‘You’ve got to do it with all knives’: would rounded tops help tackle knife crime?

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The yoga teacher who was present at the Southport attacks is heading a campaign that aims to get all knives in the UK made with a rounded tops in an effort to make them safer, and deter knife crime. Do people in Wales think that will help?

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00:00I would, I would. The trouble is, of course, with knives.

00:04Are you going to do that with every knife?

00:06Because people are going to go in and buy a kitchen knife, which is lethal.

00:10If you're going to round every knife properly, you've got to do it with all knives.

00:13Kitchen knives, every knife that everyone uses in a restaurant or a pub or a club or whatever.

00:18Yeah, I'd be in favour of that.

00:20Yes, definitely. I knew about that campaign and I would definitely endorse it.

00:25I agree with that, yeah.

00:27Do you think that would be a safer kind of alternative?

00:29Yeah, it would be safe with going out to it.

00:31It's a good idea, wouldn't it?

00:33We still stab them like me when we do ram it in if you go.

00:38Yeah, a bit safer.

00:40Yes, exactly, mate.

00:42In some cases, certain knives are being totally banned.

00:46You can still go out there now and buy these zombie knives

00:49and they're sort of sold as ornaments and put them on a wall.

00:52Some nice swords are still available in some of these lying cell shops.

00:56Oh, yeah, but they're ornaments for walls.

00:58You've got to sue lethal weapons, aren't they?

01:00You've got to sue lethal weapons, aren't they?

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