When swords are banned, only outlaws will use swords
Now that Australia's banned people from having guns, people are arming themselves with swords (seriously!). Guess what? They've decided to ban them, too.
One can imagine a future Australia where glass bottles, coin-filled socks, and cricket bats will all be banned. But it's all good. They'll never think to ban the single most effective weapon in a street fight: the dreaded poo stick.
(Thanks to the ubiquitous Eugene Volokh.)
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That article reads like
That article reads like something I would write as a parody of gun control nuts. Sheesh. Australia seems bent on reducing its citizens to a state of brutal hobbesian conflict. Guns are civilized compared to clubd and rocks.
So what... when the
So what... when the Highlanders clash atop Ayer's Rock, they're supposed to use pillowcases full of unopened cans of soda to decapitate each other?