> The point of a knife is only needed in a handful of kitchen applications. Most knives do not need to be able to stab at all. Only cut.
But this isn't about what "most knives" need to be able to do.
This is about what everyone in the UK will be permitted to buy.
"I don't need to do X often, so why should I worry about it?" is a really, really bad attitude to take when your government is considering banning X for the entire country.
No, it's not. At all!
It's about what everyone not old enough will be permitted to buy.
Nobody is saying that pointed knives shouldn't be sold; they are saying two things:
1) children shouldn't be able to buy them (they can't)
2) behaviour modification might suggest that fewer such knives even have to be made, because they aren't as important as they seem, and that might keep more convenient knives out of the hands of very young misguided children
The law has created a situation where I as an adult can:
1) buy a pointed knife if it looks like I am an adult (or it doesn't and I can prove I am)
2) buy a non-pointed knife without proving it.
This seems acceptable to me. I expect to be downvoted without a meaningful reply for saying so, because that is the way of things here.
I appreciate your policing my attitude but I don't know where you get the complete nonsense that the government is considering banning X for the entire country for this X or any other. Because they are not.
We in Europe try not to assume that Marjorie Taylor-Greene speaks for all Americans. There are 650 MPs in the UK Parliament, and some of them are silly or misinformed. One or two are as stupid as she is. Try to take that in.