Meanwhile, in the U.K. (knives, again)

[Old Dog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coroner-urges-army-to-stop-giving-ceremonial-daggers-to-retiring-soldiers-after-couple-murdered/ar-AA18ncki?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0304611ac7f84bc7942a
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In Britain, where a coroner has a platform on the international news media.

Ban the tradition of giving retired Army soldiers a ceremonial dagger, because one guy kills with his...

As stupid and over-the-top as many of the calls to ban certain weapons are in this country, no calls for banning ceremonial daggers (one would presume, also the ceremonial swords some of us got), YET.

As I have some English heritage, and have visited, I cannot imagine living anywhere in the U.K. now in that climate of fearfulness.

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[Hooyah DeepSea]

And if a war starts again, they will beg for arms and ammo, again. it's the same old story, over and over.

 

[sikhed]

Ban the giving of superbowl rings to the winning team members!
They will inevitably be used in a slingshot to murder

 

[nwo]

Sharp things bad.

 

[made in china]

Ban words, too. Because words hurt

 

[ilikegunspdx]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coroner-urges-army-to-stop-giving-ceremonial-daggers-to-retiring-soldiers-after-couple-murdered/ar-AA18ncki?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0304611ac7f84bc7942a
f10243dde1bf&ei=285
In Britain, where a coroner has a platform on the international news media.

Ban the tradition of giving retired Army soldiers a ceremonial dagger, because one guy kills with his...

As stupid and over-the-top as many of the calls to ban certain weapons are in this country, no calls for banning ceremonial daggers (one would presume, also the ceremonial swords some of us got), YET.

As I have some English heritage, and have visited, I cannot imagine living anywhere in the U.K. now in that climate of fearfulness.

Maybe they should just ban everything. Table knives, forks, box knives, Saran Wrap with the little cutting edge. That way no one would get hurt. Oh if there were just more laws and more rules to bow down to then everyone would be safe.

Fing idiots. Human beings will never be 100% safe no matter how many laws they pass.

 

[Old Dog]

Ban words, too. Because words hurt

Aren't we doing that here now? On a related note, I was reading an article about rifle slings, and the author states that we don't use the term "African carry" anymore, it's now "safari carry." We do have a de facto banning of words here now, ask any high school or university teacher/professor -- they actually are told what words they cannot use lest they "trigger" a student or commit a "micro-aggression."

The PC crap, the woke-ness is getting unbearable. We change the names of sports teams (whose original ownership or leadership chose the names that represented bravery, warrior ethos, nobility) but the Native Americans still call themselves Indians and the EQC sign still says "Puyallup Tribe of Indians" in bright neon.

Maybe they should just ban everything. Table knives, forks, box knives, Saran Wrap with the little cutting edge. That way no one would get hurt. Oh if there were just more laws and more rules to bow down to then everyone would be safe.

Fing idiots. Human beings will never be 100% safe no matter how many laws they pass.

They pretty much have banned everything over there. Strict knife laws and a lot of hoops to jump through just to be kitchen and chef's knives. It's frickin' insane. A worse nanny state than New York or California.

 

[titsonritz]

At least no one was shot, isn't that the important thing?

 

[Bacchus]

At least no one was shot, isn't that the important thing?

No, that's not the important thing, that's just an inconvenient truth. Ban guns anyway!

 

[sikhed]

At least no one was shot, isn't that the important thing?

Plenty of firearms smuggled from eastern Europe.
Just the criminals have them of course.

 

[Bacchus]

Just the criminals have them of course.

And the government. If there's a difference.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

 

[made in china]

Fing idiots. Human beings will never be 100% safe no matter how many laws they pass.

Laws alone aren't enough, but laws and high taxes will fix EVERYTHING

 

[Flopsweat]

I love this bubblegum. First, they (essentially) banned guns. That didn't work so then they banned carrying knives. That didn't work so they banned mugs in bars. That didn't work so they banned insults. That didn't work so the imported a million fighting age males from bubblegumhole countries. That didn't work either. What to do, what to do?

 

[DunRanull]

And if a war starts again, they will beg for arms and ammo, again. it's the same old story, over and over.

Screw 'em, sick of our country getting involved in THEIR wars...

 

[titsonritz]

Screw 'em, sick of our country getting involved in THEIR wars...

I'm pretty sure we dragged them into the last couple.

 

[DunRanull]

I'm pretty sure we dragged them into the last couple.

You mean, of course, the First and Second World Wars, in which we had no treaty agreements in either case... or the more recent Gulf wars, where we DID have mutual agreements... in all four, seems like we forked over the $$$$$$ in any event.
JMO, YMMV

 

[Bacchus]

Maybe they should just ban everything. Table knives, forks

That's why the Chinese use wooden chopsticks, their government did ban metal utensils.