(2008-05-31) — A rash of 11 recent stabbing murders in London has spurred the British Parliament this week to take up debate on a bill to extend its strict gun control laws to also ban knives and other deadly weapons such as rope and cricket bats.
The legislation would ban “switchblades, Leatherman Tools, buck knives, mutton knives and similar offensive weapons.”
“To stop the pain and bloodshed, we need to get to the root causes of this violence,” said an unnamed Member of Parliament. “Despite our longstanding ban on defensive guns, people still hurt people. This will never stop until we get these weapons off the streets and out of the homes of our helpless populace.”
Under the terms of the proposed measure, Britons would be forced to buy a license to carry a cricket bat, a dangerous bludgeoning weapon measuring up to 96 cm long and weighing up to 1.4 kg. Even licensed bat owners would only be allowed to carry the weapon to and from cricket matches, and only if locked in a government-approved case.
While “cricket rage” murders do not yet rank in the top 10 causes of death, officials say that could change as soon as knives are banned.
The bill would allow a homeowner to store rope, wire and cable for personal use, but only in lengths of less than 30 cm (about 12 inches).
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1 meesterbig // May 31, 2008 at 10:00 am
… and after someone is bludgeoned with a gubmit-approved cricket bat carrying case, they’ll have to amend the law again.
Why is it the gubmit fails to pass laws that cover every conceivable possibility?
2 Beerme // May 31, 2008 at 10:11 am
Nicely done, Scott!
I would point out, however that you need to remove the word “could” from the last sentence, as I believe it’s presence is not really needed…kinda like gun laws…
3 Scott Ott // May 31, 2008 at 11:45 am
Thanks.
4 JamesonLewis3rd // May 31, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The Brits use giant vacuums attached to tanker trucks to keep the streets and highways free of the high volumes of blood that’s gushing, running and dripping everywhere.
Chainmail, often accessorized with a leather-covered shield, is the latest rage in London’s fashion circles.
Needles and thread, in high demand throughout the UK, are being air-lifted to key points of the battleground.
Bandage price-gouging is rampant.
5 RedPepper // May 31, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Sigh. When will they ever learn ?
These efforts are doomed to fail unless they are willing to take the next logical step and ban - marbles ! Just wait until the next crime-wave hits - gangs of sneering punks scattering these deadly little glass beads under the feet of unsuspecting pedestrians, causing them to flail about uncontrollably, fall to the ground shrieking, break their necks and die horrible deaths !
Ban ‘em before you lose ‘em !
( … you pathetic Euro-weenies ! )
6 Darthmeister // May 31, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I think there ought to be bans on step ladders, garden hoses, tire irons, five gallon buckets, and backyard swimming pools. Do you neo-kkkons realize over 450 children died from backyard swimming pool drownings last year? If nothing else … we must ban these dangerous items FOR THE CHILDREN!
I mean, last year eleven children died drowning in five gallon buckets of water, about five times the number of children who died from civilian assault rifles in America last year! It’s absolutely true!
And it’s about time we outlawed all household chemicals which send millions of children to the hospital each year and are little more than loaded guns laying around the house! LET’S STOP BIG CHEMICAL COMPANIES FROM POISONING OUR CHILDREN!
Maybe messiah Obama can change America even more and outlaw all these dangerous items for our own good. To heck with Benjamin Franklin and his anachronistic rant about those who would trade essential liberties for a little temporary security. There is a brave new America on the horizon and now, more than ever, we need gov’mint to make it safer for all of us!
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 31, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Gee, only number six to the game. I snoozed and hardly loosed. Bad English-sort of goes with bad teeth, which English are known for. But if you knock them out with crickets, well just what can I say.
This is my opinion. Cars made by British Leyland were as nearly as dangerous as crickets and bats. About the time you hit 75 mpg, if you could go that fast, the Lucas ignition parts would go haywire, then who knew what dangers lurked in the minds of mad men (and women).
Is the world better off since the Brits gave up making dangerous and banned autos? Only the shadow knows
8 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 31, 2008 at 6:09 pm
well, make that seven
9 Fred Sinclair // May 31, 2008 at 7:12 pm
MRW,I #8 - Over the many years, I have owned a good number of cars, including Mercedes, Porsche, all manner of American made cars.
