They know it won't work, but thats not the aim. It's just something for them to point at when challenged on inaction.
2 months ago | 31
Aye right, I was terribly worried about getting stabbed by the wrong kind of stabby object. Glad there's now some official guidance to sort that out.
2 months ago | 8
Well good to know they're doing something to protect all those British daiymo from shinobi
2 months ago | 6
As far as I can tell, they've already been banned 3 times already... In the 80s ninja panic, the offensive weapons act and the "curved blades" law... Regardless, as we all know it's it's pissing in the wind with respect to crime prevention.
2 months ago | 14
I still think the best comeback of all is Skallagrim's video on how you can turn almost any mundane object into a weapon (such as his kitchen-knife-on-stick example) was the best refutation of our government's ridiculous bans. It depends on culture, not the availability of weapons (look at Switzerland's gun crime to ownership stats), and if you try and take away every possible "weapon," everyday life ceases to function. Economic factors, mental health factors, and pervasive cultural norms determine rates of violent crime, so it can't be tackled by confiscating sharp objects or turning the UK into a soft play area like in Demolition Man. Besides, sticks and stones are always freely available...
2 months ago | 4
Gap in the market! Someone should design a UK legal Ninja sword. Make it as close to a katana as possible. So typical grip and tsuba, a blade with a hamon etc. make it just skirt the new description. Really hammer home the point that the ban is pointless
2 months ago | 5
Like American gun laws, it's not the gun killing people, people kill people. If knives are banned, they use sticks, rocks, ropes, tools, or fists.
2 months ago | 2
Odds of any of us being killed by a sword somewhere around 0%
2 months ago | 14
As a maker I can tell you that what our Governments & Globalist oligarchs want is for every blade to be serial #'d & licensed like a firearm here in the USA. Similar to the Russian & Chinese systems tbh. That said I would suggest preparing for one heck of an uphill battle on this one.
2 months ago | 0
I'm just baffled by the stupidity of the UK government. How many more decades it takes to understand that banning knives, screwdrivers, cutlery, sharp printer paper edges doesn't work at all ? Maybe instead think about training and arming your police force, punishing criminals with adequate sentences and allow citizens to defend themselves. How many times somebody could save their live if they could legally own and use something as simple as a mace/peper spray ? Stop making your law abiding citizens into victims.
2 months ago | 0
The Victorian government in Australia has just banned machetes after a spate of attacks. They have spent $13,000,000 putting 40 amnesty bins out the front of police stations so all the little gangsters can go along and drop off their machetes. It is the most ludicrous thing this admittedly very incompetent government has come up with yet. They won't collect a single one. Unless they manage to frighten gardeners like me into handing their handy banana choppers in. Needless to say they aren't getting mine. Stupidity.
2 months ago | 0
Gotta love how they want to make my 'ninja swords' illegal but my massive 2 handed Buster Sword is perfectly fine... I'm thinking their understanding of the issue is like their frontal lobes; egregiously underdeveloped.
2 months ago | 0
If I have this right, by regrinding the tip to a different angle, you're good? Defencable in court.... I've reached the point where I no longer actively follow these sword laws, beyond a joke.
2 months ago | 0
If you still believe that the UK government has your best interest in mind, you're a complete fool.
2 months ago | 0
Maybe it's time to talk about who is doing the stabbing
2 months ago | 9
The UK is a joke. We kicked them out of the US twice. An armed population is not only a necessary check on government, but an important part of national defense. There's a reason the United States mainland wasn't invaded during WWII.
2 months ago | 0
scholagladiatoria
Thanks for the shoutout from @BlackBeltBarrister regarding 'ninja swords'. I won't go into the new UK law changes for various personal reasons - Daniel has done an admirable job of that anyway.
2 months ago | [YT] | 133