Knives are dangerous for your health

I kid you not, A&E doctors are seeking to ban pointed kitchen knives for reasons of crime reduction!

Basically they used their 7+ years of University education to find out that knives were a primary factor in deaths from stabbing. Therefore ban knives and you've stopped 1/2 of the stabbings happening at the moment!

Makes sense really. Sure, you might see an increase in people being hit over the heads with bricks, but that just means they won't be filling up A&E anymore. They'll be in the brain damage unit and that's somebody else's problem!

Or, maybe a fully fledged ban is too extreme. Maybe we should have advisory stickers on kitchen knives: 'warning - if you stick this in someone's head they could die'. Or, maybe we just make the knife manufacturers pay for the costs of treating stab victims by suing them for negligence. They obviously had a duty of care to warn the perpetrator and the victim that knives were dangerous.

I'm not sure what's scarier, that the British Medical Journal could publish something this retarded, or that the BBC could treat this as a serious policy proposal worthy of 3 pages of analysis!