Nanny State to the Tenth Power

The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

I hate to break it to you blokes over in Blightly, but knives aren't exactly high-tech weapons. Anyone with a half-way decent grinding wheel will put a point back on those knives in short order. It'll take longer with a mill file, but it can be done. Hell, it could even be done, slowly, with a patch of rough concrete.

Besides that, as any real knife pro knows, the proper way to use a knife is as a slashing weapon. The Samurai sword was a slashing weapon; you could press your fingers against the edge with little injury, but do that and slide your hand down the sword and they'd be calling you "Stubby". Slide a few inches of sharp steel against your opponent's neck and he is a dead man.

Once the goons figure out the proper way to use a knife, then what are you going to do?