if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Chainsaw, Machete, and Axe
by Lee
Australia has implemented draconian gun bans, the idea being that doing so will protect the public from these tools of death. So, when tools of death aren’t available, criminals will turn to other tools to achieve the same result.
A HEAVILY pregnant teenager accused of involvement in an incident in which a family was held captive and threatened with a chainsaw, machete and axe has been released on bail by a Sydney judge.
Shannon Louise Powell, 19, who is charged with three counts of detaining a person for advantage, must adhere to strict conditions while on bail.
She is accused of helping her boyfriend, Glynn Christopher Kaderavek, hold three members of his family captive at Muswellbrook, in the NSW Hunter Valley, on September 28-29 last year.Prosecutors allege his relatives were threatened with a chainsaw, a machete and an axe during the ordeal, in which Kaderavek’s grandfather suffered a broken arm.
Luckily this one turned out okay. Rather than being a pregnant girl, imagine if this had been some drug-crazed maniac. The ban on guns guaranteed one thing: that the homeowner here had no defense against a pregnant girl wielding a chainsaw, machete, and axe. I expect Australian legislation to ban chainsaws, machetes, and axes in about five minutes.
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It’s time to outlaw pregancy. You see what this shit leads to?
Sounds like a very special episode of “Blossom”.
Make her hot instead of pregnant, and you have the basic plot outline for a possible Saw III.
Sounds like a very special episode of “Blossom”.
Woah!
Coming soon, sticks and stones banned.
Who knows, if they had a gun we might have a dead granddad instead of one with a broken arm. Guns make it far easier to kill someone than hacking them to death with a chainsaw.
These are exactly the type of situations that not having any access to guns helps. A competent murdered can kill someone with/without a gun and there is crap all you can do about it. Its when its people like this who probably don’t mean to kill someone that removing guns from the picture likely results in less people dead at the end of it.
If guns were allowed, grandad or someone else in the family would have been just as likely to have one. It would take a special kind of determination to pull that stunt knowing someone in the house might be able to shoot at them.
Unless they took them by surprise, then it wouldn’t matter what was legal to possess.
You laugh about banning common gardening implements, but I can point out that the great utopia-that-never-was, the USSR, even banned all martial arts. Learning effective hand to hand combat was out of the question. This is the goal of all leftist governments: a defenseless and pliable population.
“When they took my neighbor’s Tai Chi books, I didn’t speak up because I was a Ken-po guy...”
I JUST blogged about this subject yesterday. A guy in Massachusetts held up a liqour store with an AIDS needle.
Basically the point was the same. People don’t bother to address the larger issue of crime and are more interested in the implement itself… and that’s dangerous.
Totally off the subject, but Sanda Day O’Conner is consistently described as the swing vote in regard to abortion. Taking Scalia, Thomas, Roberts as a given to overturn Roe ( and who can really say about mister “settled law” Roberts.) if they had a chance, then who is the 4th that makes the Alito-O’Conner vote the swing.
sounds like children of the corn part 2
Off topic, but I made the mistake of putting one of our UK channels (4) on just now and they had Big Brother on. I think you have this in the US as well now, although not sure. Anyway, its full of d-list (wannabe c-list) celebrities including a few Americans. There was a discussion just now about how some of them couldn’t win because they where black/asian/American etc. This is compared to a cross dressing woman/man (not sure), a welsh rapper (don’t ask) Galloway and someone famous for having sex with the England football manager.
One of them honestly said that they would never let a black/asian person win it. Unfucking believable.
Galloway
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What a tool. Is this guy still in office?
Who knows, if they had a gun we might have a dead granddad instead of one with a broken arm. Guns make it far easier to kill someone than hacking them to death with a chainsaw.
If the chainsaw was functional, I don’t see any way that someone would end up with only a broken arm.
What a tool. Is this guy still in office?
Yup, for another 3 years or so unless he dies. The odds of him being re-elected are very slim. You don’t have nearly as much incumbancy advantage in the UK.
Guns make it far easier to kill someone than hacking them to death with a chainsaw.
Considering that gunshot wounds are usually nonfatal, I would wager this claim is based primarily on movies and television. A motor-driven sawblade tearing into your flesh (which contains vital blood vessels and nerves) is, I expect, far more likely to do fatal damage than is a half-inch puncture wound delivered by an inept assailant.
Australia might not have guns, knives, straws longer than four inches, long-corded optical mice, or pointed shoes (that can be used as weapons), but at least they don’t have the fucking 405 freeway.
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I’d a stabbed her with a fork…