Get your coconut cutters while you can.
Posted on 01/18/2005 10:22:23 AM PST by neverdem
Implying that we would say things to hurt people is a HATE CRIME. Cut out his tongue!!!
Don't forget scissors.
Taken apart and sharpened they can be as deadly as any knife.
In the very first form of "gun control", in feudal England only Noblemen could carry a sword. That's why the peasants were always in mobs with pitchforks...
They can always ban meat too. Make the peta people happy. You can cut tofu with a fork. Not those dangerous "assault forks" though. Those will have to go as well. Plastic sporks are all anyone really needs. Next up, garden tools.
The problem is the absence of Judeo-Christian moral values.
Pull it with visegrips
Pull it with visegrips
Scotland to license knife sellers
"We had a particular discussion on the issue of knife crime recently and we have agreed a package of measures that we will be consulting on early in the New Year," said Mr McConnell. "We will be putting forward the action we believe is required to tackle the scandalously high level of knife crime in Scotland."
He said that 50% of the homicides in Scotland in 2002 were caused by knives or other sharp instruments. He said too many young men thought it was acceptable to carry a knife or other offensive weapon.
"It is not acceptable. The law in Scotland must be clear, the system must protect innocent victims and the culture of Scotland, particularly in our cities, in relation to knives and violent crime, must change," he said.
BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor said the most controversial aspect of the proposals would be the new powers for police to search those they suspect of carrying a knife.
"The reason for the clampdown is that the knife culture, the possession of knives, is actually on the increase," he said.
The report is about London, CANADA!
It's on the other side of Lake Erie from Ohio.
BTW: The violent crime rate in Canada is twice that of the USA (don't hear much about that, eh?).
Q: How do you end a knife-fight?
A: Bring a gun.
The classic weapon of the Enlish feudal footsoldier was the English Bill, a kind of pruning tool. It was a long pole with a spikey end and a hook shaped pruning blade. You could pull a knight off his horse with the hook, and punch through the armor with the spike. But technically not a weapon, so peasants could own them.
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Brisk increase in the sales of sharp pointy sticks...
So much for:
Now that would me violent.
"... the results suggest... monkeys are far more skilled at understanding cause and effect than previously thought...
If monkeys already understand the use of tools in food-gathering, it's only a matter of time before they discover the concept of using tools as weapons. For now, they usually stop at flinging poop or perhaps biting, but scientists foresee a slippery slope to full-out monkey on monkey violence. It's time to ban rocks and twigs now, before it's too late. Oh, and ban poop, too.
Lordy, except when I was going to fly, I don't think I have been out of the house without a pocket knife since I was 5.
So9
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