Posted: 11/14/2009 9:39:46 AM EDT
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Some idiot is arguing with me about gun control and mentioned how "knives and swords don't let you kill a dozen people". I've spent the last fucking HOUR trying to find the article where a guy in Japan stabbed a dozen people with a sword, or similar incidents in the US and UK with knife attacks. The ONLY fucking result I get is the same fucking article about the college student killing a burglar with a sword.
Little help here? |
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This? Seven die in Tokyo knife attack rampage
ETA Seems the hotlink doesn't like the dashes in the url. Google "japan stab attack" and it's the second result. |
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1270381620071212
Samurai swords to be banned Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:30am GMT LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on 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 recognise 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 councillor 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. |