Crossbows, samurai swords to be banned (in Australia)

The Age (Australia) ^ | July 3, 2003 | Jamie Berry

[FreedomCalls]

Crossbows and samurai swords would be banned in Victoria, the State Government announced yesterday.

Police Minister Andre Haermeyer said Victoria was already preparing legislation, but a spokesman said machetes would not be included in the ban because they had a wide range of legitimate uses.

A former Trinity Grammar student was jailed last year after almost severing the arm of a teenager with a samurai sword at a party in 2000.

NSW Police Minister John Watkins called for a national ban on crossbows at the Australasian Police Ministers Council in Melbourne yesterday. The call follows a crossbow attack near Newcastle in April in which two teenage girls were injured. The Northern Territory is resisting the national ban because the weapons are used for controlling feral animals.

In Victoria, a police exemption could be given to enable sportspeople or collectors to own crossbows, Mr Haermeyer said.

"It is about making them generally unavailable to those people who just want to carry them around, either for self-defence or to commit deliberately aggressive acts," he said.

[FreedomCalls]

It's from July, but I didn't find it posted already. More Australian weapons-ban stupidity. If we banned everything that teenagers injured each other with, we would all be running around naked.

You know, I used to think Australia would be a cool place to live, but I see it more and more as a repressive nanny-state full of overreaching unions and high-tax-and-spend school-marm politicians who always "know what is best" for you lest you put your eye out.

[Hugin]

"It is about making them generally unavailable to those people who just want to carry them around, either for self-defence or to commit deliberately aggressive acts," he said.

Can't have the peasants going about defending themselves.

[John Beresford Tipton]

[joesnuffy]

Far cry from their forefathers who carved their livings out of some of the toughest land in the world..
But they derive their rights from king and kings man and not God or a Constitution
What a sad state for Australians to live in....be nice to see them take their country back from their oppressors

[LibWhacker]

Just when the Jihadists have made clear their intention to rule the world, Western countries get serious about disarming their citizens. What's wrong with this picture?

[Snake65]

Damn. Guess they'll have to re-shoot The Road Warrior with rubber bands and paper clips.

[Servant of the Nine]

I don't think it will be any problem to make a 30" machete with the weight and balance of a samuri sword. Use Stellite and you can make it sharper.

So9

[spunkets]

" but a spokesman said machetes would not be included in the ban because they had a wide range of legitimate uses.

Samuri swords make fine weed-whackers. Machetes suck.

[patton]

Now, without getting out of this chair, I can reach two swords, 4 guns, and more than a few knifes.

So what is the problem?

[u-89]

So I guess all those hard fought for war souvenirs the Aussies got off the Japs will have to be turned in to the government because those old vets are too irresponsible.

Then those Japanese immigrants who have family swords should turn theirs in also. After 600 years or so those swords are long overdue to hurt a teen. No sense pushing your luck. Thank God the government is there to keep everyone safe.

[Beck_isright]

It's going to be a bitch to eat a steak down there soon. What's next, forks will be banned and everyone eats with their hands? Australia is the perfect test nation for the future the U.N. wants for us all....

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[pierrem15]

So I guess we'll be dining with plastic silverware at the Outback, eh?

[tsomer]

If we banned everything that teenagers injured each other with, we would all be running around naked.

But not any safer! Think of all the rocks lying around. Even where you only have sand, you can probably find rocks, or just pick up some sand and throw it in the other guys face. Then quick kick him in the balls! (Assuming you're the type to do that sort of thing, which I'm not.)

Does anyone realize what a rock could do if it struck some citizen in a vulnerable area? (The head's vulnerable too, at least on some people.) I saw somebody get whacked on the head with a rock when I was a kid. He was lucky; he only needed stitches. But, he grew up to be a democrat! Now you can knock him in the head any time you like, he hardly notices! The damage is already done! Kinda funny, in a sad kinda way.

Rock control now! How many more innocents must we see killed, maimed, and emotionally scarred by this scourge! It is long past due: a sound, rational, rock control policy.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[FSPress]

The U.N. will be in for a surprise. Excellent selections of knives in all of the camping stores, which seem to be everywhere. The really impressive thing about the gun stores there, yes they have plenty of them, is the many lines of excellent high power rifle scopes. The other thing is that they are really bitchin pissed about what has been done to them regarding guns.

[bootless]

Does this qualify for a Just Damn?

[FreedomCalls]

Rock control now!

Don't give them any ideas!

[muawiyah]

Look, Australians are a particularly nasty and loutish sort of people. I recommend that they be limited to the humble "spork" as an eating utensil as well as a fighting weapon.

Then they will be safe!

[PoorMuttly]

Muttlys favorite toys !

Never mix weaponry with intoxicants. Witnessed a colleague do that once. He always practiced drawing his big, long, empty Blackhawk from a vertical Bianchi shoulder holster while "drunk," since he said "I figure that's when I'll be enough of an idiot to have to use it."

When he switched to nun-chucks...fortunately the neoprene-handled kind...and hit himself in the privates....Muttly unlearned a very important lesson.