A Southport survivor has called for a ban on pointed kitchen knives and revealed she is still too traumatised to use one herself following the horrific attack last year. Leanne Lucas, 36, was critically injured after she tried to protect innocent children from a knifeman who went on a rampage during a dance class on July 19.
I have immense sympathy for those who were subjected to this appalling attack, but no. Just no. Fuck off, even! Typical brainwashed teacher, unable to call for the eradication of the real cause, stabby imports from the Third World..
Because of her chilling experience, Ms Lucas has set up a campaign calling for the adoption of round-tipped knives. Rudakubana attacked the dance class last year with one of two 20-centimetre kitchen knives he had bought on Amazon for £3.40 each, bypassing security checks. After her horrific experiences, the teacher had assumed there would be tighter controls around kitchen knives and was shocked to find there weren't.
She said: 'Every time I learnt something new, I’d think, "That doesn’t sound right. Surely there are laws in place so that couldn’t have happened." The more my eyes have been opened, the more I’ve been able to formulate an idea.'
A stupid and unworkable one, but hey, an idea’s an idea, I suppose!
She also credited actor Idris Elba's knife crime documentary (Ed; Oh, FFS!) for giving her the courage to launch her campaign.
She has the ‘courage’ to make an idiot of herself in public, but not to cook with sharp pointed objects?
...the brave teacher is launching Let's Be Blunt in conjunction with Knife Crime Awareness Week, and is calling for the widespread adoption of rounded kitchen knives. Ms Lucas is calling for all homes, manufacturers, retailers and the government to adopt the change and move away from pointed knives. She has suggested taking an inventory of all the sharp instruments in the home and explained that many will likely find more sharp knives than they had expected.
I won’t be doing this, I’m perfectly aware of how many pointed knives I have in the kitchen and I won’t be giving any of them up, no matter how sympathetic I might be towards the ordeal she experienced.
11 comments:
I have several.pointed (kitchen) knives. If I placed them on a table in public, and said, "Kill", nothing would happen. Like guns, knives don't kill people. People kill people.
Penseivat
Have these morons never heard of grindstones?
She's going to become like that annoying kid who campaigns for gun control in America
I have lost all sympathy for her, if she's too dim to understand how pointless (no pun intended) and unworkable this idea is
"Surely there are laws in place so that couldn’t have happened." Erm, yes. Murder is already illegal. Someone prepared to commit it won't baulk at buying an illegal pointy knife or sharpening a blunt one. Practising law teaches one nothing if not that more laws are rarely the answer – especially when the the ones you have are patchily enforced at best.
Oh no, lets not offend the stabby ape-men, lets give everyone else a hard time for having a knife that, y'know, actually WORKS. I have innumerable sharp items around the house, not least in case some stabby jig comes up the path, guess how many I will be giving up?
Spot on
Why woulf they? No-one ever forced them to keep their noses to one
Wasn't that a boy? David someone?
Indeed.
None - like anyone with any sense
Yes. David Hogg I think
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