05-26-2005, 23:40
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Life after gun control?
Article about doctors in the UK who want "knife control".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm
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05-27-2005, 00:21
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Dear God. I lost IQ points just thinking about their position.
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05-27-2005, 06:09
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Three words: Cold dead fingers.
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05-27-2005, 08:03
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I think recently I read on a nursing website that a nurse was murdered at a UK hospital with a sword ?
Ban kitchen knives. Someone should tell the good Docs that in prison you can make a nice shiv with a sharpened toothbrush so better ban those as well.
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05-27-2005, 09:03
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Originally Posted by jasonglh
...with a sharpened toothbrush so better ban those as well.
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Have you been to England? It appears they banned toothbrushes long, long ago. 
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05-27-2005, 09:04
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Aricbcool, Good catch.
The entire United States cutlery industry has been tracking and fighting the anti-firearm movement as it swings around to take it's aim at cutlery.
If my following statement offends anyone, especially from Great Britain, I'm saying sorry in advance. Sorry.
I can easily imagine finding a group of chefs in England who say the pointed kitchen knife is not useful. Of course they are too refined to need a "point" for their knife, that "point" thing is for the great unwashed on the other side of the Atlantic.
HOLY CRAP! Outlawing points!!! Who is going to judge what knife point is or isn't a point. I can make a square pointed chinese style kitchen knife that is lethal, maybe all the British knives should have a round safety bar welded onto the end of every blade so there is no point. No, that won't work either, then it becomes a hammer...
They deserve themselves over there.
Again, Sorry.
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05-27-2005, 09:23
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Just a footnote to my previous post,
The article states that kitchen knives in England are used for assault when drugs or alcohol are being used . Nothing in the article about the alcohol or drugs being part of the problem. So we have a culture that will not address personal responsibility and it's all the knives fault.
Banning particular knife shapes and styles has been tried by many cultures and countries over the centuries.
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05-27-2005, 10:25
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The article states that kitchen knives in England are used for assault when drugs or alcohol are being used . Nothing in the article about the alcohol or drugs being part of the problem. So we have a culture that will not address personal responsibility and it's all the knives fault
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Yeah! Let's ban the alcohol too! Oh, wait a minute..that doesn't work. What these people don't realize is that you can ban shit until you're blue in the face, and people will still find a way to get high and/or kill each other. A guy can sniff lighter fluid off a rag and then bust your head in with Shaolin Monkey style. It's a cold world, blood.
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05-27-2005, 11:26
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Knife Control is being able to properly cut your steak.
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05-27-2005, 12:28
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I see a cross promotional opportunity here...
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Knife Control is being able to properly cut your steak.
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...said the spokesman for PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) 
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05-27-2005, 15:44
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God forbid anyone see the amount of stabbing's with screwdrivers. I've read someplace that screwdrivers were the most commonly used stabbing weapon. I'll research it and link it if I can find it again.
Sears, Home Depot and Lowe's would tank if this would get in the hands of some knee jerking liberal.
Imagine the hysteria in garages across the nation.
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05-27-2005, 17:19
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God forbid anyone see the amount of stabbing's with screwdrivers. I've read someplace that screwdrivers were the most commonly used stabbing weapon. I'll research it and link it if I can find it again.
Sears, Home Depot and Lowe's would tank if this would get in the hands of some knee jerking liberal.
Imagine the hysteria in garages across the nation. |
You're only supposed to use a screwdriver if their attitude needs tweaked or maybe tightened up a little.
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05-27-2005, 18:26
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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Aricbcool, Good catch.
The entire United States cutlery industry has been tracking and fighting the anti-firearm movement as it swings around to take it's aim at cutlery.
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Absolutely. It's a terrible slippery slope that the government has been sliding down.
It's all about trading Freedom for Security. You can't have both.
But, since the lawmakers are held responsible for the bad things that happen "on their watch", they are usually all too happy to trade in their constituents' freedom for security of person, a security that extends to the politician's own career in office.
Personally, "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson
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05-27-2005, 18:42
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I wonder if they'll ban sculpture, since chisels have sharp (though not pointy) ends. Same goes for wood carving.
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05-27-2005, 21:50
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Nambyism.
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