[TheEgg]

There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous people. Laws, to be rational and effective, must address this issue -- a dangerous person, no matter how many laws are passed to ban "things" is still dangerous, if with nothing more than teeth, hands, and feet. Laws that instead attempt to remove simple objects are doomed to ultimate failure, if indeed the purpose of those laws are to deal with dangerous people and not to 're-engineer' society into someones ideal of socialist utopia. A telling point here is the reaction of the gun-banners in England, who after they were successful in banning handguns were asked why the crime rate did not go down, answered in effect that "they never expected crime to go down, and that was not the purpose of the ban." (paraphrased)

The politicians and fellow travelers in UK, Australia, and here in the US that refuse to see the simple truth, are either fools, or are pushing these laws for a far different agenda.