Our Scottish friends are losing thier knives

namaarie said:
A 3-minute response time is good for police. It's not good enough if somebody comes through the front door.
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Well sure. The police are a deterrent to crime, that's all. Think about it: they will catch someone (supposedly) who commits a crime and then the system punishes the criminal. All of this deters a criminal.

But when someone is committing a crime, the police aren't going to be there. If the crime is against you, then you need to defend yourself.

Banning guns of course leads to banning knives because both are equally logical to the banners. Just as having a knife is logical if you need to defend yourself and cannot have a gun.

Government wants a monopoly on the use of force. It is not an absolute monopoly in the U.S. because of historic forces but if we are not constantly vigilant they will ban guns and knives in the U.S. with exactly the same arguments, and you know what? The majority will support the ban here too.
 
Don't think for a second that we are far from this kind of thing. Our legislators tend to look to Europe as their model. Funny how we were the first to have a democracy and we try to model it after the ones that came later. Somehow many see Europe as "ahead" of the US instead of just different. My mother is European and I have nothing against them or how the choose to live, but I don't think what they do there is automatically what we should do here, or vice versa. We are different and that is fine. But many think otherwise.
 
Start fighting before they try to plant microchips in us. That will be the next logical step for the politicians. Little GPS microchips under your shoulderblades.

First they will go onto undesireable portions of society, like rapists, murderers, and knife makers. That will be under the idea of protecting us by tracking criminals without the taxpayer expenses like prison, and so society will embrase it. Then they will go onto all citizens, under the idea of having all of your important medical info, drivers license, whatever, on you at all times. With the added bonus of being able track kidnapped children, and lost hikers. Next, total enslavement... :)
 
I saw it coming though. I was there in '96 and the City of Glasgow had a huge publicity campaign letting everybody know they were subject to random stops and patdowns for weapons. Considering I was backpacking at the time and carried a folding knife in my front pocket I was very aware of law enforcement whenever I was out.
 
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