UK Might Ban Katanas; Chavs Shop For Claymores

Originally Posted by LeHah

You also can't even show headbutting on TV or in a movie.

That's the second time I've heard someone say that and it's still not even slightly true. I've no idea where you got that idea from. Watch Lock Stock for example, there's about 3 headbutts in that. Also, nunchucks are banned in Germany, not here. The reason Li-Long has a three-point staff in Soul Blade rather than nunchucks is because the German government banned them, not ours. We actually have much more liberal censorship laws than you do in America.

The samurai sword ban is very silly though and yet another example of a knee-jerk reaction of our government to a problem that doesn't really exist in a sad attempt to grab headlines and look like they're actually doing something about the growing problem of knife crime in this country.

Where once we laughed at America for it's obsession with "Freedom" combined with restrictions on your actual civil liberties left, right and centre and heavy state monitoring of individuals, this country has turned into the worst kind of nanny state in the past couple of years. Anything that might be even slightly risky gets banned straight away now and there's constantly moves to eliminate the last few risk factors in everyday life that remain.

The stupid thing is, everyone basically ignores the government's attempts to force us to live safer and healthier lives. Britain recently overtook the US as cocaine use capital of the world, the smoking ban has killed the pub industry but cigarette sales are up since it's introduction, we're all driving faster than ever and kids are stabbing each other in the street over mobile phones.

We've been a nation of self-destructive thugs for thousands of years and no amount of government regulation is going to change that any time soon.

edit: Link to the bbfc classification of what makes an 18 rated film. You can't glamourise drug use or violence and sexual violence is generally frowned on, otherwise, show what the fuck you want basically.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

Britain is pretty damned retarded.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

I didn't think that British police were even supposed to be carrying guns on their person. How could this even be a problem?

If the police get reports of someone with a gun or if they pick something suspicious up on cctv they'll send an SO19 armed response unit. There's not many places in the country that can't be reached by an ARU in about fifteen minutes and they generally pack MP5s. They're remarkably well trained but if someone points something that looks like a gun at them, they'll shoot. Luckily, gun culture in this country is such that nobody ever really even considers pointing guns at the police. It has happened a couple of times though where the police have shot someone who was only holding a bb gun.

It's not a blanket ban on bb guns, it's a ban on imitation guns. If it's bright orange and obviously plastic, you're unlikely to get arrested for it. A lot of our police display a remarkable amount of common sense when it comes to applying the spirit of the law rather than the letter.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.