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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:35AM baby sea tuna said

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But without knives to fend off attacks, we'd probably all be speakin Rush'n right about now!

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:39AM Slaziman said

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I was just about to complain about seeing that image yet again, hahaha well played Joystiq!

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:42AM (Unverified) said

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They should ban guns, then people wouldn't be killing each other....oh, wait....

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:08AM heypaul said

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Good luck offing 20+ people in a school stabbing. It's a simple concept, really. If you don't want your cat to claw up your furniture, get him declawed. Sure, he might still gnaw at stuff, but let's see him chew up that whole couch.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 11:29AM Crono141 said

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Declawing is a terrible practice. How would you like the last joint on all your fingers removed?
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 11:29AM Crono141 said

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Declawing is a terrible practice. How would you like the last joint on all your fingers removed?
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 12:12PM heypaul said

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So is fishing, taxidermy and eating meat. I'm not arguing for cats to keep their limbs or for your right to remove them. I'm just illustrating by example.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 2:09PM Crono141 said

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Except with fishing, the fish ends up dead (and eaten), or thrown back. Fish have no pain receptors in their mouths where the hook catches.

Taxidermy: The animal is already dead.

Declawing: Maiming your pets feet, leaving them permanently deformed, so you don't have to worry about a scratched up couch.

yeah, those are all totally equivalent.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 2:57PM heypaul said

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Never said that any of them were equivalent or that I endorsed them; just trying to prove a point. You're just mad I attacked you and Mel Gibson's right to carry a gun.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 3:09PM Crono141 said

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"The greatest thing about the second amendment is that you won't have need of it until someone tries to take it away."
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 3:20PM heypaul said

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Flawless in concept. And so was Communism.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 4:48PM Geist said

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My history teacher always used to say that Communism is perfect, and would've worked, except that people screwed everything up.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:46AM (Unverified) said

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Swords! They'll cut you wide open!

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:53AM (Unverified) said

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I remember when my school adopted a zero tolerence policy... and I had to spend a couple days in detention from having one of these ( http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BN0A3KYAL._AA280_.jpg ) deadly objects in my lunchbox. Thanks god they caught me before I could hurt others

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:24AM baby sea tuna said

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Well, obviously. I mean, it looks like something out of one of those "Saw" movies!
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 11:43AM (Unverified) said

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knowing the saw movies... I wouldn't be surprised if one was actually in there
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:57AM (Unverified) said

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I knifed some peeps last night in some CS:Source Gungame... good times.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:13AM tcc3 said

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Did you know that paranormal activity increased sharply in the 80's just when Pacman's popularity was at its peak? Its true!


Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:37AM Rocketboy said

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Joke grenade. Pull the pin... wait for it... wait for it.. chuckle...

Well played.

(and i HATE the 'that was funny' posts, and you just made me make one...)
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:17AM proxifuel said

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Yeah it has helped alot actually, the murder rate per 1000 citizens is just a fraction in the UK of that in the USA.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:17AM (Unverified) said

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As much as I love my country, It ain't half run by an idiot. Games probably have very little to do with knife crime. Alot less than TV and Film. It's the chav/gang culture thats the problem.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 5:41PM (Unverified) said

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Per capita, England tops the US in violent crime.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:40AM Rocketboy said

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Come back and talk politics when you've kicked out the "royal" family. Also, the House of Lords. Look into it if you're looking for a cluster-f of politics.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 2:18PM dasiki said

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Whilst the HoL is unelected, it does do a far better job of controlling the legislative than the upper house in the states. also since they dont change they can build up large amounts of expertise.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:19AM (Unverified) said

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At least we dont have the annual school shootings that seem so prevalent in your country...

Anyway, Brown's got the right ideas, but he's going about them in the wrong way. Most people carry knives these days because they're worried about getting knifed themselves. Video games have nothing to do with this at all. Though at least he says the state getting involved would not be the right way to go.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:28AM SSUK said

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You see, to every Briton over 30 years old, "Video game" translates to "Whatever Rockstar Games produces". Thus, we should ignore them on whatever they think on video games.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:32AM (Unverified) said

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He keeps them coming his rediculous and pointless statements. To give our American or generally non British friends on here some context. Brown's party is seriously down in the polls and getting their behind kicked by the Conservative party. He's getting a tad desperate as this "knife speech" is part of his 3rd relaunch since november. The nannying, interfereing Id card weilding (bloody high taxing) closet socialists are going down big time.

