Right, this'll work, just like all the other ones do

England's government has followed through on the threat it issued last March, and has banned samurai swords from being sold or possessed in that country, beginning in April of next year.

Of course, this being England, there's a hole big enough for a sumo wrestler to walk through, one which effectively negates whatever they're trying to accomplish in the first place:

"However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban."

All a criminal will have to do to get "sworded up" now is rob enough people to pay for the real thing, just like they already do for guns and knives, which are also banned there but used countless times daily to commit crimes anyway.

All that these neat bans do is deprive law-abiding English citizens of their inherent right to defend themselves from those same criminals, who don't care one whit what's banned or not, as they aren't going to follow the law in any event.

"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."

Another church that would have benefited from a law-abiding, handgun-carrying parishioner. Funny how that fact keeps coming up over and over, eh, David Lillehaug?

I still predict that rocks and sticks are going on England's banned list next. It's just a matter of time (and stupidity).