Is the government about to ban the Bat'leth?
BBC: 'Zombie knives' ban to come into force
I'm clearly not down with the street, because I didn't realise that 'Zombie knives' were a thing, or that there was enough of a problem with them that the government was instituting a ban on their sale or import. A friend of mine wonders if this ban would include the Bat'leth, the iconic Klingon multi- ( Read more... )
I'm clearly not down with the street, because I didn't realise that 'Zombie knives' were a thing, or that there was enough of a problem with them that the government was instituting a ban on their sale or import. A friend of mine wonders if this ban would include the Bat'leth, the iconic Klingon multi- ( Read more... )
A blunted sword is still dangerous, and a filed-flat 1mm edge can still slash your skin, muscles and bone. It can and will cut into the neck far enough to kill you if you fail to identify and evade a half-circle swing. The point, even if blunted down to the rounded end of the knives in your company canteen, can still penetrate your neck or ribcage, if thrust by a beginner-level swordsman.
Even the bokken - the wooden training sword used in kendo and aikido - will flay your skin if used in a 'drawing' stroke or slash, and the 'point' will penetrate your ribcage or abdomen with a committed and accurate thrust from a moderately-capable swordsman.
Likewise, the rounded 'point' of a wooden tanto knife.
So will the point of a biro.
Your point about weapon laws is, of course, correct. But the law is both stricter than you think, and more lenient: screwdrivers, baseball bats, biros and bokkens will get you a prison sentence if you use them as weapons in committing a violent crime, or threaten to do so.
'Real' weapons, far more lethal than the bokken and wooden tanto I have used in training for the last decade, can lawfully be owned and used by fit and proper persons; the layman's working definition of them being 'members of a society or federation of clubs with articles of association that lay out lawful purposes for their use and credible membership and discipliniary procedures'. There may be other ways of owning and training with edged weapons, but I am not aware of them; and I would have no problems whatsoever with a more explicit scheme of licensing.
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