"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Criminal-San

by Lee

In a world where there is no private ownership of firearms, criminals will turn to whatever is available.

Four McDonald’s employees escaped a terrifying ordeal unscathed yesterday morning, after a thug armed with a samurai sword crawled into their restaurant through a drive-through window. “No one was injured or anything, so that’s fantastic,” a store manager said, adding the employees in question had all been sent home to get some rest.

“They are a little shaken up, though.”

The incident began just before 5:30 a.m., when a car pulled into the drive-through lane of the McDonald’s.

Winnipeg police Const. Shelly Glover said a man armed with a samurai-style sword and a metal pipe confronted an employee, eventually forcing his way through the drive-through window and into the restaurant, Glover said.

Once inside, the suspect held the sword to a 17-year-old manager’s throat while ordering the other staffers - two of them 17, the other 31 - onto the floor.

I’ve blogged on criminals-with-swords stories a number of times in the past, and they are almost always from countries with tight levels of gun control.

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