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Originally Posted by JayMcGee

Why would you want to carry a gun in London? There is no right to bear arms here, and most olf us Brits would feel might insulted at the mere suggestion that you felt you had to be armed, like you were comparing us with Bagdhad or NewYork or LA or somewhere else equally violent.

The same reason I bear them anywhere else. I know your law has long ago abrogated that right for you. And I think that's a shame.

Sorry you may feel insulted, but I can't be responsible for your misconception that a *place* is violent. Personally, I don't think places are violent, and I don't think weapons are violent.

People, however, are sometimes violent. And when you run into such, it can ruin your whole day. And it only takes one...not a whole place-full. Where it happens is irrelevant...unless it happens to be a victim disarmament zone. Like all of the UK. Including the quiet little tourist town I visited in Wales, where a scrap metal dealer is currently up on charges of bludgeoning to death three generations of a family.

With a bar of scrap metal, naturally... :-)

I dunno, places CAN be violent... I live at the foot of a dormant volcano, and there's a typhoon coming right for me....

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Maybe because of all the knifings going on over there. ;)

Oh, they've got a law for that too.

That's why only the bad guys have knives, hence the stabbings.

Locking blades are illegal? Good thing they have national health care.

After 50 odd years, I'd be lost without my pocket knife. :(

That's not enough though...

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Age ban 'should go beyond knives'

A forthcoming ban on under 18s buying knives should be extended to other deadly weapons, the chairman of the Policing Board has said.

It follows a campaign by the family of a 24-year-old Belfast man, beaten to death with a medieval-type spiked ball and chain in west Belfast in 2002.

Sir Desmond Rea said access to these weapons should also be restricted.

"We would be asking does that offer the opportunity to expand the remit of the law to cover these weapons," he said.

Yes, that's right...there has apparently been a rash of morningstar assaults. Or so one would believe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/n...nd/5109098.stm

Good thing he's over 16...

Wow, she's lovely. And looks just like you, maggie.

Congrats, Maggie. Great pic!

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Originally Posted by wolf

Wow, she's lovely. And looks just like you, maggie.

Yeah, she's a gem. Her little sister is really something too...

Part of the wedding party: left to right: maid of honor, best man, bride, groom, groom's mother

Slightly better pic of same group...adds groom's father (in kilt and sporran)

MaggieL , my husband wore full French officer regalia to our wedding in Wales . This included a sword . The vicar asked my husband to leave the sword outside the church , as a symbolic gesture . My husband naturally complied with good grace .

Similarly , I shall leave all verbal weapons aside in order to wish your daughter and her husband a happy life together , forever and ever . Llongyfarchiadau fel dan ni'n dweud yn Nghymru !

The Best Man has the Best Hat.

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Originally Posted by Buddug

One might ask "symbolic of what?", althought I can well imagine that an armed Frenchman is not well-taken in a Welsh church. :-)

Disarming Sean would not have been possible in this case, as jumping over the sword together was part of the ceremony. (Fortunately it did not take place in a church, either.) Although I do recall my father officiating at a wedding in his (Anglican communion) church in which sword-jumping was a part, although it was not worn as a sidearm.

In both cases the swords were inscribed "Dum vivimus, vivamus!"; Heinlein fans will recognize. Sad that people confuse being armed in the defense of oneself or the weak with agressive intent--as if owning matches or installing a fire alarm was evidence of intent to commit arson.

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Originally Posted by Ibram

The Best Man has the Best Hat.

Yes, Gonz was superbly turned-out.