Carrying Knifes

[mart]

You don't get it do you brebear?
Or are you being deliberately obtuse?
Give us references so we can make up our own minds. At least we know which direction you are coming from.

Mart

[mart]

PS
I have more respect for the Warwickshire Police site than that Matrixbookstore bollocks....Wisdom of the Ancients indeed.

Mart

[DavidS]

Brerbear seems to be quite reasonably pointing out that because something is quoted on a web site does not make it a fact. He is the only contributor to this thread who has actually quoted the Act and Section which covers the carrying of blades. Whether or not ones religious belief or ethnic origin is a reasonable excuse can only be decided by a court.

[Spook]

"enough said"

Yep - enough to show that you have a certain "interest" in immigrant communities which makes your "information" all the more doubtful.

[Fred]

So we're all going to be murdered in our beds by Sikhs using the miniature knives in their turbans.

Fuck it, you're going to have to launch another of your internet petitions brebear.

[Mrs McCavity]

I always found a machete far more scarry than a knive anyway. In Scotland we are not allowed legally to wear a dress knive down the sock Skean-du ?. Hire shops now give a fake one.

Phil On Bevs

[mart]

Do they also provide a fake one for under the kilt?

Mart

[DavidS]

My understanding, although I am prepared to be corrected, is that the carrying of knives and other weapons became illegal in England in 1936 because of problems caused by Sir Oswald Moseley's blackshirts. The 1936 Public Order Act made it an offence to carry an offensive weapon without lawful authority. Clearly this could only be applied at public gatherings as tradesmen etc needed to carry tools which could fall into this category to carry out their business. In 1952 a Prevention of Crime Bill was introduced which made it unlawful to carry an offensive weapon at all without lawful authority or reasonable excuse. Various changes in legislation since has, more or less, stuck to this definition. It is for a court to decide what is a reasonable excuse. Whether the Crown Prosecution Service has issued new guidelines on what is a reasonable excuse, I do not know.

[BGAFD Admin]

What? No references to pork swords?