Scottish Answer to Crime: Knife Control

npr.org ^ | August 14, 2006 | Michele Norris

[grundle]

All Things Considered, August 14, 2006 · In an effort to reduce the stabbings and slashings that stem from the country's "booze and blade" culture, Scotland is cracking down on the sale of swords, machetes, meat cleavers and other knifes. Knife violence accounts for almost half of the homicides in Scotland each year.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Speaking of rocks, there has always been the question of what a Scotsman wears under his kilt. Well we know now they aren't big and made of brass.

I guess now I can write off that part of my ancestry as poor genitic material. I always thought that the peat used in making Scotch was toxic, that question is still unanswered but it sure causes genetic mutation.

[Elpasser]

I thought the handguns were to blame, and everything would be peaceful when they were banned!

[magslinger]

Did you see that comedian they had last weekend? He got a little drunk, but he's a real cutup.

[Cobra64]

Long way from Braveheart.

[Lokibob]

Thats the problem with spellchecker. If you make a mistake and it forms a word, spellchecker will let it pass. However, my tag line says it all.

[Churchillspirit]

No more carrying a dirk in the sock?

I think you mean a sgian dubh. The dirk is huge and worn hanging from the waist.

I sell these items in my store and there is much more demand nowadays for the safe sgian dubh - i.e. one without a blade.

Sign of the times.

FRegards,

[holymoly]

In an effort to reduce the stabbings and slashings that stem from the country's "booze and blade" culture

It's not the "booze and blade" culture! It's the haggis!

Main Entry: hag·gis
Pronunciation: 'ha-g&s
Function: noun
: a traditionally Scottish dish that consists of the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or a calf minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings and boiled in the stomach of the animal

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Dirkuh!!! Dirkuh!!! Dirkuh!!!

[Cobra64]

Whe I lived in CO, we used to go to old mining towns. One bar had a sign:

"Liquor in the Front, Poker in the Rear"

[jla]

Knife violence accounts for almost half of the homicides in Scotland each year.

This from a country where a majority of the populace bemoans America's 'gun culture'.

[Madame Dufarge]

I imagine future thesauruses designating Scotland as a synonym for "suffocation."

My late grandfather MacDonald would agree.

[lowbridge]

My late grandfather MacDonald would agree.

Is he the guy who invented the Big Mac? ;-)

[Sentis]

We need to have a "Clan Freeper" meeting at the Games next year. I assume you meant you were at the Grnadfather MT Highland games I bet tons of freepers are there.

[Oztrich Boy]

In memoriam Scotland that was

[Chode]

Right!!! Well then... henceforth, all things sharp will be banned, and all things pointy shall also be banned, and anything that is sharp AND pointy is right out!!!

Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!

Well, lets see... that about cover it then???

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Sure ye laugh now, but what will yoe do when they come for the forks and pitchforks.

That was funny as Hell.

[Chode]

p.s. my blade of choice... Puma TAC-1

[madison10]

.45 under mah kilt.

This is my rifle, this is my gun... ;)