The number one, best (by far) was a 1965 Rover 2000. I was stationed at Ramstein A.B. Germany and the day I got it, I drove it directly to the local Bosch dealer. (It cost me a pretty penny.) Fortunately a friend had told me that you can spill a glass of water 20 feet from an English Auto and it will probably short out, due to it’s Lucas electrical system.
The dealer replaced 100% of every Lucas electrical item with the Bosch parts. A few years later, while deep into a major stupid spasm, I sold the Rover and had never had an electrical problem.
So you are totally correct with your Lucas comment.
Heirborn Ranger
10 JamesonLewis3rd // May 31, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Query:
I just saw some show on FOXNews and not one of the 4-5 talking heads even mentioned what I consider to be the actual context of a comment they had chosen to discuss.
I had to chuckle as they smuggly nodded their heads, looked pious in their close-ups and took turns describing The Hill & Bill Show as the blood-thirstiest psychopath since Michael Myers mindlessly rampaged after a luscious Jamie Lee Curtis with various and sundry sharp implements.
Then, I ceased to chuckle and began to wonder:
Is this what people really think?
If so, 2008 is going to get
11 Libby Gone // May 31, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Are they banning all cricket bats or just the fully automatic ones?
What happens if someone smuggles in a case of Louisville Sluggers?
What about pointy sticks?
12 JamesonLewis3rd // May 31, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Wilde: I don’t understand what I’m accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we’ll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch…THE CUSHIONS!
13 RedPepper // May 31, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Uh-oh.
First his grandmother.
Then his pastor.
Then typical, clingy Christian gun nuts.
And now, Trinity United.
I’m not the first to point this out, but it bears repeating : Barack, you keep this up, you’re gonna need a bigger bus!
14 JamesonLewis3rd // May 31, 2008 at 9:03 pm
BO kicked TUCC to the curb because he didn’t want them (TUCC) to be “burdened” or “scrutinized”.
Hmm.
15 MajorDomo // May 31, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Well, they will also have to ban liquor, beer and wine, since they contribute to many deaths every year.
16 RedPepper // May 31, 2008 at 9:39 pm
JL3 #14: Speaking of scrutiny, don’t you find it … interesting … that none of these stories ever “scrutinized” the TUCC congregation ? You know … those folks who were there in the pews, whistling, stomping, cheering and shouting “Amen! Preach it, brother!” and otherwise encouraging the Reverends Wright, Pfleger and … is it Moss ? Otis Moss III ? ? ? … as they raved and ranted and pointed the finger of scorn at the G-D white man ? I mean, if Wright is right there in the tradition of “the black church”, is this congregation typical too ?
But no matter … Barack could be out there calling fire and brimstone down on Amerikkka himself, for all the effect this stuff is likely to have on the Dems … we’ll see what happens come November, but nothing is gonna deter the Democrat party from nominating Obama ; better the demon they don’t know than the Beelzebubbess they do !
Wonder how Tom Jefferson would react, if he could see his party now …
17 MajorDomo // May 31, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Well they’re gonna have to ban liquor, beer and wine also, since they contribute to many deaths every year.
wv: It Dependents. Oh yeah? On what?
18 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 31, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Sorry Scott for printing the whole story but I seem to be having difficulty linking this story.
But, ya wonder why gas prices are high??? This is why da*n it
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Anti-refinery advocates stage rally of their own
5:43 PM
By Molly Montag Journal staff writer
SPINK, S.D. — Opponents of the proposed Hyperion Resources oil refinery and energy center are currently staging their own get-out-the-vote rally today at the Spink Cafe.
Although the event started at 2:30 p.m., it will last throughout the day and feature live music until dark.
Union County residents will decide in a primary election ballot question Tuesday whether to grant the Texas-based company the Energy Center Planned Development it needs to proceed with its plan to build a $10 billion, 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery and energy center in the southern part of the county not far from Spink.
Ed Cable, spokesman for anti-refinery group Save Union County, said he didn’t like to predict what the results of Tuesday’s election would be.
“We simply hope that we have one more vote than they do on Tuesday,” he said. “(And) I don’t think anybody knows or has a definitive poll that indicates how people are going to vote on Tuesday.”
In the hours leading to Tuesday’s election, Cable said anti-refinery advocates will continue their print and radio media advertising campaigns, educate the public on where to vote and arrange transportation to the polls when requested.
Earlier today, rally leaders gave speeches, held question and answer sessions and conducted a driving tour of the proposed site.
Due to the length of the rally and multiple activities, attendance was hard to gauge. However, approximately 70 people listed to a speech around mid-afternoon.
