I don't think many yobs are carrying zombi killer knives, machete seems to be popular at the moment, that and acid.Deeps wrote:Good post Tom, totally agree, licencing won't stop people doing bad things, horrible b'stards that think its acceptable to hurt animals will still do it anyway, there are plenty powerful catapults out there even if they can't get an air rifle. We can't just ban or prohibit everything, its awkward and unworkable, the banning of the 'zombie knives' doesn't seem to have made much of a dent in knife crime for example.
The problem really though is the criminals just ignore the laws anyway, hand guns are supposed to be pretty much banned for the public, yet armed crime has gone up a lot since the very strict laws were brought in.
Making something illegal and stopping it being used by criminals are two different things. Sadly!