Judge calls for fake gun ban (UK)

BBC ^ | 25 March 2002 | staff

[45Auto]

When cigarette lighters are banned, only....oh, forget it!

[Sangamon Kid]

Better outlaw the thumb-first finger combo too.

[45Auto]

This is a real opportunity for the Brady Boob to relocate to London where she can start up a group called CLCI, "Cigarette Lighter Control, Inc."

[45Auto]

" Busari sped off in a Ford Fiesta.."

What kind of two-bit criminal would risk jail over a Ford Fiesta?

[goldstategop]

Let's go after toy guns too. They could be mistaken for the genuine article.

[Jonathon Spectre]

I said it yesterday. I'll say it again. I can't wait for Britain to turn into the Third World hellhole it's racing towards becoming. It will give the entire world an object lesson in this, the three-dimensional physical universe, of the utter lunacy and bankruptcy of the "Third Way" philosophy, the oxymoronically-named "democratic socialism". We will get to see a centuries-old Western nation with a long and glorious history degenerate into something that looks like 1993 Mogadishu. Any Brits who care in the least little bit about being free at all need to get out right now.

[mattdono]

I am trying to think of some analogies to the stupid logic of these judges.

Why aren't these judges talking about a ban on criminals. Or, how the penalties are going to be so strict that someone wouldn't even dare use a gun (or a fake gun for that matter) to perpetrate this type of crime. They are in the position to do something about crime in the first place! I just don't understand it.

So I guess we need to amend the famous statement, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" to "Guns don't kill people, people kill people, but fake guns help you rob people."

I am having trouble thinking of comparable stupidity in logic (though, I am sure much exists). Perhaps some of my FREEER friends can help list similarly stupid logic.

[tracer]

Will violators of the ban be arrested by actors dressed as constables and then tried in a moot court??

[Lost Highway]

The name Fiesta was just irresistable.

[ElkGroveDan]

Hey haven't prisoners done this with guns carved out of soap and black shoe polish?

I think it's time for the liberals to call for a ban on soap and shoe polish (since they typically don't use either of those anyway).

[mattdono]

ROTFLMAO!

[the]

They will have to ban soap, too, just to be sure no one carves a gun out of soap.

They have apparently banned toothpaste already, though I am not sure if that ban was done for public safety reasons. :-0

[the]

One lousy minute!

[TC Rider]

Foolish victims, why did they give up their cars, didn't they know that all the real guns had been confiscated?

[mattdono]

Exactly, because criminals are required under law to not own guns. These silly citizens should have known that. SSShhheeesssshh < /sarcasm>

[ElkGroveDan]

[luvzhottea]

Rudy Giuliani ex-Mayor of NY would have loved this Judge
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[Stefan Stackhouse]

Some of you will remember that one of the very best scenes in one of the Pink Panther movies involved one of these fake gun/lighters.

[lentulusgracchus]

What can you say about a guy who brings a Bic to a gunfight?

[Atlas Sneezed]

Isn't it already illegal to threaten force to steal from someone?