Yeah, I shouldn’t really have used ‘never’ should I? I meant that the banning of handguns in 1997 did not affect the general populace they were not generally owned to the same extent as in the US.
Agreed, AND guns don’t talk back to you…
unless you happen to be Inspector Sledge Hammer, that is 
[MacTech turns to his .357 and says]this Calm Kiwi has some good ideas, don’t you think
[co-workers] who are you talking to?
[MT] what, uhh…nobody, nevermind, i don’t know where my head is at…
I’d rather take a trip to the emergency room for a knife wound than for a gun shot wound.
I would rather fo for A gun shot wound than for having an entire extended clip from an AK-47 put into me.
Point taken. However, criminals seem to be possessed of the same survival instincts that plague us all. As products of evolution, they tend to adapt. If by some miracle of divine intervention, guns could be eliminated from even private manufacture and sales through underground channels, then it is possible that criminals will throw up their hands and say, “Well, I guess it’s time we got jobs flipping burgers.” But it is also possible that they might stumble upon new tactics for committing their crimes, such as attacking in gangs of three and four, for example, such that whatever direction in which you decide to run, you will be gutted.
Rolling pins. And cast iron skillets.
Remember: ‘Run from a knife, rush a gun.’
For real? I thought that, unless you’re trained to bring down someone with a gun, you should run, but not in a straight line. You still might get shot, but not fatally.
Run from, rush toward, it’s probably safer to just let the jerk with the gun or knife have the money, if that’s what he’s after.
People talking about banning knives, clubs, etc. have totally lost sight of the fact that humans have been killing each other with blunt instruments and edged weapons a heckuva lot longer than we’ve been shooting each other.
I have to completely disagree on this one. How many toddlers are killed in their beds because of an errant knife in a drive-by kniving went through their apartment wall? How many kids are beaten to death with clubs by mistake because they were believed to be somebody else from a distance?
To the intended victim here might not be too much difference(although I would guess the chance of being merely injured when attacked with a sharp or blunt weapon is greater than being attacked by a gun). To the innocent bystanders there’s an enormous difference between guns and any other weapon.
So we have to ban them for the children, huh?
That toddler you’re talking about is 100 times more likely to drown in a backyard swimming pool than be killed accidentally or intentionally by a handgun. Yet this is a risk we seem to tolerate as a free society.
Far better, I think, to ban backyard swimming pools. This would save far more children, and infringe on nobody’s constitutional rights.
How about Bombs? :rolleyes:
Tobacco kills 10 times as many dudes a year than guns do.
Plus, how many of the guns used in the toddler-killing drive-bys are legally registered?
If banning worked, why not simply ban crime? Oh, right…
Now that was a great one. Simple and elegant, with just a dash of sarcasm. Mind if I borrow it occasionally?
What about pointed sticks or fresh fruit?
I have a Japanese style chef’s knife (santuko?), but I don’t use it much. It’s not pointy, so it’s really awkward for taking apart a green bell pepper. I can think of half a dozen other food tasks that just can’t be done without a pointy knife. The doctors are wrong.
Was that final question aimed at yourself? It should have been.
Your point, in summary, would appear to be that there is no point in making crimes more difficult to carry out. It’s not a very good point, for pretty obvious reasons.
What are these obvious reasons?
Things that are more difficult to do don’t tend to happen as much.