The powers that be in England have decided to ban the importation and sale of "imitation" samurai swords, after it has come to light that a few criminals have used them to rob and assault people.
A small number of high-profile crimes seem to have driven this action, even though there's already plenty of laws on the books to deter using swords as criminal weapons:
"Carrying a samurai sword in a public place already attracts a maximum jail sentence of four years."
Some muckety-muck named Coaker also had the following to say on the subject:
""It is already illegal to have a samurai sword in a public place but I want to restrict the number of dangerous weapons in circulation to enhance community safety.""
Translation: The laws that we have don't work, so let's have more "feel-good" policies that restrict law-abiding citizens' rights, but do absolutely nothing about crime prevention. How about enforcing the laws that you already have, Minister Coaker? All you are accomplishing by doing this is ensuring enough profit margin to entice other criminals to risk the black-market importation of these swords. Prohibition doesn't work, and never will.
After complaints from some groups such as "collectors" (whatever that means) and martial-arts groups (the rich and powerful that have time and money for such things), "genuine" (expensive) swords from Japanese makers will still be available for sale.
"Collectors and martial arts enthusiasts owning or using genuine samurai swords would be exepmt [sic] from the ban."
For now.
Until the government comes for their swords next, as they inevitably will.
I haven't even gone into how some law-abiding citizens have been forced use such weapons for home and personal defense against these same thugs after their firearms had been previously stolen from them by their government.
This, Mr. Zumbo, is why you no longer have a career, as we all fight for our rights as one, or we lose our rights one by one.
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