First Your Guns, Next Your Knives
Friday, May 27th, 2005I think we all saw this coming:
A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.
A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase – and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.
They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.
The research is published in the British Medical Journal.
You know they won’t stop with long knives. Once they get long knives, they’ll go after short knives. Once they get short knives, they’ll go after pen knives. Once the get pen knives, they’ll go after plastic knives, and on and on. This insanity will never stop.
Do these people know that all they are doing is creating a whole bunch of people who will be unable to defend themselves against any kind of assault? If I lived in Britain right now I would seriously consider a life of crime, simply because at the rate they are going the entire population will be easy pickings in a year or two. Do they really think that the best way to reduce the rate of violent crime is to unarm the victims? Do they realize that criminals, by their very nature, will not obey this law and continue to arm themselves with whatever they want to commit their deeds?
Of course, we can sit back, point, and laugh at these people now. However, you know that there are people in the US right now who agree with this idea and will try to sell it here. If you ask me, that’s scary.
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May 29th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Whats next? Pointy sticks? stones?
May 29th, 2005 at 10:00 am
Cars can be dangerous too…perhaps they should take everyone’s car!
June 2nd, 2005 at 5:32 pm
“Banana’s” before “Pointed Sticks.”