This is ridiculous! Learning how to whittle was my first introduction to knives in Scouts. Now our friends across the Pond are being restricted from learning even basic knife survival? All in the name of what: political correctness? The law-abiding are being treated like common criminals.
The UK is playing to the lowest common denominator of their culture, and as a result, they are losing their culture. Pray for our friends and pray that this sort of BS doesn’t come to our shores.
Chewing the wood in shape to make what you need.
UK Boy Scout motto: Be Unprepared.
The wussification of the Free Society continues!
And when knives are banned, will a resulting 50% increase in sharpened-stick violence indicate a growing “stick-culture” in the UK?
This is beyond silly. What will happen to the UK when they are reduced to a minority of military/police with weapons skills and a majority who cannot legally or skillfully use anything as a weapon? A feudalism redux?
You could see this coming a mile away. First they come for your guns, then they come for your knives. Eventually, they’ll come for your cricket mallets and anything else that could conceivably used as a weapon.
Of course, the Muslims won’t live under such restraints. Bomb-making materials won’t be outlawed until long after they’ve removed everything one could use to fight back.
A knife is a tool no more -no less.
If someone got hit with a hammer would they outlaw hammers?
Certainly knife attacks have increased in the UK. They outlawed guns,. If someone wishes you harm they will find a weapon. Knife ,Gun, Hatchet, a Piece of rope.
This is so ridiculous.
They’ll outlaw teeth and fingernails next! The UK has become ridiculous!
Death of a once great nation...and it all began with firearms restrictions...for their own good.
I would make a crack like “how about a banana”, but we know that’s about all they have left.
Yu changed the Title. I doubt “knifes” was in the title, being it’s not a noun.
“UK Scouts are prohibited from bring knifes”
In addition to not being fluent in English.
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???
they were England when they were an Empire, but then they became meek and became england. Now they are apse'rs and have become undone, they are now UNgland...
PC-ism and nanny-ism run wild hurts Scouting.
- Anthony,
Norfolk,
6/9/2009 3:33...
One of the aims of scouting as I see it is to learn to live with Nature. i.e. Living in the wild. To do this you need a knife to cut wood, carve tools, cut ropes and string, carve your food and many other chores. Its no good being in the middle of the wilderness and then having to go back to base to see the Scout Skip to ask for the use of a knife. If taught to handle a knife properly, then I see no problem with it. Any hoodlum can get a large carving knfe from his Mum's kitchen drawer and carve up his friends in the street.
- Trevor Harvey Morris,
Thrapston, England,
6/9/2009 3:30...
Great, punish the innocent yet again. Why oh why do we not punish the people who commit knife crimes instead?
- NeilB,
Watford, Herts,
6/9/2009 3:01...
So, in the UK "Be Prepared" is no longer the Boy Scout motto; to be replaced by "Let the Government control your actions"?
Learn to tie knots, but you can't cut rope or twine; so odds are this won't help... unless you have conveniently pre-cut rope that is the correct length. Learn to set up a makeshift tent; assuming you can gnaw through the sticks to make your uprights even. Learn to make a snare.. but you'll never actually get to, because you can't cut either the rope or sticks to do so.
So basically learn to do things you'll never get to do. And as you'll never do them, you won't remember how to if you ever need to. So you'll learn nothing, and be prepared for nothing.
Scouting will now help kids feel protected in a bubble, while never letting them do anything... so they'll be unprepared for anything in life. Given that, why bother? Might as well let them play video games.
Congratulations on taking a worthwhile learning experience and stripping it of all value.
- Gekkobear,
Colorado Springs, USA,
6/9/2009 5:11
Lord Baden-Powell must be spinning in his grave over what the British Scouting Association has become, not to speak of his England being no longer “Great”. As the parent of an Eagle Scout and a former adult leader myself, I know the value boys place by earning the privilege of carrying a knife by displaying knowledge and maturity. Taking this away does nothing to address the societal sickness of the “yobs” and foreign elements that have overwhelmed the culture.