If the knife is properly sharpened, which it should be so as to negate the
need for a point to beging a cut, it would be a savage weapon in a crime of
passion. African nations with strong gun laws and few guns have seen
machetes used to hack people to death. Where there is a will there is a
way. Blugeoning by toaster or electric can opener would be better? We are
an ingenious species and will use whatever is at hand.


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As many of you may be aware, (from the "you can't make this stuff up
department"), several physicians in England are advocating that "long
pointy knives" be banned from the general public's availability, saying,
"Government action to ban the sale of such knives," they wrote, "would
drastically reduce their availability over the course of a few years."

It is not "quite" as silly as it sounds. I have used chef's knives for 30
years and have never used the point; occasionally on one of the smaller
knives, but never on the big ones.
If the point serves no purpose, and eliminating it would prevent a few
crimes of passion; why not?