Ban on kitchen knives!

[Hyllyn]

 That's the pinnacle of stupidity, but it happening here does not surprise me at all Gilly.

 I mean imagine if you had to do like Chefs do when they are actually doing the proper stuff! You have your own suitcase of knives, as in your knives set and you don't leave it at the restaurant, you take it to work with you and back home... I suppose you would get done for carrying the tools of your trade then.

[Cuthien, Wolf-maiden]

So if fingers could be weapons, too...what do we violinists do?

(Yes, I am well aware that that rhymed.     But it was unintentional.) 

No, seriously, why ban knives if the knives don't commit the crime themselves?  Why don't the PEOPLE know better, huh?  I mean, come on!  In some ways, it just seems as if the government wants too much power sometimes. 

[Lúthien Elanessë]

Banning kitchen knives, that's one of the stupidest things I have EVER heard of. What are they supposed to cut with, plastic knives?!

[Cuthien, Wolf-maiden]

No, not even those.  One could cause...gasp!...a scratch.  *shakes head at stupid politicians*

[morbid_mind]

i wonder if they truley think they'll accomplish anything by banning kitchen knives...

[The NOT So Magical Elf]

Next they'll be banning bare hands

Gotta love it when the gun control debate reaches it's ultimate conclusion, hehehehehe

well u can.. i suppose, if u know a martial art to a high enough degree...
because when u become an instructor, and u travel abroad.. you've gotta go and declare urself a leathal weapon in the embassy...

just so u know

[Beleriel]

i wonder if they truley think they'll accomplish anything by banning kitchen knives...

That is the sickest thing about it though isnt it?  The people who are most likely to cause trouble are the ones who wont take any notice of the ban anyway!!!!

It is control... the world has gone mad and want to control our every move!  Just watch out for the cameras.   

[Edge]

Suppose this is an example of the old adege "Weapons don't kill people- people kill people.

[The NOT So Magical Elf]

Suppose this is an example of the old adege "Weapons don't kill people- people kill people.

thats almost a quote from a queen song..
*clears throat,* "soz"

ye instead of baning kitchen knives, y not just make the penalty for carryin, hiding / using 1 more severe.. and perform id poliece chechs on all who wanna purchace em.

even so ppl will never change, crime is alwaws gonna be there, nxt if this goes ahead, it'll be stabbings with forks. or rusty spoons lol..

[Amy Lee]

Pah! I knew it...

Didn't I say they'd be after kitchen knives in that swords topic? And spoons...but that was a different reason...just taking the...yeah.

The government is ridiculous... Next they'll have us all walking round in bulletproof armour as a legal requirement, and they'll be putting foam coverings on animal horns!!

If this ban comes into place, I tell you what we'll end up using....When I worked in McDonalds, they had this big plastic green knife for cutting cabbages. It was quite a good knife for that, but as someone said...melons? I don't think so.

Remember those "guillotines" in school that cut paper? I bet they get banned next, so no one can trap their fingers...

Accidents will happen, and there's nothing we can do about it. Perhaps if they spent more time catching the criminals, stuff like this wouldn't happen. Most people who go around stabbing someone with a kitchen knife will already have a record of some sort. For normal people, we have to be pushed pretty far to even consider it... To do something like that, you must have a pretty short fuse, which usually means you'll at least have been involved in, say, a fight before.

The government should stress counselling and rehabilitation for aggressive offenders rather than banning the rest of us from using knives. I mean, come on - its not a case of the room of schoolkids throwing something then that person wont own up so they all get punished, is it? 9/10 times the offender is caught. So punish THEM.

[Icy]

If the Government want to stop murders, it's not knives they have to ban but people.

Knives do not cuase stabbings, the person behind it does!

I rest my case    And besides, they better not take my Dagger off me 

[Amy Lee]

Icy...I dont think they CAN take your athame off of you...

..Thats religious discrimination.

They best not take mine  I have a beautiful pearl-handled one with one of Jonathon Earl Boswers paintings on the handle. Its pearl and gold with a silver blade, with decorative etchings.

[Icy]

Yep, you can carry your Athame on you, in public too.  If you quote a certain part of an act (forgot which one  ) it states anyone can carry a knife if its for their occupation or religious purposes

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