Author Topic: Knives Handed In At Police Stations (Read 3258 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #75 on:** June 05, 2006, 08:20:35 AM »

sparks... do I understand you to say that you believe that the government can't protect you or your family and that it is up to you to do so yourself and that... you should be allowed any weapon that you feel will work to do so with the only restriction that if you commit a crime with it.... you should be appropriately punished?

If so... that is very good. I have been to england and talked to a lot of people there. Nice folk but.... they have a really strange view of guns and Americans so far as I am concerned.

also... in lucksters defense... talking to folks here that are from your country is interacting. for you and nashwan tho... He is correct also that the most important thing is the direction the laws are going... America and britan are going in oppossite directions on freedom to defend yourself.

The UN? I would disband it if I had the power and have most of the people in it arrested for being con men.

also... the article on shootings in the uk... they hit on the solution without admitting it. The solution is allways to make the penalty higher for the crime...not to ban the tools. If you banned guns in the uk but had no penalty... people would all have them anyway. They don't fear bans... they fear the penalties.

lazs

lukster · « **Reply #76 on:** June 05, 2006, 08:42:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Did you know that they arrest Texans for being drunk in a bar too?

Crazy world.

Nah, that lasted only a couple of weeks.

I'll never deny that we have our share of "reformists" in this country or my state, those who would protect us from ourselves while taking control from themselves. Men in general, especially Texans, can be kinda lazy. We might not fight for a woman's right to have a dildo, especially if you consider that might cheat us outta some fun, but don't mess with our guns or bars.

lukster · « **Reply #77 on:** June 05, 2006, 08:50:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Sparks
Errrrrrr .... yes. It's an effort to get the UN involved in world ( the whole big blue ball thing we live on - Texas is a small part of it) arms control - you know - like selling AK's to the somalis. Yes handguns are in there but so are RPG's.

This isn't a handgun thread and it's an irrelavent point. Your handgun would be as useless to you as it would to me if you had the self protection laws we have in the Uk - that's the crux of it.

This thread is about the perception by some that a failed but much hyped PR stunt by a bankrupt government is in some way an indication of a submissive general populace. If it inflates your machismo to believe it then go ahead. Unfortunately it's not the truth.

I remind you that the largest bunch of fighting troops you have standing next to you in combat theatre is usually made up of that British populace.

So it's not just handguns but all guns those in the UK want the UN to control. That makes it so much better. I admit to ignorance of the knowledge that can only be gained first hand, can you estimate what percentage of the population of your country is behind this movement? The only things I have to go by is your current laws and what I read.

BTW I appreciate the fact that Brit troops are with us in the middle east. I will also give my moral support to those in your country looking to take back their manhood.

lukster · « **Reply #78 on:** June 05, 2006, 08:52:44 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
Very true, so very true. All too often, they make the mistake of judging one country from the perspective of their own. So it's not surprising that they can't make any sense of the results of such a judgement. I always remember when I was living/working in the US at the time of the 1981 Toxteth/Croxteth riots, and the local news media was reporting "civil war" in Britain. No internet access back then, so in the absence of any proper newspapers (sorry, but the Oakland Times does not win any awards for international journalism - LOL) I phoned my brother, who lives now as he did then in the south of England. I asked him about this "civil war" - the US media made it sound like Basra - LOL! And his reply was something like "oh no, it's just a bunch of yobs engaging in copycat violence and wanting to have a punch up with the police. Otherwise, life goes on much the same..."

Of course, the same thing works in reverse - one has to be careful how one interprets foreign news reported in British newspapers.

Lukster sounds like a shades account - less than 200 posts in 6 years, and now 12 posts in this one thread?

Shades? No. I announced in my first post with this account after 1 1/2 years or so that my akiron account wasn't working.

lazs2 · « **Reply #79 on:** June 05, 2006, 08:53:13 AM »

BTW... I just sent postcards (provided by the NRA) to four people in the UN that are, or can be involved in the big UN gun grab.

If you value your freedoms you should be letting the UN know that you do not want their meddling in our laws.

lazs

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #80 on:** June 05, 2006, 09:08:16 AM »

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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
what you're all failing to note is that the vast majority of the knives handed in will be by parents who confiscated them from thier 13yo children.

Adults who want to be armed can and do get away with it.

the knife amnisty is to protect our children from killing each other in schools. It was introduced (not for the first time) after a series of violent murders where the victims and attackers were all unde the age of 18.

make it a joke if you want, or maybe you think its good to see a group of school kids 'free' to arm themselves with weapons that kill.

Did you write this as a joke? No one can be that irrational.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #81 on:** June 05, 2006, 09:13:47 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
We're handing off our rights HERE just a 'meekly' as they were lost over THERE.. time we dropped the arrogant 'it won't happen here' BS and had a look around our own backyard.

Amen.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #82 on:** June 05, 2006, 09:15:45 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Our curent government may be on it's way out. Lot of unhappy people, no denying that. We won't be looking to replace it with one more liberal or socialist than what we have though, count on that. Our illegal immigration problem will be one of the central issues in our upcoming elections.

and will be dealt with as it is now. THEY'LL waste "millions" and DO NOTHING about it. Stop posting your drivel.

lukster · « **Reply #83 on:** June 05, 2006, 09:43:24 AM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
and will be dealt with as it is now. THEY'LL waste "millions" and DO NOTHING about it. Stop posting your drivel.

go fish

Kaw1000 · « **Reply #84 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:19:46 AM »

You can have my butter knife when u pry my cold dead fingers off of it!!!:rofl

Curval · « **Reply #85 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:23:41 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Nah, that lasted only a couple of weeks.

That's interesting. Before the thread was deleted (as it was deemed a troll because it was posted by a non-Texan) discussing this there were all kinds of Texans saying the same law had been in place for years and that it was no big deal. Now you are saying it only lasted a few weeks.

Weird.

lukster · « **Reply #86 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:27:43 AM »

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Originally posted by Curval
That's interesting. Before the thread was deleted (as it was deemed a troll because it was posted by a non-Texan) discussing this there were all kinds of Texans saying the same law had been in place for years and that it was no big deal. Now you are saying it only lasted a few weeks.

Weird.

Public drunkeness has been against the law for a long time. Bars are considered to be public places but only recently did law enforcement decide to harrass patrons inside a bar. It didn't last, they are no longer doing it.

beet1e · « **Reply #87 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:37:14 AM »

LOL Curval! ^ You know which bit

Lukster = AKIron: Hey! Welcome back!

Not sure which "rights" we "so meekly gave away". If you're talking about what I think you might be talking about, it's not an issue about which the average Brit gives a fork. Or in other words....

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #88 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:42:33 AM »

Watch out Beetle them forks are nearly as sharp as knifes and with 4 prongs they are clearly assault forks! Obviously, anything that can be used as a weapon must be banned. Afterall, the average person can not be expected to be responsible for themselves.

lukster · « **Reply #89 on:** June 05, 2006, 10:43:56 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
LOL Curval! ^ You know which bit

Lukster = AKIron: Hey! Welcome back!

Not sure which "rights" we "so meekly gave away". If you're talking about what I think you might be talking about, it's not an issue about which the average Brit gives a fork. Or in other words....

Thanks for the welcome back.

Giving away the ability to defend yourselves is what I was talking about. It would seem that Sparks would disagree with you on the reading on that careometer though.