The Increasingly Dreaded Fork
And knives are apparently next on the to-be-banned list making the lone swordmaker in Scotland very nervous about his future.
In other news, now that guns and knives have been banished, a gun control group in England (also known as Leftists obsessed with disarming the law-abiding public) has changed its name to “The Campaign to Prevent Hard Object Violence” and have pledged to ban the scourges of forks, baseball bats, rolling pins, crown molding, sauce pans, candlesticks, vases, chairs, tire irons, golf clubs, lamps, BBQ skewers, firewood pokers, firewood, chainsaws, sticks and stones, dog bones, big dog chewies, hammers, flashlights, and frozen legs of lamb.
The Great Unwashed Masses will, however, be allowed to handle Jello. But only plain, none of that imbedded fruit, especially fruit with seeds, which could be used to harm someone. There does, however, seem to be a growing resistance to the ban on “sharp cheddar cheese.” A meeting to debate the issue is scheduled next week.
The euro-weenies have supplied the US with a variety of annoyances–the appeasement of tyrants mentality, class-conciousness, secular humanism, etc. Some characteristics are worse than others and many are merely pet peeves (European table manners for example, completely ruin my appetite), but one nugget in particular is dangerous to civilization: That criminal behavior can be prevented by punishing potential and actual victims. No it cannot.
“Peace for our time” is a famous example of the near ruination of modern society because the European politicians wanted to avoid confrontation. Do crime rates rise or fall with concealed-carry rights? Is it intuitively obvious that one has the right to defend oneself against violence?
Firearms are very serious tools that have a deadly potential; in the wrong hands they are capable of extensive damage. Given correct instruction and used properly they also offer a means of defense against violence, and can be a part of a lifestyle that many of us enjoy quite a bit.
Beware of Luddites who want to teach the world to sing. In three-part har-mo-neeee…
Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
They can take my fork when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. And anybody who has ever eaten British food knows that will be shortly after dinner. My family visited England when I was a kid, and at our first meal, they served us a green porkchop, and my sister ate it and she was barfing continuously for the next 48 hours, and I had to share a room with her. But I digress…
Seriously, if memory serves (I haven’t looked this up to check the statistics, so I could be wrong), UK has been pretty effective at grabbing up the guns on their little island, and the population is lightly armed and can’t shoot each other very much. However, they do go around brawling and stabbing each other, a lot more than around here. It’s sort of a recreational thing. (Soccer hooligans, anybody?) So you can see how, in a Leftist world where we blame bad tools rather than bad people, we get to this point.
This is too funny. Another great thinker that I’m a big fan of talks often about how, ten years after the first same-sex marriage is legalized there will be a serious movement to marry one’s pets. This is the same thing with the British and their guns, and now knives.
What the left does not realize, or is unwilling to acknowledge, is that if a murderer is willing to violate the ban on murder, then the murderer is surely willing to violate the ban on guns, knives, and whatever else may possibly be banned.
Click this link to see a funny political cartoon about the brits and their gun laws:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b204/BlitzGaulAgain/Lord_Brit-itch_500w.jpg
That’s hilarious. In time you may prove to be as funny as Tim Blair.
You’re quickly climbing the list of my favorites.
Where will it end — a ban on sharply spoken words?
I guess the Brits forgot to outlaw bombs huh?