Hide Your Kabob Skewers, They’re Probably Next

Edmonton Mayor looks at banning sale of big knives

A spate of recent stabbings that killed two people and sent another to hospital have prompted Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel to probe the feasibility of banning the sale of large knives.

Mr. Mandel has asked city administration to work with local police on ways to curb the escalating violence, including the possibility of legislating a city-wide ban, a spokeswoman for the Mayor said yesterday.

Let me see now, even if they do proceed with this stupidity Spruce Grove is only about a 1/2 hour away from Edmonton heading west on the #16, banning the sale of “big knives” (whateverthefucktheymaybe) is not going to solve a single thing.

What we have here folks is another example of a pointless knee-jerk reaction in the pursuit of being seen to be ‘doing something‘.

[ h/t rphl_lxndr via Twitter ]

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11 Responses to “Hide Your Kabob Skewers, They’re Probably Next”

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  2. Throbbin on February 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    How much is the National Big Knife Association paying you?

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  7. JonZor on February 26th, 2009 at 4:35 am

    I think its time to start talking about a National Big Knife Registry.

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  9. balbulican on February 26th, 2009 at 6:42 am

    “another example of a pointless knee-jerk reaction …”

    A Big Knife would take care of that hamstring nicely.

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  11. nastyboy on February 28th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    If you ban big knives then only criminals will have big knives.

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