Swords....

[hobbitomm]

Our delightful First Minister, Jack McConnell, has introduced a bill to ban, amongst other generally sensible ideas, the sale and carrying in public of swords in Scotland. A recent Scotsman
article on the subject can be found at the following page, ~ http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1345182004

Which is all very well and good, but it's not likely to reduce the number of blade wounds significantly, which is the supposed point. Obviously this will have an effect on, amongst other things....

Tourism
Antiques Sales
Fencing
Historical Re-enactments
Highland Dancing
Religious/Masonic ritualists

If you are against this concept, you can mail the First Minister, or the Justice Minister at jack.mcconnell.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
cathy.jamieson.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
respectively, or you can join in the petition at

http://www.petitiononline.com/Swords/petition.html

Comments

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me: Oh, god, talk about a blast from the past. Last night I went to auditions for Carpe Jugulem, that my theatre group is putting on. And, of course, I had to audish for Igor.

"Yetthhhhhhhh, marrrtttthhhhhhhhtttter...."
("Niceth ankleth, mitthhhhtttreeethhhh...")

I don't know if I got the part yet, but I did spit all over the script.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

That'll freak out Copperbird ;)

Did you offer to lick anyones ankles?

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

No. :-)

[copperbird.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha!

Did they give you a little trolley? :)

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

I went off my trolley years ago. :-)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

And don't we just know it?

We should do another games meet some time!