How dare you have tools?!

They would have fun with me.
Let's see:
- machetes for debranching trees
- axes for splitting wood
- hammers for framing
- chisels for woodworking
- scythe for cutting weeds
- chainsaws
- picks for digging clay, etc
- field hockey stick for knocking ice off the bottom of my car
- utility knives
- metal pipes for projects
and the list goes on.

Remember, Britain is the country whose antics inspired our Declaration Of Independence over 200 years ago.

Guess those Brit bobby buffoons would cut their own throats and that of their own families to deprive any home invaders of the satisfaction.

Brits used to be eccentric, and that was fun. Now they are goofy. They implemented outcome-based ed. years ago, created a "brain drain", in their words.Then they put a Muslim in charge of BBC religious programming, also dumped Top Gear, bad chaoices. Now they are anti-knife. That just won't work here, not giving up my Ben Nighthorse Campbell knife, nor my inlaid ones, nor my Indian ones in sheaths. Husband always has a pocket knife, so do I. What next, ban hoof picks or pea shooters!

Even banning everything and completing a mandatory cutting off of everyone’s finger and toenails, won’t stop the violence.
If they actually figure it out before it’s too late, they’ll survive.

Because no one NEEDS a semi-automatic knife!

Sorry, I was channeling my "inner libtard", for a moment.

I recently purchased a 35 lb iron crow bar with a sharp end for use in tearing up my deck. I truly am nervous about a knock at the door from the local federales.

Your image of the "Muslim" with the sword is of course a Sikh. Sikh men are required by their religion to carry a real knife or sword. It is not merely symbolic. The London ban on knives is an offense against Sikhs.

If they make an exception for Sikhs, then dressing as a Sikh will become the new fashion of the jihadist.

What this was linked to was an actual story where a homeowner stabbed an intruder with a screwdriver. The criminal first used it as a weapon and the homeowner reversed the use. Guess who ended up getting charged and taken to jail? The homeowner. Just insane.

When my eyes reached "stereotypical image," me dino actually thought I was about to read of a Muslim holding a knife to a throat prior to a decapitation.
Guess to some that would make me an Islamophobic racist.

There ya go!

I would ban troublemakers that would provoke libs into calling me a racist.
At least I'd be saving lives.

Just a few years ago, Australia began registering swords. Seems there was a rash of sword attacks, following their gun confiscation.

And it's funny that London's mayor (a Muslim) would find carrying knives inappropriate, considering the stereotypical image of a robed Arab with a scimitar on his hip...

I'm right up there with you in anti-PC, Allosaur.

Edible plates! Just grab the whole thing and stuff it in your mouth. When going tribal, may as well do it right.

Hmm paper plates are environmentally unfriendly tho

Rather than banning inanimate objects, which in and of themselves do nothing without the impetus of people, if London is truly sincere, they should ban people!

"As if a kid can't get so mad at another kid that he'd grab oine of those."
Yes. Exactly. One way or the other, kids must learn not to throw rocks, bullets, knives, or fists at one another. There's no way make even violent impulses disappear by just banning everything.

A lesson that constantly needs to be relearned. A leftist would have outlawed chop sticks.

But someone out there would your son a bucket of river rocks to throw at shooters.
As if a kid can't get so mad at another kid that he'd grab oine of those.

Like the vast majority of people.

During my 21 years as a corrections officer, me dino confiscated such weapons and have seen such wicked devices on display, beginning at the state corrections academy in Selma, Alabama.

My 9-y/o son and I carry pocket knives sometimes. My son's is a Craftsman utility knife. Mine's a Gerber. They taught him to use it responsibly in cub scouts. I wonder if there would be an exemption for utility knives in London. I know it's considered a major violation if my son carried it to school.

Imagine everything being finger food in a fancy restaurant. That would be so frustrating for a connoisseur that one would want to snatch up a plate and bust it over--oops!--here comes the paper plates and plastic cups for the fine wine.
Bon appetit!

I'm reminded of the story of the Chinese emperor who made civilian ownership of swords, spears, and bows and arrows illegal to try to reduce crime. He was disappointed when his mandarins told him the criminals were using kitchen implements and garden tools, so he made it a law that only wooden implements could be used in cooking, and that all garden tools had to be registered. Satisfied he had things under control, he was astonished when his mandarins reported the criminals were using chopsticks to kill and rob people. At that point he realized that it was evil people that were the problem, not the implements they used to commit crimes, and he abolished all of his weapon restrictions.