If the police think that the thing can be used as a weapon, then they can charge you with carrying an offensive weapon, if it is in a publice place, so pointy sticks are already off the menu...
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If the police think that the thing can be used as a weapon, then they can charge you with carrying an offensive weapon, if it is in a publice place, so pointy sticks are already off the menu...
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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As I understand it, an 'offensive weapon' could be something designed to harm another person (like a sword) or something that the person using it intends to harm another person with. So a nobel peace prize could be called an offensive weapon!
Crazed Rabbit
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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Yes. I think they'd actually have to catch you in the act of bashing someone's head in with it to make that particular charge stick though.Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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Here, you can walk around with a sword or shotgun if you want to.
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Though I don't think this will necessarily solve the problem, I think the sentiment is right.
As for those who state 'banning guns and you get another weapon to replace it'. Look at the crime / death / injuries tables for our knife problem then do the same for your guns. If you still think out knife problem is the same as your gun problem you must be looking at the wrong tables.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
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It's because British people like being protected from their own stupidity. If it was practical to cover the entire country in padding, someone would have suggested it. Someone probably has anyway.
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**watches JAG nail pillows to the local courthouse after he finished burning down a church**
RIP Tosa
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A friend of mine saw a guy carrying a loaded crossbow down main street, across from village hall. God I love Canada.
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In the city of York in England it is legal to kill a scotsman as long as you do it after 6pm and with a crossbow.A friend of mine saw a guy carrying a loaded crossbow down main street, across from village hall. God I love Canada.
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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I thought it was a longbow, and not on Sundays. And in Chester you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
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