Re: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 8/29/07, Alex Shipp (elist) <elist-alex () starlabs net> wrote:

> > Who qualifies for sword ownership?
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> > > > knife crime?
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> Personally, I doubt that knives will ever be completely banned, even
> in a nanny state like our own.

I doubt it as well, but regulated to hell is always a possibility. I
can't find anything on an actual ban by law on either swords or knives
- just a lot of news in regards to the "public outcry" for the need of
such things.

So long as you're not a victim of a sword/knife attack the argument
over whether or not they should be banned is pretty funny. You ban
guns (all but remove the possibility to own them if you're anything
less than a wealthy, connected "citizen") and then move on to the next
thing - as if the first ban had some great, but unmeasurable, effect
and so the next one will too. In the end, like I said, you're faced
with the fact that humans can be incredibly vicious and cruel and
violent and you must now ban hands and feet. The alternative is much
harder to accomplish: admit that you were wrong and that so long as
there are going to be violent humans walking the earth you might as
well have access to the best tools available for defending yourself
against those violent persons. Its not a chicken and egg question -
violence came LONG before the gun, sword or even knife. The argument
that the knife, sword and gun came along as a result of the
preexisting violence is not one I'll make - but it has legs.
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