Western elites are beyond parody these days, and the worst tend to be in Britain:
“Accordingly, it is very easy for any youth who wants to obtain a knife to take it from the kitchen drawer in his home or in the home of one of his friends.”
As a result – said the judge – the most common knife a youth will take out is eight to ten inches, long and pointed, from his mother’s cutlery tray.
He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
“Butchers and fishmongers do, but how often, if at all, does a domestic chef use the point of an eight-inch or ten-inch knife? Rarely, if at all.”
“Acknowledging that any blade could cause injury, the judge pointed out “slash wounds are rarely fatal.”
So, he said: “I would urge all those with any role in relation to knives – manufacturers, shops, the police, local authorities, the government – to consider preventing the sale of long pointed knives, except in rare, defined, circumstances, and replacing such knives with rounded ends.
“It might even be that the police could organise a programme whereby the owners of kitchen knives, which have been properly and lawfully bought for culinary purposes, could be taken somewhere to be modified, with the points being ground down into rounded ends,” he said.
Go here to read the rest. Presumably there will eventually be calls for the amputation of hands so that fists cannot be formed. How absurd! That will not happen until the Jihadists take over from these worthless cretins.
There’s something in the British habit of maintaining “stiff upper lip” that seems especially susceptible to “the emperor has no clothes” phenomenon.
Eye of the Tiber … The Onion…???. Nope.
Life is stranger than fiction, no doubt.
Knifes and sling shots too..oh..and swimming pools!
Rope can kill.
All water can cause harm.
Gasoline causes terrible burns..some fatal.
Oh nooo. I’m becoming a liberal.
Shot me please…I mean bludgeon me with a fish or something.
This was floated as a parody 5, 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, the reducto ad absurdum was insufficiently absurd– like the parody Bloomburg gun-grabber posters with titles like “rape lasts a moment, murder lasts a lifetime” that got a second life being shared by people who thought they were good arguments.
“slash wounds are rarely fatal”… except on the throat and jugular vein.
I saw on Facebook a post about how Bank of America (for involvement in the company’s bankruptcy) and a Remington shotgun killed 10 at Santa Fe HS. My first reaction: “Thank God I own a Winchester shotgun. It doesn’t kill school kids.” FYI – Remington’s don’t, either.
See Theodore Dalrymple on law enforcement and the courts in Britain. Its the policy of the judiciary to mollycoddle criminals. Elected officials will not intervene to put a stop to that. Cities have a 1984-like collection of public CCTV cameras everywhere but it’s to no avail because malefactors simply are not punished.
What happens in the U.S. is that policing is vested in municipal governments rather than county governments, cash-strapped (and crime-ridden) municipalities leave their forces understaffed, and loser politicians fellate public employee unions while at the same time shivving their members, so police officers when they’re not withdrawn from difficult neighborhoods park in doughnut shops because you avoid career-ending incidents that way. The net effect of all of this is inner city homicide rates 3-4x what they should be. In 1980, Baltimore and New York had a similar homicide rate (about 20 per 100,000). In the intervening years, New York’s has declined to 4 per 100,000 and Baltimore’s has increased to 50 per 100,000. Democratic politicians simply do no want to deal with these problems, so they babble about gun control (which is useful if you want to stick the blame for slum crime on rural gun aficionados).
Philip:
“Bludgeon me with a fish” calls to mind the Fish Slap Dance on the old Monty Python Show. Thanks for the laugh.
Tom Byrne.
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The MPFC sure had it’s run. “Now for something completely different!”
The cast had great fun in the construction of the skits. I have four brothers and cherished memories of laughing together at the antics presented.
And what about baseball bats and cricket bats? Of course, none of the reductio ad absurdums make any difference to totalitarians. A populace without any weapons can be so easily controlled. Just ask the Nazis how a few men with a few guns could, day in and day out, load thousands on boxcars. Guy McClung, Texas
Flight 93 terrorists had only box cutters which they held to the passengers throats. Now remove sharp knives, shovels, rakes, pitchforks, icicles, spoons knives and forks, sticks and stones.
I once heard a young person say: “I would go to prison to get a college education, but I cannot think of a crime I want to commit.”
And what about baseball bats and cricket bats? Of course, none of the reductio ad absurdums
Too slow, Guy, too slow; they already did sweeps of neighborhoods, confiscating “weapons,” weeks ago. A pensioner who was working in the front yard with a small sledge went in to get a drink, and got video of them taking his hammer as a weapon.
from site Catholic Lane, April, 2016
It Takes Families To Raise A Village
Men with guns surround the powerists’ vehicles.
Mothers, loving, unseen behind bulletproof glass,
Their children laughing above run-flat tires,
Dark vehicles in caravan, racing through red lights,
Unimpeded.
Happy on the way to school.
The mothers talking, motherly,
About goodness, and love, and
Daddy and cousins.
The mothers safe, the children safe,
Daddy safe.
Men with guns are there, school is safe.
The Powerists, komodo chameleons,
Each speaks in a dialect of the same
Universal powerist tongue:
Communist, Socialist, Marxist,
Statist, Fascist, Progressivist,
Capitalist, Jihadist, Democratist.
The no-power nonpersons,
Unseen, unheard, unfamilied,
Gun-less,
Stand, still, alone, waiting,
As the vehicles pass safely by.
Copyright © Guy McClung 2016