Originally Posted by benaakatz

if i was president I'd run on the platform of an "AK for every home" : )

You'll have the support of middle schoolers everywhere.

Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm

Dear lord..... I guess the idea of selling a knife for $80-$100 (US Dollars) without a point is really going to reduce crime. Nope.... bench grinders or files and thirty seconds I a normal knife.

Oh.... the pointy stick is Man's oldest weapon. I guess banning pointy knives will remove them from the streets in about three weeks.

What about slashing attacks? ice Picks? Screw Drivers? etc..... It's not the weapon. It's the intent of the user.

Will prevent fatal attacks? I can slash a human throat far easier and kill someone with that attack then stabbing someone. Cut the artery and the person will bleed out in about three minutes.

Dear Lord I can't this mindless crap. Sadly Obama wants to bring this Big Brother style of government stateside and there are a ton of idiot liberals that will support it.

Agree that this is mindless crap, but I do not see any connection to Obama whatsoever.

I see what they're trying to go at by creating this thing but it's still so mindlessly stupid. What's next, safety scissors for Britain?

We can't ban crazy people... What's the next best thing?

Birth control

Tell that to the Pope.

You know I read this thread and no matter how hard I tried I just can't bring myself to really give a damn what the British do and much like every one else I cant see how Obama fits into this in any way.

The concern is that ideas like this could catch on with some pretty influential groups in the US. No country is an island, except New Zealand it seems.
Tying it with Obama specifically though was a big stretch.

Actually we are several islands.
Woot us.

If the New Zealand government was dim witted enough to try and put through a policy like this there would lots and lots of laughter and then we would toss them out on their collective arses at the next election.

See not only are we an island we also understand voting and can tell the difference between good and bad government.

Only if the rest of us could have bits of land that was so far away from other bits of land.

On the other hand, what is so wrong with trying to reduce crime in a positive note? What's wrong to find a solution to all the stabbing going on in Britain? If I had a tottler I wouldn't mind such a knife. Does every initiative has to be focused on being better armed then "the big bad criminal lurking around my house ready to kill every living thing in my house"? Try to focus on something else the fear all the time.

Sure and now you can say: tell this to the victims etc etc. I just think that living your life in fear continuously you are a victim for your whole life. And I am not ready to do that. In short: perhaps a silly thing this knife, but I like the initiative!

The craziest idea were the 'low injury' bullets, (so presumably you would have to pump 3 times as much into your opponent to stop him) was it the Swiss who invented these?