We’ve seen attempts at BB-gun control, machete control, even pointy-knife control.
Add one more to the list — Samurai sword control:
The sale of imitation samurai swords could be banned by the end of the year, the Home Office announced today.
Importing or hiring the weapons could also be made illegal following a string of samurai sword attacks in recent years.
Who the hell rents a samurai sword?
Vernon Coaker, the Home Office minister, said today: “Samurai sword crime is low in volume but high in profile and I recognise it can have a devastating impact.
The plans are outlined in a consultation paper, Banning Offensive Weapons, published by the Home Office today.
At present there are 17 weapons, including knuckle-dusters and batons, on the Offensive Weapons Order.
Here’s a PDF of the “Banning Offensive Weapons” paper, courtesy of the Home Office. Money quote:
The most common types of weapons used were knives (used in 7% of all BCS incidents of violence), hitting implements (7%), and glass or bottles (4%).
Got that? Bottles are used almost as much as knives. Next up, bottle control.
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It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch.
Home Secretary: “Ordinary decent people in this country are fed up with the constant barrage of Samurai sword crime, and we intend to do something about it!”
Ordinary Decent Citizen: “I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not. But I’m sick and tired of being told that I am!”
I can see renting a hari-kari knife, though.
Liberal stupidity is a slippery slope indeed… A Vaseline smeared incline near a thousand foot crevasse.
Did you say Monty Python?
“Self-defense Against Fresh Fruit”
How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it’s quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him ‘elpless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKTSwAVaoU&mode=related&search=
What would Butch Coolidge have done without the big sword (though I don’t think it was a Samurai) in Pulp Fiction? Poor Marsellus would have been history.
The Brits’ liberal, socialist laws have enabled the baddies to take over. One of every 3 burglaries in Britain occurs when the victim is at home. My son had a frightening experience while spending the night at a friends’ home two doors down from ou rs.
Homeowners are confined to something called “proportional force”. If the burglar in your home has a 6 inch knife, you can’t use a 12 inch one to defend yourself, or you’ll be the one going to jail.
They are too blind to see that taking away the homeowner’s right to self-defense has emboldened the baddies, and think the solution is more regulation!
No doubt this additional regulation will increase the proportion of “hot” burglaries from 30% to 50%.
#5 mrygill2
“Proportional force?” No problem. I’ll use force that is 5 times greater. That’s a constant of proportionality of 5. MyForce = 5(HisForce).
Ask Duhmoose. He’s the one who knows how numbers work.
I wonder what they’d do with a “Flying Guillotine”?
http://entimg.msn.com/i/MartialArts/MasterFlyingGuillotine_300×298.jpg
I am sure all of the criminals will willingly comply, after all, thugs are so mindful of the law. What a fascinating progressive society.
Seriously.
It never fails. As soon as I say, “the next thing you know, they will be outlawing (something ridiculous)” I look at my RSS reader and someone has a news dispatch from London about a new law outlawing (something ridiculous). What’s in the water these people are drinking?