Over a year ago I heard about the concern some of the English had
over 'sharp' things and the injury and misuse of knives. I wonder if
I'll live long enough to see a movement to forbid 'sticks and
stones'. The only thing left to hurt you would then be 'words'.

I'm sure glad I'm a citizen and not a subject.

--- In ArkansasShooters@yahoogroups.com, "montemanm1"
<montemanm1@...> wrote:
>
> From
>
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1319327520071213?
> feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true
>
>
> I guess the cheap, smaller versions are called "Samurai Night
> Specials?"
>
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - The government said Wednesday it would ban the
> sale of samurai swords because the weapons had been used in a
number
> of serious, high-profile attacks.
>
> The Home Office said the swords would be added to the Offensive
> Weapons Order from April next year, meaning they could not be
> imported, sold or hired.
>
> However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by
> martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban.
>
> "In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons," Home
> Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.
>
> "We recognize it is the cheap, easily available samurai swords
which
> are being used in crime and not the genuine more expensive samurai
> swords which are of interest to collectors and martial arts
> enthusiasts."
>
> The Association of Chief Police Officers said the swords were not a
> common weapon but they had been used in a number of significant
> incidents.
>
> In 2000, Robert Ashman murdered a Liberal Democrat councilor at the
> offices of Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones, who was also seriously hurt
in
> the attack.
>
> A year earlier, Eden Strang seriously wounded 11 people when he
went
> on the rampage with a samurai sword at a Roman Catholic Church near
> his home in Thornton Heath, south London.
>
> (Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Tim Castle)
>