@JackBlack: And how does banning knives stop them from existing and being used?

Why not ban stealing phones, since bans stop things from happening?

@Anonymous: FYI: 'Slippery slope' is a fallacy, not a reason. But the rest of what you said still rings true.

@Anonymous: Why not ban phones, it will certainly stop them being stolen.

@Anonymous: It would also stop websites being turned into horrendous pieces of crap that don't work properly on a home computer. IT MUST BE DONE! BAN THE PHONES! (srsly)

@JackBlack: You do know that people can be killed with blunt household objects and bare hands, as well, correct?

@Anonymous: You are completely missing the point. The point is that if the police are able to stop and search less knives will be on the street. In fact since the police gained stop and search powers knife crime has been steadily decreasing.

@Anonymous: I'd say banning swords would be a slippery slope to banning knives but clearly it's long since slid past that. If you toss a frog in hot water he'll jump out. If you put him in cold and slowly raise it he'll be boiled before he notices.

England has been boiled by a nanny state that seizes klingon weapons and children's pocketknives.

@Anonymous: OMG BAN HANDS!

@Anonymous: How is that concept of a slippery slope a fallacy? It's pretty much how many dictatorships happened. One tiny step at a time.

@JackBlack: has fork crime gone up?

@Anonymous: Unlike US airports.

@Anonymous: and once again a serious discussion has been ruined by an idiot

@Anonymous: underage forking is a crime

@Anonymous: Ban All Things!!!

@Anonymous: At least in the US they botch about it. In England they defend it. Stockholme syndrome eh?

@Anonymous: Except banning.

@JackBlack: >implying serious discussion

@Anonymous: Of course!

@Anonymous: England's airports are a lot less nuts than US, though. Can't complain about the results.

@JackBlack: Implying anyone who suggests banning knives is serious.

In the US we had over one hundred people killed with a fertilizer bomb once. We didn't ban fertilizer.

@Anonymous: Apparently, they have also banned frivolity.

@Anonymous: We in the U.S. would be doomed if they banned manure!!!

@Anonymous: Nah mate, your politicians seem to generate enough of it to supply the entire country for a week every time they open their mouths. (So do ours, of course.)

Thank goodness if you get caught with a knife you go to ENGLISH jail and not real jail.

@Anonymous: yeah but in the US I like to think ours are worse.

@tingle007: What's English jail like? :o

@Anonymous: (Anon thinks I'm Australian!)
KIWI... RAGE... RISING

(Wait, Anon hates Australians too!)
KIWI... RAGE... SUBSIDING

@Anonymous: Gaol

@Anonymous: Let's just say it's somewhere between Norwegian jail, and Slavic freedom.

@Anonymous: No I am Australian, im surprised that you are kiwi, didnt know you guys got around this much

@Anonymous: Sounds like jail except everyone WANTS to drop the soap.

@JackBlack: in other words people carrying around knives that can't be used for anything other than as weapons

@JackBlack: I got one of those when I was 9 from my step dad. Would use it to cut twine and fruit.

@Anonymous: and whittle while you work?

@Anonymous: is you being racialist?

@Anonymous: yeah maybe at home or when camping in the woods, not walking around town carrying it as a weapon

@Anonymous: No the point is how young they all are, I believe the oldest person on there is 17. In addition over the last few years since stop and search laws came into effect how many kids have you heard were killed in the UK, because I can't think of any really, whereas I remember in 2004/2005 it was almost like there was one every few weeks

@tingle007: simple, use scissors