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I believe they tried to ban what I call butcher or kitchen knives awhile back. What complete nonsense.
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England used to be a country with real guts. What a shame.
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A Society the actions of which indicates that their belief is the crime is as much in the instrument as in the action of the person. This is a never ending futile pursuit. What psychology is at work that they are so deceived? Time to reconsider the intent and the result of these legislated prohibitions. Criminals or those inclined to criminal actions will either use the "banned" instruments or simply move to the next inanimate object which can be used in a violent fashion.
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Lawn mower blade, a bench grinder, and some duct tape. Presto chango... a Samurai Sword.
England is hardly alone in this nonsense. Check the status of 'Automatic Knives" in your community.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Some people are killed every year because kids drop bricks on cars from motorway bridges. I think bricks should be banned too.
Oh, and bottles because people sometimes hit each other with bottles in pubs.
Some people drink or drive badly and crash cars into others causing untold death and destruction. So, we should also ban cars. Can I have a job in government please - this banning stuff lark is fun!
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And lets not forget the more people are seriously injured or killed by medical malpractice than by firearms in the US every year - perhaps we should ban doctors and hospitals, too.
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It's not for me to be arbiter of what other people do, Greg, but don't think for a minute Tommy hasn't got guts. When you look at the goings-on everywhere, from presidential aspirants to current governance, liberal, conservative, dictatorial, there's enough nonsense to go around. Great Britain is the Mother of Parliaments, a great democracy, responsible through the Commons and councils to the wishes of its people and, not least, for more than 200 years a willing and gallant ally of the United States. (I'm a little sensitive to broad accusations today because Canada's parliamentary ethics committee is currently probing a political scandal besmirching and impugning the integrity of honourable people.)
I guess I'm obligated to give an opinion of remarks concerning another country and its citizens. If I should criticize Americans for what they do, I'm not not anti-American i.e. Americans are mediaeval for clinging to capital punishment (although New Jersey rescinded its legislation today). If I should criticize Americans for being a nation of cowards, lacking guts---for what they "are"---that is anti-Amertican, spiteful and on the evidence not true.
On the evidence, the British people don't lack guts however they choose.
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Yes, most WHITE folks in US get frightened pretty easily. Just look at what golden white boy was able to accomplish by using scare tactics.
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