because nobody can sharpen a stick with a rock, right???
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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Baseball bats.
How about creating a “national database” of people who own broken glass?
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Subjects have no true ‘rights’.
Only what the government is willing to let them have.
And ironically, the mere size of the prison hardened, weight pumping thug is now the unequal weapon that no government control.
-sorry (most) women, weak and elderly. You are natural victims, with no natural rights.
what about tea kettles ??
GPS trackers on the bearded savages to monitor them as they begin the march back to their home countries. That’ll cut down the violence.
Not entirely true, but they certainly can't be used for self defense. Plinking is allowed.
Put a tag on it like a mattress.
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Don’t be giving A.O.C. any new ideas.
We have a similar problem here in the U.S....the only qualification to become a politician is a lack of patriotism, lack of common sense, absolute lack of problem-solving capability, total lack of high moral standards and unbelievable greed...........
because nobody can sharpen a stick with a rock, right???
The USA certainly doesn’t have the corner on idiot legislators.
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We’ve got the U.K. beat all to pieces.
It sure seems that way. My diagnoses is that the root of the problem is the party system. It is a system of patronage and sycophancy. The parties literally pay for votes in Congress through the seating on committees and the direction of national campaign funds. They even have a position called a “whip” who has the job of ‘whipping the party members’ into voting on legislation the way the party bosses want. If you don’t go the way they want, they can take you off a committee which is a reduction in your salary and of course your exposure. If you still rebel, they don’t provide you the same resources for re-election (less money, fewer high profile people campaigning and fund raising with you, fewer volunteers to walk the precinct and handle the phones etc). And in the extreme they back a challenger against you.
Even when a Congressperson retires, who gets the seat? The retiree often hand-picks the successor who then gets the support of the party.
Both parties have this same problem. When it comes to national politics, the Democrats are worse because they have a huge number of Superdelegates and they assign the state voter delegates in proportion to the votes received. So in theory a person could run for the Dem nomination, come in 3rd or 4th place in every state, and still win the nomination due to the support of the Superdelegates. In the GOP this would be practically impossible because it is mostly winner take all for the state delegates.
In any case, if it were up to me, I’d remove party identification from all ballots. We all have the right to belong to any group we want, but we don’t have to print that information on the ballots. Let the voters choose based on the candidate not the party.
Stupidity is infinite, but that won’t stop UK Progressives from testing the limit.
“Anyone found to have carried a knife outside their property “had better have a bloody good explanation”, Mr Mann wrote, ..”
Says Mr. Mann of North Cornhole.
Guess I won’t be eating crab in GB. I would humor my mother-in-law by joining her in eating crab. My wife and I would bring leatherman pocket tools to assist in breaking the meat out of the shell. Leatherman tools include a knife. So, are Leatherman tools banned in GB?
I was going fishing your royal nothingness.
Why not just register knuckle sandwiches while they’re at it? Teeth? Shitkickers? Register every human right to self defense.
I think I've been forked a time or two..
I think I’ve been forked a time or two..
HA!! Yeah dat too...!!
“U.K. Lawmaker Calls For All Knives To Be Registered, Fitted With GPS Trackers”
this is totally ridiculous ... they shouldn’t consider such legislation until GPS knives can also be bio-keyed so that they’ll only cut for their registered users ...
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