Linoge Brings us This gem:
Now on its face its both funny, and true. The Brits banned guns, and “Gun Crime” (the useless metric they were attempting to lower) went up. Ha, stupid law!
But me being the dork I am I looked at the picture more closely. The British snot is being faced by 6 arms…three are holding guns (unknown if any are loaded or real) the other three hold a knife, a Knuckle Duster, and a broken bottle. Even if the Brits were successful at banning guns is the Snoot any better off? No, Three (or More) guys with knives, Brass Knuckles, broken bottles, pipes, or sticks are still going to kill your ass with minimal effort.
How about we ban EVERYTHING (first we need to pretend that somehow people will begin drinking their wine out of plastic bottles, and trees will grow rubber limbs, and rocks will stay planted on the ground…a ripe impossibility) Now what does the cartoon show?
A middle-aged British snot being accosted by 6 young gentleman armed only with fists and feet and bad attitudes. Not only is the last scenario impossible, but is accomplishes NOTHING.
Of course let’s say all six of those guys were at a funeral the night before because a buddy of theirs had attempted to rape a woman who had a .38 in her purse….how does that change the cartoon?
The sad thing is that the Brits generated some of the most interesting culture, styles, and even firearms… and there they go, just abandoning all of that for the sake of… what? Deluding themselves into believing that just because they ban a physical object, said physical object will simply dematerialize and disappear? It really is a consummate shame, aggrivated by the fact that they are bringing it down on themselves…