[ClearCase_guy]

“What are you going to do if some maniac comes at you with a handful of logan berries????”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Another take.

Nanny State PING!

[La Lydia]

Next: pointy sticks.

[La Lydia]

Next: pointy sticks.

[PGR88]

In China, a kitchen cleaver is the weapon of choice. Not very long and pointed, is it?

[Liberty Valance]

Sad news coming from a country with such a distinguished history of sword making.

[Oberon]

I found out something when I was supervising a packaging line... when you eliminate the bottleneck, i.e. the one thing that is slowing the whole line down, you know what happens? You get another bottleneck, which is the second-slowest step in the process. Eliminate that, and you get a third bottleneck, and so on. As you do this your throughput gets greater and greater, but you should never believe that you are going to eliminate the last bottleneck. That's impossible.

Banning weapons is like that. The choice of weapons is irrelevant to a person's decision to commit murder. You may eliminate the weapon, but you should never believe that you are going to eliminate the last murder.

[GrootheWanderer]

The BBC article cited in this link is more than seven years old. Did they ever ban knives?

[Navy Patriot]

UK considering banning long, pointed kitchen knives for the past several years.

Good thing the UK has already trained those electric bench grinders not to grind points on those long blunt bread knives.

[Little Bill]

I have a very expensive collection of laminated steel Chefs Japanese knives, that they will pry from my cold dead hands.

[Jeff Winston]

After they’ve banned long, pointy kitchen knives, are they going to ban sharp pencils? Nail files? Screwdrivers? Fists? They can keep banning all these objects, but people will always find other means of inflicting injury or death if that’s what they really want to do.

Do you have a permit for that length of steel pipe?

[yank in the UK]

I live in England, and I read somewhere recently that they are planning on banning citrus fruit for health and safety reasons. Apparently the juice could get into someone’s eyes, so they aim to make it to where only licensed people can buy citrus fruit, after they have completed a health and safety course on how to properly cut citrus fruit, and of course they will be required to wear safety goggles, and Kevlar gloves, and the correct ear protection, and steel capped boots... The UK is a hopeless boob, they try to ban everything. Dumb@$$ Brits

[Buckeye McFrog]

Kitchen Knife Ban? But you see, Constable, this is my Drawing Room Knife. So it’s all perfectly legal as you can see.

[jonrick46]

I think soiled baby diapers will be next. No one should die the death of asphyxiation from a baby diaper.

[NormsRevenge]

butcher chickens.. not people. (you got a beef with that 8?)

ban volcanic eruptions too..

there are no limits to man’s barbarity or some’s ignorance as well., somewhere somehow somebody is gonna stick ya in the back eventually even maybe.

[TexasCajun]

Registering then, confiscating all screwdrivers not far down the road.

Two men were today found guilty of the murder of a father of two who was stabbed through the head with a screwdriver as he interrupted a car theft outside his home.

[left that other site]

The first murder was committed at the dawn of antiquity by Cain, a farmer. He killed his brother Abel, a shepherd. Guns did not exist and if it was pre-iron or bronze age, swords and knives were non-existent as well. So, by the context, we can infer that Cain killed Abel with a Big rock, or perhaps a flint chip, or his bare hands.

Abel was just as dead as if he were shot with an AR-15.

Humans will do what humans will do.

[GOPJ]

People are killed by alcohol too - that should be banned. And soon - especially wines that liberal elites like to drink. Also death by car is common - cars should be banned. And air travel - when a plane goes down - hundreds die at the same time... the essence of tragedy for some...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

As I posted in the earlier thread, I can’t stab anyone with my kitchen knife, but I can dismember someone with my Japanese cleaver, which I use for everything!

[GeronL]

ugh