In recognition of the rabid determination of the Liberals, NDP and Bloc to burn another $96.5M at the feet of the Gun Registry God[tm], I present this glimpse of the future, as it exists today in Britian.
Pencil sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child’s neck. … The attacker was suspended for two days and is now back in school. … Headteacher David Willis has now banned all pencil sharpeners. But the decision to allow the boy to return to school has angered parents. Some have signed a petition calling on the school to permanently expel the youngster.
The school management argued that while pencil sharpeners could be proscribed the attacker could not be prevented from returning. Tracy Buckley, the school’s head of governors, has written to all parents, saying the school understood the gravity of the incident and acted accordingly. The letter states: “The school, like every other school, has a duty to promote ‘inclusion’ of all pupils. The emphasis of the (DfES) guidance is that a permanent exclusion is discouraged and to be considered as a last resort in very extreme circumstances. A fixed period exclusion was entirely appropriate for the circumstances.”� … Yesterday, the Manchester Evening News reported how teachers at Priestnall High School in Stockport started acting as bodyguards, patrolling streets round their school, following attacks on five pupils.
Via Belmont Club. Go read the rest.
I dunno why, but this reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch where they are being trained to deal with being attacked by fruit, and they keep asking if they can be trained to fight off someone who attacks them with a pointed stick.
I guess it is that people who wish to hurt others will find some way of doing so, even if it is just with rocks and pointed sticks, or in this case, pencil sharpener blades….
As an American looking at Britain, I keep thinking of watching an aged relative with Altzheimers gradually lose all sentience.
It’s not a pretty sight.
Everytime there’s a gun murder, people yell about more gun control. They *never* yell about punishing the person more severely.
The pro-gun people say “ban guns today and there will be a kitchen knife or baseball bat murder next week”.
The anti-gun people say it would never go that far.
This has gone well beyond kitchen knives and baseball bats.
There is nothing wrong with pencil sharpeners – there IS something wrong with that kid.
I remember when I was attending school in the north of England, I was always deathly afraid of being stabbed by a pair of compasses.
Of course, it wasn’t the point that scared me, but the kid holding it.
They can add that to the national ‘box cutter’ registry.
Why do the chief of police support the gun registry?