A ten inch Kumar Karda. Pix. What do you think about it?

Netscape's Headline News by Reuters is reporting a naked man bursting into a church swinging a sword, with several people hurt.
 
Another silly law.

Here in Ontario lawn darts are illegal. I think it is careless use rather than weapons applications that brought this ban on.

Does a thrown knife constitute a lawn dart if it hits grass?

Will
 
Lawn Darts got outlawed, at least for interstate commerce, in the USA too. Somebody threw one over a fence and into the top of a child's skull. He died. His parents lobbied and lobbied hard for a ban on the things.

It's still OK to trim your grass with a kukri, as far as I know. Please, nobody throw your Ang Kola over a fence!



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Uncle Bill, you shouldn't be giving our federal bureaucrats ideas like that. Before you know it, they're liable to be wanting to register slingshots and limit the number, and weight, of rocks we can have. You know how Big Brother wants to control every aspect of our lives.
 
FWIW, sling shots are illegal in NYC. In light of the recent attack with a paving stone, Lord Giuliani's next move could very well be to have work-fare recepients go around collecting all such potential weapons.

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I may be goin' to hell in a bucket, Babe, but at least I'm enjoyin' the ride.


 
Good grief, where's it gonna stop? Our elected officials are so determined to protect us from ourselves that, before long, we're gonna have to have permits to own kitchen utensils.
 
If lawn darts are outlawed, only outlaws will have lawn darts!

Sure you can have my lawn darts, when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands...

Join the NLDA today!

-Dave
 
I thought you folks might find this interesting. It is from an Associated Press article yesterday:

"A naked sword-wielding man burst into a south London church during Mass Sunday, slashing and stabbing members of the congregation. Ten people were injured, three seriously."

"Two other men armed with sticks followed the man into the church, lashing out at some of the 400-member congregation."

One eye-witness was quoted as saying, "There were at least three of them. One was naked and brandishing a machete or sword and the others were slashing out at the congregation with sticks while they ran down the aisle."

Can't you just imagine the legislation that this might trigger!




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It now appears the two men with sticks were actually members of the congregation, fighting back against the sword guy. It is fortunate that this sword guy wasn't practiced or lucky - this could have been much, much worse.

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Namaste,
Jeff Paulsen

"Oh, a magic khukuri. Why didn't you say so?"
 
Some people just give a bad name
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-Humpty

"Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty dumpty had a great fall.
Maybe Humpty should of had a knife."

 
Even weirder is that Sunday at least 3 british reports mentioned one of the men who took down the sword wielder was an off duty Pc, and worked as an armed response officer at that. The brits must not have wanted people stopping to think that if the guy had been on duty and thus armed he could have ended it far more quickly, because Monday and Today none of the british media is mentioning him as being other than a "uniformed" Pc.

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"All who follow the leading of God's Spirit are God's own sons." Romans 8:14


 
A major study of gun ownership and crime was recently done by John R. Lott, Jr., who teaches criminal deterrence law and economics at the University of Chicago. His study, publishsed in a book titled, "More Guns, Less Crime," concludes, among other things, that "right to carry laws and legally concealed handguns currently represent the most cost-effectaive methods available for reducing violent crime." Lott's work has been endorsed by a number of prestigeous research organizations, including Harvard Law School's Program on Empirical Legal Studies. If anyone would like more information about the book, please email.
 
As far as California law, would carrying a khuk in a daypack on a hike be illegal? Not a hike in the city but in the mountains or desert.
 
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