Posted on 02/13/2006 9:28:37 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Ban forks? From my cold, dead hands, sir. 8^)
Didn't some fellow in the UK put up barbed wire to protect his mom, only to have the cops force him to take it down 'cause it might hurt one of the perps?
What a sad country the UK is becoming.
When blades are outlawed, only outlaws will be able to shave.
Fruit is next.
In 1935, the Sunday Express warned that "the gangsters have come to Britain. Glasgow, second city of the empire, frankly acknowledges their reign of terror. A thousand young men ... rule the poorer districts. Their insignia of office are the broken bottle, the razor blade, the cosh, the knife and - newest and most effective of all - the bayonet".
Glasgow's Evening Times reported one brawl in 1931 in which a brass-headed poker, a three-foot-long iron rod with a hook at each end, a Gurkha knife and "the spear of a swordfish" were used.
The gangs and their leaders were famously disrespectful of authority and convention. In response, the police, under Sir Percy Sillitoe, fought force with force and were nicknamed Sillitoe's Cossacks. Sillitoe even went to Chicago in 1933 with FBI chief J Edgar Hoover, to compare lawlessness in the two cities.
Why they can't fight with submachine guns like normal laddies I just dinna know...
This law would put my entire Boy Scout Troop in jail. We just about REQUIRE the kids to carry knives.
This woman's a member of Clan Grant??
This is what happens when you allow weak-kneed hand-wringers and crypto-marxists into the MSM and politics. The reporter should have been culled at birth or at least not allowed a university education.
People have grown to be such Nervous Nellies that it is a miracle they're able to leave their homes...not to mention going anywhere without their therapists tagging along for immediate soothing. The authorities in the U.K. would likely choke if they saw the "dangerous" 3-inch blade on the knife I carry virtually everywhere:
This handy little item accompanied me for years on over ninety foreign and domestic airline flights. It never once jumped out of my pocket to cause trouble for anyone in any of the far-flung places I've visited. It is still the perfect tool for spreading cream cheese on bagels, opening snack foods packed in mylar, slitting envelopes, or slicing the plastic on new CD purchases. This tool is used at least a half-dozen times per day around the office and in my suburban home.
~ Blue Jays ~
On the contrary, it is not the threat of 'forks' that wakes me up -- screaming in the night in a cold sweat.
It is the threat of someone attacking me with a swinging sock-full of used watch batteries.
The only conceiveable course of action is to ban all socks and wristwatches.
Since the problem is knives can the people get their guns back?
Coming soon: The unveiling of the landmark 'Maximum Fingernail Length Initiative'.
Heh. Didn't Monty Python have a skit about how to defend yourself if attacked by someone wielding a banana?
The real mean ones use sporks.
No, no! Pointy sticks next.
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