Hardly a day goes by that we do not read about some unfortunate individual who has been knifed, stabbed, sliced, slashed, gashed, cut, carved or punctured by some anti-social malefactor. Despite superficial differences as to motive, weapons and perpetrators, these crimes all have one thing in common. They were all done with a sharp instrument.
Throughout history, knives and bladed tools have played a shameful and sorry role—Julius Caesar was cut down by them; Macbeth deliberately chose daggers to butcher good king Duncan; Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday; Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary was slain by a knife. One could go on and on.
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