It was only a matter of time....

[DRZinn]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2237699,00.html

Britain to ban samurai swords
12/12/2007 19:44 - (SA)

# 'Severed limbs in church'
# Samurai swordsmen attack diners
# Highlander hits supermarket
# 'Samurai' kills one

London - Britain plans to ban the sale of samurai swords because the weapons have been used in a number of serious, high-profile attacks.

The Home Office (Britain's Interior Ministry) said on Wednesday the swords would be added to its Offensive Weapons Order from April next year, meaning they could not be imported, sold or hired.

However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban.

"In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons," Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.

"We recognise it is the cheap, easily available samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the genuine more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to collectors and martial arts enthusiasts."

The Association of Chief Police Officers said the swords were not a common weapon but they had been used in a number of significant incidents.

In 2000, Robert Ashman murdered a Liberal Democrat councillor at the offices of Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones, who was also seriously hurt in the attack.

A year earlier, Eden Strang seriously wounded 11 people when he went on the rampage with a samurai sword at a Roman Catholic Church near his home in Thornton Heath, south London.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

It was only a matter of time.... until someone posts this story yet again.

 

[Javelin]

This is so hellarious!! They ban pistols so they can be safer.. nope criminals are still criminals! Darn. So now they are banning Sam swords to stop criminals from being well criminals.

Yeah that will do it! Brilliant!

 

[Prof. A. Wickwire]

The Association of Chief Police Officers said the swords were not a common weapon but they had been used in a number of significant incidents.

So which is it, are they uncommon or are they used in numerous incidents. Oh, wait, I get it. Six is "a number"

Fools and charlatans.

Sincerely,

Prof. A. Wickwire

 

[TallPine]

So what's going to keep somebody from making a sword out of an old leaf spring using a Makita grinder ???

 

[average_shooter]

So what's going to keep somebody from making a sword out of an old leaf spring using a Makita grinder ???

Simple, just make it illegal to do so. Didn't you know criminals follow such laws?

 

[SVT93]

Uhh Saturday night sam. swords?

 

[BullsEye10x]

Yes, they are mostly gold and nickel plated with pearl handles

 

[TallPine]

Don't take your sword to town, son
Leave your sword at home, Bill
Don't take your sword to town.

 

[takhtakaal]

Next up for outlawing, the sale of frozen legs of lamb:

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

 

[MD_Willington]

"In the wrong hands, <insert inanimate object here> are dangerous weapons," Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.

FIXED~!

 

[Javelin]

Next up for outlawing, the sale of frozen legs of lamb

Haha. Good analogy and use of literary citation.

 

[RLsnow]

haha we read Lamb to the slaughter not loong ago in english class (Norway english class)

was interesting story...and good show of how anything can be a weapon. (yes i believe you could kill someone with a frozen leg...those things are hard)

 

[rmarcustrucker]

By national decree all subjects of the British crown will now be banned from using pointy sticks, as injury may result. All children shall wear helmets at all times with the official decree of "from womb to tomb". ...infact... by national and ROYAL decree no sticks with dull tips will be aloud...no pensils or pens, forget about those silly butter knifes and forks are staight out. And since we brits don't do well with with our oral hygein, no tooth brushs or toothpicks.
If we get our royal butts into a fix we can call on the United States...until we can get more of those socialistic liberals to get the U.S.A in line with the rest of the world so we can be easily taken over.
We are the goverment and we are here to help...well....not really...we just don't trust you pointy headed little people to think.
By ROYAL decree there will be no pointy headed people, as points or not aloud.:banghead:

 

[Pigspitter]

You know whats the easiest way to kill someone with a sword, shoot them. Oh wait you can't, hopefully you'll do what needed to be done a long time ago and overthrow your socialist aristocracy.

 

[Vader]

They should also legislate laws to abolish forks and table knives, substitute them for chopsticks. I'm glad to be a "U.S. Citizen" and not a "british crown subject"
Note the lower case

 

[22-rimfire]

To think that our Constitution is largely based on British Common Law. Knives, swords, firearms.... don't they know that criminals are criminals and they can't protect people from themselves. It sickens me to read this. Guess axe's and chain saws are next. Need to get a permit to buy an axe, sounds about right. Lizzy Bordan took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks... Pretty high profile crime.

 

[CrawdaddyJim]

Picture this.

Mum comes into the den and says to Reginald (38 and unemployed as no jobs to be had).

Reg why don't you go out for a bit and see your mates?

Reg says, Can't Mum.

Mum, Why?

Reg, All me mates are in stir awaitin weapons charges.

Mum, why?

Reg, We was playing Cricket yesterday and the bobbies showed up and arrested everybody but me.

Mum, why?

Reg, I was takin stats in the dirt.

Mum, Whatever for?

Reg, Paper was outlawed last week as it has a sharp edge and you know writing instruments have not been allowed since that massacre at Bainbridges stationary!

Mum, Oh my! Well in the next election I am voting for Mr. Phulable as he will set things right.

Reg, We aint allowed a vote anymore Mum, Them in the House of Lords says we can't be trusted anymore than a 2yr old...........

 

[SageMonkey]

Next up, banning pointy sticks!

At least, I hear, they let you carry a knife in your sock if you're wearing a kilt. Using it is probably verboten though, better to be jabbed to death with a pointy stick than defend yourself.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

Fingers! It's the fingers that are the problem. Don't you see? Anything that's used as a weapon is held. Remove the fingers and you remove the problem.

Forget the side effects, it's the solution that matters. And if the little buggers start kicking - - - - - well then.

900F

 

[22-rimfire]

Those dirty fingers are always the problem. They have a very good solution to this in some of the Middle Eastern countries. What happens if you have a dirty mind?

 

[1911Tuner]

This is the sort of thing that happens when governments start to entertain the fanciful notions that their duty is to provide a safe, secure haven for its citizens. The people are viewed rather like small children who can't make responsible decisions for themselves...so they must be guided and directed in every aspect of their lives from cradle to grave.

Life is perilous. People get hurt and killed performing the most mundane tasks.
It's impossible to protect them by prohibiting everyday activities with common tools and impliments necessary to perform those tasks, and the only really safe way is to have governmental agencies that come to our homes to mow our yards...carve our turkeys...trim our hedges...clean our gutters...
pick us up in front of our houses and drop us off at work...and the list goes on and on.

Nearly any hard object can be used as a weapon, and the only way to prevent them being used to deliberately hurt somebody else is to take them away from everybody...and then they have to go around every day and gather up all the rocks and tree limbs and pencils and pens and antique vases and...it goes on and on.

Silliness. Life is not only perilous...it's temporary. Death is inevitible, and...if we live normal lives...injury at some point in the course of our lives is pretty much the same.

 

[MachIVshooter]

They should also legislate laws to abolish forks and table knives, substitute them for chopsticks.

Oh, I'm sure someone, somewhere has been stabbed with those evil things, too.

Fingers! It's the fingers that are the problem. Don't you see? Anything that's used as a weapon is held. Remove the fingers and you remove the problem.

Don't give them any ideas, man.

 

[Pigspitter]

If I were english I would be practicing my "place your head between your legs" stretch for the next time someone decides to try to invade.

 

[Justin]

Closed as duplicate.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=323488&highlight=sword