Knives crackdown may sever ties with history

[Kirkwood]

Make wepons illegal and the only ones to have them will be the criminals.

[Graham]

Make wepons illegal and the only ones to have them will be the criminals.

very true!! it happened in Australia, not that I am an advocate of hand guns, but the ban on guns of certain types here has done nothing to reduce gun-related violence.

[bubba]

very true!! it happened in Australia, not that I am an advocate of hand guns, but the ban on guns of certain types here has done nothing to reduce gun-related violence.

Graham, such bans never work. To make it effective you'd have to completely stop worldwide prroduction of weapons and parts. Fat chance of THAT happening.

[highlander_Daz]

I remember Jack the lad promising the Skien dubh would be exempted from legislation. Unfortunatly scotland does have a knife crime problem , but thats because all the police are in the station filling in forms or attending Diversity courses.

[Rufus]

I split this thread and deleted the last 2/3 of it because it had become completely off topic as well as heading into a political fight.

[Sir Robert]

Knife Control is like gun control, this is something that the English have been trying to force up our kilts for a long time. This non-sense from the Scottish Parlement is a sure sign that anybody worthwhile left Scotland before 1850.

[bubba]

Knife Control is like gun control, this is something that the English have been trying to force up our kilts for a long time. This non-sense from the Scottish Parlement is a sure sign that anybody worthwhile left Scotland before 1850.

Lots of Scots think it's pretty stupid too. It's the idiots politicians and the do-gooders you have to watch out for. They need to be smacked down every so often.

[Geoduck]

Graham, such bans never work. To make it effective you'd have to completely stop worldwide prroduction of weapons and parts. Fat chance of THAT happening.

I kind of like Chris Rock's idea to just make ammo prohibitively expensive. You'd really have to think about it before you shot a $2000 bullet.

[Dreadbelly]

**Said in best Mel Gibson grunt**

They make take our knives... But they'll ne'er take our cast iron skillets!

[jfellrath]

**Said in best Mel Gibson grunt**

They make take our knives... But they'll ne'er take our cast iron skillets!

If I'd been drinking anything, there'd be a whitewash of whatever liquid on my iMac.... thanks Dread!