UK to ban Swords

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Considering that the Finnish army is most of the male population of the country I seriously doubt the military could manage a coup unless the men went out to overthrow the tyranny of women.

Yes and I'd rather not have it nor need it, which I think is exactly where I am right now.

 

Well we'd never agree on any of this. I'm a military minded USMC veteran and you're much more pascifistic.

 

I would not call myself very pascifistic. Of course if there's a simple choice between war and peace I'll naturally choose peace but these things never come so easily. I'm ready to defend my country against outside invaders (If I weren't I would not have gone to the military) and to be quite frank they are the only ones I see as a threat to my personal freedom. As long as democracy works the threat is nonexistent, and unless there's an outside force providing the army the government will have tough time going totalitarian.

As far as personal protection goes, I'm more likely to be run over by a drunk driver than be killed by some psycho breaking in to my house. So really I figure unless you live in a hostile enviorment owning a gun for protection is paranoid to say the least. However I do think it's your right to own one, if a gun under your pillow helps you sleep better then it's fine with me.

 

I've lived in America btw, in LA, so, trust me, I "truly know". I dispise you people coming here with that "ohh, nanny state Britain, soon they won't be able to breathe" type attitude, and I can't believe your audacity, just look at gun crime in your own country. Allowing citzens to carry guns simply doesn't work, if it did, I'd be all for it, but it doesn't. Your crime facts and figures prove that. Gun crime here in the UK is almost non-exsistent in comparison. Allowing people to own these stupid samurai swords is even more ridiculous, and I am all in favour of any legistation which helps to deter people from buying them.

Now, before you get all defensive and start ranting and raving, I don't have much of anything bad to say about you or your country, I am just a little more than surprised at some of your attitudes in this thread.

 

This reminds me of a passage from Terry Pratchett's Nightwatch. I can't quote it from memory, but I believe it refers to the banning of weapons by the city ruler to curb crime. This resulted in the happy development of the citizens being unable to defend themselves while the criminals couldn't believe their luck!! And of course, being a criminal means you DONT follow the law...

Or something like that. I'd like to know what the good folks up in Parliament were smoking when they came up with this...

Edit: After reading Sarevok's post, I'd just like to add that I am not against the banning of swords as a representation of curbing citizens' rights in the UK. I'm just against devoting time and money to enforce such dumb laws when there's so many other more worthwhile causes they could focus on.