Scottish police hunt knife owners on internet
From the you-got-to-be-kidding-me-department. The BBC reports:
“We’re looking for anyone who is brandishing offensive weapons or blades,” Holly told Newsbeat.
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Even when pictures are taken in private, though, which isn’t technically breaking the law, he says the weapons are so dangerous his officers pay a visit to the people involved.
“We show the parents their pictures,” he explained, “recover the weapons and make sure they know that behaviour is unacceptable.
“We have large kitchen knives, axes, samurai swords, baseball bats, a huge number and different type of weapons – in simple terms weapons that can kill.”
I am speechless. If you take a photo of yourself holding a knife in Glasgow and post it on the internet the police will hunt you down and explain to you that knives are dangerous.
$3 Plastic knife: Guaranteed not to offend.
If William Wallace has been forced to cook food with a plastic kitchen knife he would never have had to heart to take on the British. I think it is safe to say that the Queen does not have to worry about the Scots seceding from the Kingdom.
I can’t believe such bullcrap! The citizens of the UK need to grow a pair and get rid of the asshat MPs that come up with these laws…
Honestly, I’d like to see them all receive any firearm that they’d like. The UK has got to have become the most backwards nation on the face of the planet now…
the ol’ Winston will be truly angry with that inept and coward England…
caposkaw, you are right. Churchill is one of my hero’s.
I thnik I was the only person I know who saw the bad side of this. In fairness to the police, they’re picking up knives from scratters who do think it’s clever to use them, and a lot of those little weegies (yeah I know, wrong city) would be stabbing people with them.
I’m still annoyed that a copper might turn up and ask me to turn in my perfectly legally held edged weapons.
“It’s dangerous!”
“Yeah I know officer, that’s why I bought it…”
I have yet to see what all the forums, especially knife, are saying about this one. It is only a matter of time until the pull the same thing with relation to firearms.
Jennersen, they already did that with handguns in the UK (complete ban) and everything else is restricted. It seems the scots don’t like guns either:
“In Scotland, since power to legislate on firearms was reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act 1998 that re-established a Scottish Parliament, this has led to tensions between Westminster and Holyrood with the Scottish Government wanting to enact still stricter laws “
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom
UK firearm laws: Pump action and semi-auto rifles are only allowed in .22. Pump and semi-auto shotguns can only hold two rounds in the magazine
http://www.gunrunner.cc/firearms_laws.htm
The British had some highly publicized series of stabbing incidents among young men/school children in 2008.
It’s a (sadly) normal over-reaction.
“$3 Plastic knife: Guaranteed not to offend.”
I’m surprised they aren’t attacking those first. After all, they are obviously designed to sneak through metal detectors.
You know, like Glocks.
Adam, LOL! good call!
The UK are currently the laughing stock of the Western World. I would said more but I leave it at that.
The UK are definitely headed towards the police state portrayed in Children of Men.
It’s when I read things like this that I sigh and say “God bless America.”
I meant in America.
Next time they are going to ban kitchen forks as well.After that pens,razor blades,drills etc. I wonder where it will stop.America is indeed fortunate in the sense that our founding fathers codified our bill of rights.
Well, there was a strong suggestion in the British Medical Journal, I believe written by a Scottish Doctor that large kitchen knives should be banned outright, because no amateur chef needed them too cook in the house… it got a bit mis-reported, and nothing seems to have come of it. So far.
Unfortunately, I think you have only just begun to see the tip of the iceberg (probably coming up on a ban list, also…someone might get stabbed by an iceberg point). Now that the government has gotten a taste for banning things it deems “unsafe” for its citizenry, it will continue to regulate anything and everything just because it can. Yesterday it was guns, today it’s knives, tomorrow it will be corkscrews, toenail clippers or embroidery scissors; all in the name of “safety” or “anti-crime” or some other reason. Even the reasons will become nebulous. Since they have the power, they don’t really need reasons, so long as the people just accept it. I appreciate that you have a high regard for our situation in America, but I fear that, now, our rights may be threatened. I would like to think that we have the stones not to let that happen. But I never thought it would happen in the Britain Isles, either. I’m pretty sure your forebears wouldn’t have allowed it.
Why am I not surprised. England (British Isles), Australia, and Canada have effectively disarmed it citizens, a citizenry who once had a rich heritage of firearms ownership. As we all know, in those countries, there is still enough violent crime to go around.
http://aroundotown.blogspot.com/2009/02/now-that-they-have-made-you-defenseless.html
You know what is ironic about this? The Scots, who have always been warriors are some of the finest SAS operators. Maybe the Brits are “cutting” of their own nose on this one.