{"id":2312,"date":"2005-05-27T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:00:30","slug":"outlaw-pointy-sticks-and-only-outlaws-will-have-pointy-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/outlaw-pointy-sticks-and-only-outlaws-will-have-pointy-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlaw Pointy Sticks, and Only Outlaws Will Have Pointy Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, relegating gun possession to only lawbreakers has not made Britain safe enough.  Now, doctors think that pointed kitchen knives <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4581871.stm\" target=\"_new\">should be banned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A&#038;E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase &#8211; and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.<\/p>\n<p>They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in the British Medical Journal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I favor preemptive amputation of the hands, which will prevent people from strangling or beating each other the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, relegating gun possession to only lawbreakers has not made Britain safe enough. Now, doctors think that pointed kitchen knives should be banned: A&#038;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 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20056,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/20056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}