Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If you want to see where American Liberals will be in a few years, look at British Liberals.
Guns already are banned but violence continues so now mandatory six months jail for second conviction for carrying a knife. All the usual arguments about whether it’s harsh enough, prison overcrowding, effect on gang violence, etc.
No concept that giving ordinary citizens the power to fight back in self-defense might be a long-term better strategy for social order.
Joe Doakes
Not only that, but self-defense itself is becoming illegal.
But let’s be fair; the US was headed the same direction 30-40 years ago. The good guys – that’d be you and me – fought back and pushed the needle back toward freedom.
We need to do it again, and in many, many more areas.
And the British authorities take their enforcement to the same absurd bitter-ends of tortured logic as our schools who expel kids for inadvertently bringing a box cutter to school. See this story about a guy who kept a Swiss Army knife in his glove box. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266170/Disabled-caravanner-prosecuted-keeping-penknife-car-use-picnics.html
This kind of law could ruin the housewares business if transporting “dangerous” knives from Macy’s to your home could be a criminal matter. Good luck trying to get your hunting knife to deer camp!