It was supposed to be humor. Humor.
Posted on 03/14/2019 2:34:01 PM PDT by blam
Tory MP Scott Mann has attracted mockery on social media after calling for strict new knife control measures including for every blade sold in the UK to be fitted with GPS tracking systems.
In a post on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, the representative for North Cornwall went on to declare that Britain should create a “national database” of people who own knives, “like we do with guns”.
Anyone found to have carried a knife outside their property “had better have a bloody good explanation”, Mr Mann wrote, adding that there could be “obvious exceptions” for activities such as fishing.
Responses to the MP’s suggestion included ridicule, as well as many questions not only on the considerable expense of fitting every knife sold with GPS tracking equipment small enough to fit into the handles, but also over the practicality of monitoring tens of millions of knives considering the UK’s high population density and the fact such systems are accurate only to about five metres, or just over 16 feet.
Surging knife violence including a fivefold increase in machete attacks over the past three years has led to a significant crackdown on blades in Britain, with many stores voluntarily taking kitchen knives off the shelves as lawmakers call for an increasing number of restrictions to tackle the problem.
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Do butter knives have to be registered, too?
Because that would be racist. The cops involved would likely be fired, and might face criminal prosecution.
Then, they’ll just outlaw grinders and files
The USA certainly doesn’t have the corner on idiot legislators.
My ex once went after me with one of those little wire and roller cheese slicers.
You could take a person down with one of those.
One layer at a time
Guess what, Mr. Colt was right about the great equalizer. Want to give your 105 lb wife a fighting chance against the 6'4" 200+ lb would-be rapist? Put a firearm in her hand, train her how to use it, and make sure she has it with her all the time.
Rocks are next.
Then I wouldn’t let her near a potato peeler either.
Official sounding man on phone: “Sir, the government has just detected - via GPS - that your 3-inch, stainless steel, butter knife has been moved from it’s secure silverware drawer, to your kitchen table...can you explain?”
“Yes”, replied the homeowner, “we’re having dinner and want to put butter on our bread.”.
Fed guy, “Thank you sir, and I’ll be looking for your 4561-1265 form - in triplicate - further explaining this incident, and signed by you, and all those who had contact with said butter knife. Have a good evening.”
And you thought banning straws was bad.
Will they also outlaw "Spooning"? How about pre-marital interdigitation? They are getting crazier and crazier.
What about men armed with Bananas?
It was supposed to be humor. Humor.
IOW, nothing but jello will now be served at the church pot luck.
Do scimitars, machetes and axes fall under this law?
You see your honor, when my fishing boat capsized the GPS chip must have shorted out.
Source.... the Onion, right?
Are you sure this is not Babylon Bee???
Yeah, I’d sure hate to get forked.
A swinging kettlebell of any weight can impart significant kinetic energy.
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