Samurai Swords

[dukalmighty]

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

"We recognize 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 councilor 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

What next steak knives,but only cheap ones

[Lykoi]

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

"We recognize 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 councilor 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

What next steak knives,but only cheap ones

10yr Old Girl Arrested for Felony after Bringing a Knife to School to Cut Her Lunch

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Student Arrested After Cutting Food With Knife
10-Year-Old Charged With Possession Of Weapon On School Property

An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said.

The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was charged possession of a weapon on school property, which is a felony.

According to authorities, school employees spotted the girl cutting her food while she was eating lunch and took the steak knife from her.

The girl told sheriff's deputies that she had brought the knife to school on more than one occasion in the past.

Students told officials that the girl did not threaten anyone with the knife.

The girl was arrested and transported to the Juvenile Assessment Center.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story

http://www.local6.com/news/14857286/detail.html

seems it's too late on the steak knives...

[HighVelocity]

"10 year old girl brings weapon to school".


This really irks me. Since when did a steak knife become a weapon first and an eating utensil second? A sharpened pencil can be used as a stabbing weapon too. Does this mean that it's use as a writing instrument is it's "secondary" function?

[Skiprr]

"10 year old girl brings weapon to school".

This really irks me. Since when did a steak knife become a weapon first and an eating utensil second? A sharpened pencil can be used as a stabbing weapon too. Does this mean that it's use as a writing instrument is it's "secondary" function?

Well, I'm not too worried on a personal level. Three years ago I got my KCL: Kitchen Cutlery License. I am allowed to transport cutlery--even up to a 12" Santoku--to and from a federally-licensed cutlery dealer (FCL), and to store and use cutlery inside my home. I can even store cutlery in an openly-visible location, and have one of those wall-mountable magnet bars that hold cutlery. I do, however, keep a locked edge-guard on my cutlery.

Some people have tagged me a "cutlery nut," and I even keep stainless steel forks at home. I know it's fashionable nowadays to use disposable utensiles made from biodegradable, compressed-and-formed corn cellulose byproducts, but steel forks and cutlery were good enough for my parents, and their parents before them, and they're good enough for me!

Ahem. [/satire]

[Bodacious]

They already want to ban knives:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

[kdom]

When are people going to realize the only true weapon in the human brain - everything else is just a tool. If someone has the intent to kill, the choice of tool just determines how much effort is required and how much risk they expose themselves to...

[Xander]

I wonder how they plan on enforcing the ban on rocks, when they get around to it? (And you know that at some point they *will* want to try and ban rocks, once they managed to sufficiently reduce the populace's access to stabbing/slashing weapons.)

Yet another reason I'm glad we kicked their red-coated behinds back across the pond.

[Keith B]

When are people going to realize the only true weapon in the human brain - everything else is just a tool. If someone has the intent to kill, the choice of tool just determines how much effort is required and how much risk they expose themselves to...

And the lack of a brain in some people causes them to ban those useful tools.

[Sarah81]

I have a friend who lives in England. She's always liked swords and knives. It seems that she'll have to give up her collection now. And I'll bet anything that, if the government offers her any compensation for the money that she invested in them, it won't be the actual amount that she spent on the things.

[DoubleJ]

I wonder if this'll affect those in the "Body Art" industry. I mean, you could definitely do some damage to somebody with those piercing needles!! 'specially the ones for suspension!

[Heartland Patriot]

Two thoughts on this subject. One, most of the time its a knee-jerk "feel good" measure to make the uninformed believe that their government is doing something to keep them safe (and does nothing of the sort, so it has to be one-upped the next time). And two, there are those who don't care if bad guys use weapons, they just don't want the "sheeple" to defend themselves...makes them just that much less dependent on government.

[74novaman]

No kidding. A 4 year old zombie...its gotta be stinking pretty bad by now!

[Lambda Force]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

[Skiprr]

For those trying to figure out why AndyC posted what he did, the offending "thread necromancer" post has been moved to the Moderator's forum. Not only did it bring a four-year-old thread back to life for absolutely no reason, it contained a commercial link in the signature line.