC investigation. ... Friends of hers admitted it was very common for children to carry knives - in fact they claimed to know of one who had a pocket knife at the age of seven.

My god! Those poor children! Wait-- wha? Why is this a big deal? Should we all be concerned that children own and carry knives? I was given a pocket knife when I was six (as was every kid my age that I knew), as it was considered an important tool everyone should learn to use and carry.

So, then, I started to wonder if the British were absolutely crazy. The answer: Yes, they are.

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.

What happened to our friends across the pond to make them fear pointy objects?

The study found links between easy access to domestic knives and violent assault are long established.

So, uh, does this absolutely baseless study actually indicate that everyone that owns a pointed knife is very likely to stab someone? What the hell is wrong with these people?