Author Topic: England to ban swords to curb violence (Read 789 times)

Cypher · « **on:** March 07, 2007, 08:51:37 PM »

See Rule #5

Meatwad · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2007, 08:58:12 PM »

Cricket paddles

Xargos · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:03:58 PM »

They will genetically engineer all their offspring without arms and legs.

Bronk · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:45:31 PM »

At some point they'll be banning shoes. Once the first person is beaten to death with one.

Bronk

Vulcan · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:51:14 PM »

Ahem: http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199928

What was that saying about throwing stones in glass houses?

mars01 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:57:12 PM »

OK now I didn't read the article but the topic it precious. I can see it now...

"England bans frowning. You are no longer aloud to frown at someone. It was said too many people are getting their feelings hurt."

LOLHAE!!!!

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2007, 11:03:12 PM »

Try carrying a knife with a blade over 6 inches anywhere in the US.

john9001 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2007, 11:08:42 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Try carrying a knife with a blade over 6 inches anywhere in the US.

i carry a loaded gun.

edit, you don't need a 6 inch blade to kill someone, a shorter one will do, you just have to know where to put it.

Makarov9 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2007, 11:53:54 PM »

No spoons for you!

rpm · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2007, 12:02:39 AM »

In 1979 I was flying home on leave from SeaTac to DFW. I had a connecting flight at San Francisco International Airport. While hanging out in the bar I hear my name called to go to the white courtesy phone. I find one, answer and am suddenly whisked off to a small windowless room because I had a knife with a 10 inch blade inside my locked checked luggage. I was active duty at the time and the knife was standard gear bought at my ship's store and was stowed inside my locked seabag.

After a 30 minute interrogation and background check I learned they had no sense of humor. They asked me why I had the knife in my luggage. Was I trying to hijack a flight? I told them they stumbled onto my evil plan. I joined the military went to boot camp, spent 2 years on the Bering Sea to buy a knife on my ship to carry home on leave inside my locked checked luggage so I could claw thru the floor of the plane midflight with my bare hands and break into the cargo area, find the knife among all the other luggage unnoticed by anyone and hijack the plane to Havana.

I was finally allowed to board my connecting flight to Dallas after I took the knife and sealed it in an envelope and wrote my name on it. I took that envelope and placed it inside a cardboard box, sealed and signed it. I put that box inside another box then sealed and signed it. When it was all said and done my knife was inside a 2foot by 3foot box with a rainbow of reflective tape and writing all over it. Yeah, I'd never find that if I wanted to...

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2007, 12:12:16 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Try carrying a knife with a blade over 6 inches anywhere in the US.

I do all the time when Im working. Sometimes when Im not working. Cops tend to only mess with people about that based on where they are and what the person looks like.

I used to get messed with alot more often for carrying a buck knife when I was younger. But the cops always gave it back to me.
Now I carry anythign from a buck knife to large extendable razer knives such as the ones used on 9/11 only a larger version if them and I dont even get so much as a second look

England however is getting absurd

BTW NJ is going to be following Californias lead and banning the sale of 50 cal rifle ammo.

Logic is, cause " Terrorists can use it to bring down an airliner" or so I heard on the radio.

Yea, that aughta stop em.

God how I loath feel good laws

TinmanX · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2007, 01:01:17 AM »

England - under 2000 gun related crimes per year
USA - 89 deaths per day by firearm

England - 850 murders per year
USA - 26,000 murders per year (one every 22 minutes)

You can scoff at England's view on weapons all you want.

rpm · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2007, 01:32:19 AM »

Dred, did you know a Bowie knife is illegal in Bowie, Texas?

Xargos · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2007, 04:11:54 AM »

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Originally posted by TinmanX
England - under 2000 gun related crimes per year
USA - 89 deaths per day by firearm

England - 850 murders per year
USA - 26,000 murders per year (one every 22 minutes)

You can scoff at England's view on weapons all you want.

But we still have better teeth.

JB88 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2007, 04:17:20 AM »

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Originally posted by TinmanX
England - under 2000 gun related crimes per year
USA - 89 deaths per day by firearm

England - 850 murders per year
USA - 26,000 murders per year (one every 22 minutes)

You can scoff at England's view on weapons all you want.

how would that work out once you have factored in for the mean given population and scale?