First they came for the Guns

But I did not speak up, becuase I was not a gun

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4581871.stm
from JoeUser Forums

Now, in what can only be called a comedic opera, Physicians in England, where there is one of the strictest gun control laws on this planet, are calling for the banning of knives!  Yep, no more apple paring or steak eating.  The English want to ban knives.

A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase--and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

What next baseball bats? (Excuse me, Cricket Bats).  For all you gun control advocates. you have just met the enemy and he is you!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
My my...however will they butter their crumpets? How stupid. Not surprising, from the country that outlawed any and all hitting of children for any reason. Liberalism run amok.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
For Safety Sake, BAN FREEDOM!!!!

Do you realize how much less crime we would have if everyone were required, by law, to obey the law!!!! ;~D
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

My my...however will they butter their crumpets? How stupid. Not surprising, from the country that outlawed any and all hitting of children for any reason. Liberalism run amok.

The scariest part is that I think it has a good chance of passing!

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

For Safety Sake, BAN FREEDOM!!!!

Do you realize how much less crime we would have if everyone were required, by law, to obey the law!!!! ;~D

I think they already did that.  Or are very close to doing it!  Today Knives, Tomorrow Baseball Bats, and then cars!!!!! Mwuhahahahaha

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
ANYTHING can be used as a weapon.....you can strangle someone with a spool of thread, if you have enough of it, or even an article of clothing. You'd have to ban literally everything to keep any weapons at all out of reach.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Liberals at their best.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
If someone wants to kill you, they'll find a way. The largest mass murder in NYC prior to 911 was done with a single dollar's worth of gasoline and a match, killing almost 100 people trapped inside a nightclub.


Maybe that's the reason for high gas prices, they want to make it so a dollar's worth of gasoline won't hurt anybody. Have you noticed that there aren't such attacks in countries with $5 (or higher) per gallon gasoline prices? Hmmmmmmmm ;~D
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

ANYTHING can be used as a weapon.....

I guess they go after those anythings soon enough.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

I guess axes are next. My Husband once lived in a British neighborhood that had 3 or 4 unrelated ax murders over the course of a single summer.

I figured the Axes would be a part of the Knife ban.  You know the assault knives, commonly known as Axes????

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Liberals at their best.

Yea, but they {Heart} you.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

Maybe that's the reason for high gas prices, they want to make it so a dollar's worth of gasoline won't hurt anybody. Have you noticed that there aren't such attacks in countries with $5 (or higher) per gallon gasoline prices? Hmmmmmmmm ;~D

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

#9 by Dr. Guy
Tuesday, May 31, 2005





ANYTHING can be used as a weapon.....


I guess they go after those anythings soon enough.




And just "where" would someone buy one of these "anythings"?
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
And just "where" would someone buy one of these "anythings"?


At the Anything store. You dont got one?
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
As any inmate can tell you, a knife is easy enough to MAKE...just watch an episode of "Oz".
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
As any inmate can tell you, a knife is easy enough to MAKE...just watch an episode of "Oz".


That's why I laugh at the whole "ban" of weapons thing. I doubt there isn't a home in the US that doesn't have the makings of a pretty hefty weapon of mass destruction. ;~D
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
As any inmate can tell you, a knife is easy enough to MAKE...just watch an episode of "Oz".


With a little more difficulty, so can guns.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's why I laugh at the whole "ban" of weapons thing. I doubt there isn't a home in the US that doesn't have the makings of a pretty hefty weapon of mass destruction. ;~D

Some of my neighbors do question my RPG, but them damn gophers are pesky critters!
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've been saying for ages that Britan has a nigher rate of stabbing and slashings because they don't have guns...so this didn't really come as a surprise to me.

When are people going to see that it's not necessarily the weapon you have to worry about, it's the person behind the weapon?! Take away guns, and people will use knives. Take away knives, and they'll find something else to use.

What's next, a ban on hands to reduce the amount of stranglings?
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
What's next, a ban on hands to reduce the amount of stranglings?


Good point, although it just might work. I wonder what the recitivism rate for thieves is in countries where they take a hand. ;~D
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

What's next, a ban on hands to reduce the amount of stranglings?

That will be interesting!  And with no hands, knives will be harder to use as well!

Good point!  Wish I had of thunk of it!

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

Good point, although it just might work. I wonder what the recitivism rate for thieves is in countries where they take a hand. ;~D

Not as high as unexecuted/non LWOP murderers I bet.