Next they will start outlawing baseball bats, or similar club-like appliances. Lengths of pipe, anybody?
The only places I know of where they take sharp objects away from adults are psych wards and jail.
The only places I know of where they take sharp objects away from adults are psych wards and jail.
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
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?”
British Doctor wants ban on spoons to end obesity in England!
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.
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...
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.
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.
Please tell me this is satire.
At a philosophical level, these “banning” laws are all about the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals believe in the group, not the individual. Therefor all control of individuals is thru the group force of government. It becomes a substitute for rational thought.
For conservatives, they believe in the individual and individual responsibility for ones own actions. The individual is self regulated thru moral teaching of right and wrong.
For 50 plus years, liberals have chipped away at the notion of individual responsibility. They’ve help remove God, and therefor morality, from teaching. We are now reaping the fallout form their relativistic non-jugemental notions.
Doctors treating the symptoms and not the disease. . . .
When kitchen knives are outlawed, only outlaws will mince onions.
The futureWe are heading back to the Stone Age.
And since a man was once killed with the jawbone of an ass, no jawbones of asses will be allowed.
When they outlaw pointed sticks, only outlaws will have pointed sticks!
How about pointy sticks? [/Brit accent]
That’s always the thing to remember with Britain. They are only about 60 million, compared to over 300 million here. Factor of 5 and change difference in populations, so a million brits vs a million Americans, they’re experiencing whatever five times more across their population than we are.
PLus their numbers are shrinking and they can’t stop offing their elderly citizens fast enough through neglect, mistakes, deliberate euthanasia, or long waits for care that the person dies waiting for care (indirect euthanasia).