People don't kill people, knives kill people.
 

Clarke By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 09 February 2006
A five-week nationwide knives amnesty is being launched in the summer in an attempt to drive down numbers of stabbings.

The war on inanimate objects continues.

Wow, won't be long before all that is left to assault people with is books.

I believe that they're already working on naughty words control.

I have hidden a cache of books in my home just in case.

Burning ones at that.

If they really got serious about this here (heaven forbid), and put U G out of business, wonder how he'd feel about Bush then? ;)

Yet one more use for the multi-volume and thick OED. A nice big Webster's dictionary can stop a line backer in his tracks when thrown properly. And how about those big coffee table books with all the glossy pictures inside? I vote that all public libraries be shut down at once!

Over here it's illegal to carry a pocket knife on the street (if the cops really want to bust you). It's also illegal to carry a concealable weapon (hence the knives thingy) which includes any handgun. It's also illegal to own a semi-automatic weapon - unless you're a farmer and can show just cause for having one.

I've never seen anyone using a book as a weapon. Mostly they just carry their knives anyway - concealed in their pants or jackets etc. I guess crime rates aren't as bad here as they are in the US and some other areas of the world though. We did have a gangland murder a couple of weeks ago though. That was pretty exciting. They don't happen here very much.

What??? You skipped 7th grade? :eyebrow:

hahaha...nope. In 7th grade I got in trouble from my teacher for bringing a copy of The Thorn Birds (a novel by Colleen McCullogh - one of our foremost authors) to school with the 'dirty bits' (love scenes) highlighted for the other kids to read.

People don't kill people, death kills people.