BBC news: Catapult ban petition to get government response

[Wing Commander]

Perhaps if we had a controlled return to firmer not softer approaches in schools and more discipline then future generations of kids would grow up with better moral compasses and proper respect for knives, guns and catapults and their acceptable use.

I mean come on. Just William, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids. Are we really not suggesting banning 'proper' childhoods?....

Spot on. . . No arguments here.

 

[martin st ledger]

Those halcyon days of childhood from an age long passed and never to return.

 

[nitram55]

Ridiculous. Just another in a long line of middle class entitled tosspots living in their swan sanctuary tennis club bubbles forcing their narrow minded views down everyone's else's throats under the veil of 'being nice'.

Of course I'm not condoning animal cruelty acts but as always it's the bellends holding the items being used and not the items themselves that are the problem.

These campaigners and their stupid virtue signalling ideas are certainly not 'nice'. It's actually their softy approach to everything and relentless campaigns to remove every 'sharp edge' that they don't like from every corner of life that fuels the underlying trend of bad behaviour which is the root cause. Their actions actually perpetuate and accelerate the very things they claim they are fighting to stop.

Perhaps if we had a controlled return to firmer not softer approaches in schools and more discipline then future generations of kids would grow up with better moral compasses and proper respect for knives, guns and catapults and their acceptable use.

I mean come on. Just William, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids. Are we really not suggesting banning 'proper' childhoods?....

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Well said, they always go after the symptoms and not the real cause.

 

[knipescar]

The police can’t enforce it as they’re too busy helping county court bailiffs or TV licencing about civil matters or spouting none existent laws to YouTube auditors why worry …

 

[Rickyt]

Big changes to come I fear. I hear these things below are the next thing to get banned. Apparently they can be converted to fire a .303 round.

 

[Gregothe1st]

You could save the wrappers from Bazooka Joe bubble gum & send off for a penknife when the world was normal & you only cut yourself once, lesson was learnt but always remembered.

Anybody remember the 60s or 70s bazooka Joe advert in the bubblegum advertising a bb gun with the words "Pepper your next door neighbour's cat" ?

US only obvs

How times have changed

 

[Bighit]

Blow pipes are already illegal even pea shooters.

"In the UK, blowpipes and blowguns are classified as offensive weapons and are illegal to manufacture, sell, hire, or possess for those purposes under the Criminal Justice Act 1988. You can, however, still possess them if they are antiques (over 100 years old) or for specific cultural, artistic, or educational purposes in a museum or gallery setting."

This lot better hope the powers that be don't see their Facebook pages and other adverts then. They would catch a lot of them in act .

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