Sioux City Journal
A Clinton loving newspaper
19 da Bunny // May 31, 2008 at 11:01 pm
“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” Same goes for knives and cricket bats, I would imagine. **sigh** The world has simply gotten too stupid and evil for me to be able to stomach much more of the daily news of nothing but upside down nonsense.
20 Fred Sinclair // May 31, 2008 at 11:55 pm
RedPepper #13 - I tried the link you provided - USA Today ‘On Politics’ B. Hussein Obama has “officially’ resigned from Trinity. I read a bunch of posts in the comments section….seemed to be mostly libbers so I pasted a former post I made here (with some modifications), I’ll have to go back later and read some of the nasty lib comments about my post; Yippie! I guess I’m a troll on their blog. Feels good!
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B. Hussein Obama will be the DNC nominee and I couldn’t be happier. Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” has been an overwhelming success and since the liberal media picked the RNC’s SORRY EXCUSE for a nominee, this couldn’t have worked out better since he will be so much easier to defeat than HillBilly, Inc. would have been.
I no longer recognize Rep or Dem; I vote Rep since I need a handle but to me there are still two parties (1.) The Conservative/Constitutional Party and the (2.) Liberal/Socialist Party. Since I find most of the Conservative/Constitutionalists in the Republican Party, that’s the current “handle” I must use. Since the Liberal/Socialists are in the Democrat party, they are the ones I must attack! All of the former RINOS are in the #2 party. While former conservative Dems are in the #1 party ala Joe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut, I agree with Rush, “When Conservatives attack, we always win.”
Come to think about it, there have been numerous Republican losses over the years but with the exception of Barry Goldwater (and I’m not totally sure about him) I cannot recall a single Conservative loss in my lifetime. (and I’m 70 years old)
The only way Conservatives can lose is to become complacent, fail to attack and underestimate the attacks of the Liberal/Socialists.
Someone wrote, (I forget who) “There are no impregnable fortresses, only those ineptly attacked.” The Conservatives grow complacent, the Libs sense a weakness and attack.
The Commies have been playing that game throughout most of the 20th century.
The time is ripening for an all out attack by the likes of Jim Inhofe, Duncan Hunter, Governor Bobby Jindal, Governor Sarah Palin. etc. The libs won’t really fight (put on a show of course but that’s all).
The majority of Americans are conservative.”
21 Fred Sinclair // May 31, 2008 at 11:56 pm
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22 Fred Sinclair // May 31, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Huh?
23 Fred Sinclair // Jun 1, 2008 at 3:20 am
This is sooooooo funny!
My father was 50 when he married my mother, 51 when I was born, 57 when my brother was born.
He was 70 + 4 mos & 20 days old when he died.
As of today I am 70 + 6 mos & 19 days old and still going strong!!!
Scientists reveal dangers of older fathers
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
Last Updated: 10:18PM BST 31/05/2008
Children are almost twice as likely to die before adulthood if they have a father over 45, research has shown.
A mass study found that deaths of children fathered by over-45s occurred at almost twice the rate of those fathered by men aged between 25 and 30.
Scientists believe that children of older fathers are more likely to suffer particular congenital defects as well as autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study was the first of its kind of such magnitude in the West, and researchers believe the findings are linked to the declining quality of sperm as men age.
A total of 100,000 children born between 1980 and 1996 were examined, of whom 830 have so far died before they reached 18, the majority when they were less than a year old.
Perhaps this is instigated by the same scientist who assure us that Algore’s HOAX is real???
Heirborn Ranger
24 Fred Sinclair // Jun 1, 2008 at 3:23 am
Make that “HOAX is real” read “HOAX is really real.”
25 RedPepper // Jun 1, 2008 at 8:51 am
And right on time, cue the MSM! From the McClatchy Washington Bureau : Will Obama’s decision to leave his church silence critics?
Well, let’s think about this.
Member of TUCC most of his adult life - check.
He & his wife married at TUCC - check.
Children baptized at TUCC - check.
Still defends TUCC ( ‘He made clear, however, “I’m not denouncing the church and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church.” He said the church’s congregation does not hold anti-white or anti-American views.’) - check.
Et cetera …
On June 19th 1946, a reporter asked heavyweight champion Joe Louis about his upcoming match with Billy Conn, a younger, lighter, faster fighter. The Brown Bomber responded: “He can run. But he can’t hide.”
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