Swords!
Ok, first off, I appologise for spelling. I'm dyslexic and my laptop is being a git so I'm posting via my wii, so no spellcheck.

For the past 18 months, I've been collecting swords. It started innocently enough, buying cheap stainless steel replicas for £30-50 a pop. After a while, they started to grind on me, they were more toys then real swords. I decided to save for somthing special, a real weapon. A fast approaching ban on samurai swords set my decision. A year after my first blade, I got myself a 21st gift worthy of my new status of man, a samurai sword. At £130, its not a special peice, but its sharp as hell, very strong carbon steel and full tang (essental when cutting, thing about a kitchen knife and how its bolted into the handel). Since then I've bought a lovely Irish sword, which is basicly a knight sword too the uneducated. And now I sit with a falchion by my side. Its best described as a big machette, but thicker and with a pointed tip. I had to buy it as from April 1st, it's an illigal item and cannot be sold in the UK. It's classed as a Samurai sword, despite being a Europian sword from around 1400. (edit: existed in the11th to 16th century in slightly varying forms) At which point, Japan had no idea Europe existed, not until 1543 did any Japanise person lay eyes on a Europian. How a weapon developen without any knowlage of the samurai can be classed as a samurai sword is beyond me but Gordon brown and his anti fun squad have decided that it is, and that banning a seldom used weapon will be more effective then tackling the problems in society.
(Mong goose, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:32, 8 replies)

knives
I like to carry a knife just to carry our basic daily tasks (opening letters, eating fruit, getting stones out of horses hooves etc.) but thanks to a bunch of spotty retards who use them to kill each other, I'm technically a criminal.

I'm all for licensing knives. Illegal for those under 21, and liable to revocation if you're caught doing anything wrong.
(frankspencer, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:56, closed)

agreed
totaly agree, i could go for a licence system, swords are afterall dangerous in the wrong hand, but ive always said, anything can be a weapon, if you want some one dead, you can find a way, a rock can kill, much easier to use, and a good deal cheaper, not to mention easier to conceal.
(Mong goose, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 17:39, closed)

^same here
Although my CRKT K.I.S.S. has gone to the cutlers in the sky (one of the finest small folders made) it was technically illegal in that the blade locked. I now carry a Leatherman Micra which is quite frankly a bit puffy.

However Kudos for the Falchion, a proper Frenchman dividing weapon in it's time. My hand and a half broad or bastard sword will be staying exactly where it is, doing nobody any harm whatsoever. Unless the French invade, of course.

'Tis also ironic that half of the cheap crappy 'Samurai' swords used by the polyester-clad mouth breathers are of such poor quality that they'd have a job to cut a carrot in half even if they are actually live bladed. There only redeeming feature is that the Plod turn up booted and suited and will either shoot or Taser the bendy-sword waving prat.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 17:48, closed)

C'mon people, focus!
The man's posting from his Wii! Top class nerdity! Clickity-click.
( Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 17:50, closed)

Sorry to disagree but I am a women...
There should be a blanket ban on all knives IF it means the statistics go down on people getting killed by one. The reason that these young people carry them is because their easy to hide and cheap to buy. Yes, you can kill someone using a rock, but it's a bit messy and you can't carry a rock about all day. If it means there's a few harmless sad bastards out there who can't indulge in their samurai fantasies then so be it. It's hardly a human rights violation.

Myself, I can't see the fun in owning a weapon, historical or otherwise.

Oh! I'm going to get lambasted now, I can feel it.
( girlinthehole, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 19:16, closed)

A ban on all knives?
I assume you're not proposing we all eat only soup from here on in, so what's your classification going to be?
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:02, closed)

Sorry BBG
I hate to do this, but...

The most common edged weapon used to harm someone is a kitchen knife.

Second on the list is a 'craft' or 'utility' knife, i.e. Stanley.

Next comes the Cambridge University Suicides's favourite, the Swiss Army.

Then we've got the bought from the market cheap lock knife.

And finally, waay down the scale we have legitimately held fairly expensive proper knives.

It's a tool. It's the intent to do harm that is the issue, and the complete lack of understanding of the consequences of their actions that is the worrying thing with the scrapping genetic drizzle that pretends to be the yoof of today.

I've carried a knife of various peaceful sorts for the best part of 20 years and never had the desire to stab someone. On one occasion when I got involved with a Ned (and ended up with a rather fetching black eye) I could, if I felt like it, have stabbed the sawn-off little cunt repeatedly. However I didn't, as this was many years ago when Gentlemen used their fists. (And the little cunt used his mate to come up behind me and kick the shit out of me).

Forget banning the tools, as it would make a picnic a bastard. Try a mandatory 5 year sentence for a Ned or Senga carrying a blade.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:44, closed)

banning of knives, swords etc
im not a violent man, but i am fully confident i could stab someone with a screw driver, a nail or even a pencil. the fact is that kids today fell that killing is part of life. they fail to see the problem. why should we limit our own freedoms to protect ourselves from scum? i hate drinking from plastic pint glasses, im not going to glass some one, so why should i use the worst designed drinking receptical in history. we are automaticaly treated like criminals to limit the number of ways we can be assaulted. yet if some one wants to hurt me, they can just use the old fists. whats the future going to be like? wrap your hands in cotton wool before your alowed outdoors? only useless plastic cutlary? banning of swords will not lower the murder rate in the uk, it'l just give me anouther reason to move away from the united kingdom of health and safty.

p.s. I've had the falchion almost 9 hours now and not one person has died by it.
(Mong goose, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 22:54, closed)