Congratulations to John Cornock, inventor of the new anti-stab knife set to go on sale across the UK before Christmas (can't it be sooner...). Wonder how many lives it could save?
It makes sense for all anti-knife and knife crime campaigners to lead a push to encourage all households to replace kitchen blades with this type of new knife - and perhaps other types of blade too. What does everyone think?
Take a look at John's company website - www.newpointknives.co.uk
While not completely safe, this one has been designed over four years to work in the kitchen, but not be effective as a weapon.
By utilising a unique "combination tip", the tip has a rounded edge (much like my thoughts referred to in a knife crime blog post a couple of years ago) next to a very small point, the cutting blade sits below the blunt area.
Great for chopping veg, the tip makes stabbing quite difficult and it is designed to snag on clothing and skin. Apparently this makes it "very unlikely to inflict a fatal wound" - and tests have proven it to work.
Want to know more about how these stab resistant knives work? Read about the anti-stab design. Some more anti-stab knife info here at The Times Online. Some readers say it's ridiculous but I think it has potential, a step in the right direction. Here's hoping...!
2 comments:
Sorry, guys, I am unimpressed. You might only stab me 'a little bit' with this implement but it remains a blade.
It's not knives that injure people. Excluding accidents, it's the malicious motivation of the people using them. Redesigning a kitchen utensil, clever though it appears, does not really address the serious problem of use with criminal intent.
Finally, to the blog administrator, does this post (which looks like an advert to me) belong in this blog?
One of the issues I had long thought about was making a knife that could function as a household utensil but could not kill. I had previously suggested making knives with rounded ends. A couple of years later, here it is. I'm not saying it's a key solution in the knife crime debate - but I believe it is a step in the right direction, if only a small step.
Only time will tell perhaps. There is the danger it will become a white elephant that no-one will buy - but it's worth a try. Why shouldn't retail outlets selling knives be forced to sell safer round-ended blades and not lethal points?
The reason I've made this post is not as an advert but to shine the spotlight of public exposure on an idea. It is just one of many posts and joins an ever-growing list of posts on this blog about the knife crime scourge.
I'm not vain enough to think my opinion will change the face of knife sales in the high street but I'd rather people bought one of these knives than one that can kill.
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