Guys come on, a fucking kid was murdered. At least try to be respectful.
I don’t want to undercut the tragedy of lost life here, but I pity people doing HEMA fencing or similar hobbies in UK.
As I understand it the government was already stupid about some anti-sword/knife laws and this won’t help…
A sword, Mal!
How weird is that?
See! SWORDS also kill people! Even though he could have killed that entire boys family plus a couple more with a gun, I DON’T CARE! PRO LIFE!
Please keep your Murica shit in Murica. Thank you.
I feel like he was being sarcastic
Irrelevant.
is it, though?
It’s stupid Murica shit either way, so yes, it is.
I’d venture a guess the majority of users here are American and just trying to solve our stupid American shit.
If you don’t care, then just ignore. If you do care about reducing deaths in America, then let these conversations play out.
Posting some polemic kneejerk reactionary comments about Murica in threads that are not about America is not going to reduce deaths in America. It only derails the actual topic with Americentrism that other people will just perceive as rude.
“Thoughts and prayers” seems to have crossed the pond. I genuinely hope they are more useful over there, because they are absolutely worthless here and usually indicate that nothing of consequence will be done about the matter.
Either everyone got whooshed by your sarcasm and underlying point or there are more gun lubbers on here than I thought.
Hmm almost as if, swords, like guns, are weapons made to kill things.
I’d rather be shot than killed with a sword, tbh.
They got the attacker alive at least. He’s in for a bad time.
Good.
King Charles III said his thoughts and prayers were with the family of the young victim, and he saluted the courage of emergency workers, Buckingham Palace said.
“King Charles III” still sounds so weird to me. The last story I ran across with his name in it was about either Ireland or Scotland, I can’t remember which, and it took me longer than I care to admit to realize it wasn’t some sly Jacobite comment.
He got it wrong. Kill the father, wound the boy. Then he grows up and hunts you down with a catch phrase he’s prepared for the occasion.
Just ensure you have an odd number of fingers before initiating.
Holds up five fingers
But I already do!
I thought cops wearing chainmail was ridiculous, but maybe London police should have something like this:
It’s about as ridiculous as wearing plate carriers against firearms.
What the fuck man.
What kind of sword?