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British Doctors Call for Ban on Long Kitchen Knives to End Stabbings
Frontpage Mag ^ | 12/27/12 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/27/2012 9:09:36 AM PST by Nachum

The good news is that if we ever do get that assault rifle ban, followed by a handgun ban, followed by a ban of anything that can shoot bullets, the “Banners” will still have a banner year of banning all the other ways with which people kill other people.

Violent crimes haven’t gone away with the UK’s gun control. They’ve actually gone up.

Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504

Instead of gun crime, the UK worries about knife crime. And has been practicing knife control.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ban; banglist; british; bullystate; doctors; guncontrol; idiots; knifecontrol; knives; morons; nannystate; numbskulls; policestate; secondamendment
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1 posted on 12/27/2012 9:09:45 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Next they will start outlawing baseball bats, or similar club-like appliances. Lengths of pipe, anybody?


2 posted on 12/27/2012 9:13:42 AM PST by alloysteel (Bronco Bama - the cowboy who whooped up and widened the stampede.)
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To: Nachum

The only places I know of where they take sharp objects away from adults are psych wards and jail.


3 posted on 12/27/2012 9:15:33 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Nachum

The only places I know of where they take sharp objects away from adults are psych wards and jail.


4 posted on 12/27/2012 9:15:33 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Nachum
For some perhaps. I've spent serious money on the knives in my chef's bag. From little bitty razor sharp paring knives to 12" long carvers that can double as a short sword.

I'll not be giving those up, not the factory made, not the custom made.

Yet another law to ignore if they try it here.

/johnny

5 posted on 12/27/2012 9:15:33 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: alloysteel
Next they will start outlawing baseball bats, or similar club-like appliances. Lengths of pipe, anybody?

At least baseball bats wouldn't be a problem in Britain, since no one there plays baseball.

6 posted on 12/27/2012 9:16:50 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Nachum

They make shivs in jails and prisons. If bad people have a will, they’ll find a way. Short knives can also be very dangerous. What about shovels, boards, tire irons? Will people be left with anything at all that won’t eventually be gist for being taken away from people that liberals don’t find “dangerous?”


7 posted on 12/27/2012 9:19:49 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

If a person has managed to stab you once, you will probably be in a state of shock and unprepared for a quick second stabbing, or possibly a third.


8 posted on 12/27/2012 9:21:38 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Nachum

British Doctor wants ban on spoons to end obesity in England!


9 posted on 12/27/2012 9:23:03 AM PST by paratrooper82 (We have been deserted by this WH and left to fend for ourselves in Afghanistan! Both hands tied!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Cricket bats? ;-)


10 posted on 12/27/2012 9:23:10 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Too unwieldy.

Golf clubs.


11 posted on 12/27/2012 9:24:23 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Nachum

If you are afraid of the government you are its slave. If it is afraid of you, you are its master. Words to live (free) by.


12 posted on 12/27/2012 9:24:38 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Nachum

They can have my santoku when they pry it from my cold dead hands. Nor can they have my Kukri (in spite of the fact the only blood it has ever tasted is my own, damnit), or my Ka-Bar... Ok, they can have the french style chef’s knife. I’ve never cared for that one...


13 posted on 12/27/2012 9:25:49 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Don Corleone

How will they outlaw tree limbs and rocks?


14 posted on 12/27/2012 9:26:24 AM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Nachum

I can go along with the idea that we should try to eliminate the factors which result in the taking of innocent human life. But let’s examine ALL of these causes throughout history, and not just the current vogue. Based upon the historical data, one might suggest banning Marxist/atheistic totalitarian governments.

Mao 75 million;
Stalin 50 million;
Hitler 25 million;
and then we might give also ran’s to Pol Pot, Castro, etc.

150+ million certainly dwarfs individual acts of random violence by 6 or 7 orders of magnitude. I can hardly wait until the press starts vigorously supporting my idea.

Second place award might go to Islam, which has waged unrelenting jihad upon the civilized world for 1400 years.


15 posted on 12/27/2012 9:26:26 AM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Jonty30

LOL, now that would cause an outcry in Scotland!

Don’t forget tennis rackets, croquet mallets, and umbrellas! Then there is that Hitchcock story about the woman who killed her husband with a frozen roast, cooked it, and served it to the police investigators. That would give the food nazis another excuse to ban meat.


16 posted on 12/27/2012 9:28:21 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Fiji Hill
alloysteel ~ Next they will start outlawing baseball bats, or similar club-like appliances. Lengths of pipe, anybody?

Fiji Hill ~ At least baseball bats wouldn't be a problem in Britain, since no one there plays baseball.

Pointing that out isn't exactly Cricket...

17 posted on 12/27/2012 9:30:25 AM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: Nachum

Also to be banned will be knife producing equipment and material such grinding wheels, files, and pieces of metal longer than 4 inches (10 cm). This will require the immediate confiscation of all motor vehicles, metal appliances, and dumpsters, which could be a major source of knife production metal.

Anticipating the eventual switch to wooden or plastic knives, all pieces of wood and plastic longer than the above mentioned lengths will be banned.

Anticipating the eventual harvesting of wood from trees by illegal wood knife fabricators, all trees with branch length longer than the above mentioned lengths will be cut down or regularly trimmed to prevent illegal branch lengths. Such trees must be registered with the appropriate authorities.

Other materials and equipment may be added to this list in the future. These regulations are subject to change with no less than a 30 second warning.


18 posted on 12/27/2012 9:30:25 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Freestate316

Well, that’s what leftists are trying to do: turn the whole world into a mental institution, or a prison.


19 posted on 12/27/2012 9:31:18 AM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: Nachum

Please tell me this is satire.


20 posted on 12/27/2012 9:31:36 AM PST by mykroar (BAD-ANON: One Game At A Time)
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