Video games are a soft easy topic for a beaten man.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 12:01PM Crono141 said

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So what your saying is that the party elected because the opposition was the "lapdog of bush" is even worse than the lapdog of bush?

This is why you shouldn't let anger guide your vote.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 1:10PM NeoNaoNeo said

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He's in the same party as Blair you idiot. He's Prime Minister because Blair stood down.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 2:10PM Crono141 said

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Wait, so you didn't have an election to replace blair after his term was up?

Is that some kind of legal loophole?
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 2:01AM ThornedVenom said

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Their legal loophole is having a queen and lords in a democracy.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 8:47AM Spakkenkhrist said

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In the UK we vote for a party represented by the party leader, therefore if the party leader steps down/is fired/dies etc. another leader is elected by the party.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:36AM R0ck said

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Remember, knives don't kill people, ah--never mind...!

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 9:41AM (Unverified) said

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This is possibly the most sensible politicians statement on violence in videogames. He does not blame them, he does not threaten censorship. He simply asks to reconsider. Although there aren't many games focused on knifes, guns are all the rage.

This is a videogames blogs so stop using it to air your political beliefs. Noone cares about your position on the Labour party. This is aimed at commenters and not Joystiq.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:07AM (Unverified) said

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"Reconsider" is political speak for "do it or we will do it for you". This is the first shot so he can later claim he tried "raising his concerns but talks failed so regretfully he needs to step things up. Oh, and think of the children."
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:03AM Crono141 said

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You don't have annual school shootings because your countries population is a small fraction of ours. Add more people, add more crazies. Its the law of averages.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:04AM (Unverified) said

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The British government has talked about banning knives before. They even got Jamie Oliver to publicly state chefs can do perfectly well with normal size knives and don't need cleavers.


@Daniel D
The deaths per capita in the UK has been higher than the US for many years. It exploded after the UK gun bans became more draconian.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:09AM Sir SpankalotUK said

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We need a modern day Guy Fawkes, the crap our beloved politicians keep coming out with it just pathetic.

All we need now is the handbook on how to be the model citizen.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:41AM (Unverified) said

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The world needs main modern day Guy Fawkes.

The problem is that any modern day Guy Fawkes, would be branded as a terrorist, there would have to be a change in the world before a modern day Guy Fawkes would be seen as a revolutionary.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:15AM (Unverified) said

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FACT: The UK is a police state.

FACT: Everything you see in V for Vendetta, Children of Men, etc. is the future of England.

FACT: This is why the USA became a country. This and taxes. Well, also some other reasons that are too complicated to list in a 3-point "FACT" sheet.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:38AM Nigeria said

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I like your facts.

They're like opinions.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 1:58AM ThornedVenom said

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FACT: Everything you see in V for Vendetta, Children of Men, etc. is the future of England


HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:37AM Nigeria said

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The Sun newspaper is the journalistic equivalent of paying for re-spawaning haemorrhoids attached to your eyes which bleed without remorse.

Basically, The Sun sucks.

And speaking as a Londoner, there is no knife problem, it's just an exaggeration to distract the public from important things. Like boredom.

Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:46AM Jakey777 said

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No knife problems...yeah just cos people don't usually have balls to walk right next to a gang of teens/other chavs.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:57AM Nigeria said

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I'm not superman, but I genuinely have no feeling of unease when walking past groups of "chavs".

There is no hostility on the streets on London, it really is a myth. I know of nobody personally who has been attacked in the last couple of years.

London is one of the safest cities in the world. Why are we always complaining?
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 10:57AM Nigeria said

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I'm not superman, but I genuinely have no feeling of unease when walking past groups of "chavs".

There is no hostility on the streets on London, it really is a myth. I know of nobody personally who has been attacked in the last couple of years.

London is one of the safest cities in the world. Why are we always complaining?
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 2:03AM ThornedVenom said

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You are always complaining because France is across the Channel.

And because your weather sucks.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 6:41AM (Unverified) said

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Nope. They just use a crow bar, break your legs at 4pm and steal all your shit while they kick and spit on your. Fellow friend of mine, 2 years ago, London.
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Posted: Jan 16th 2008 11:51AM Nigeria said

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Yeah that's really sad.

But for every horror story like that another couple million people live in peace.

I don't mean to diminish your friends pain but that really is just an anomaly in what is a rather safe city (considering the amount of people living here).
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 11:06AM wirikidor said

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Just goes to show you that no matter if you take away peoples guns or knives, people will still find ways to kill other people.

After this let's see how many death by vehicle or being pushed out of a tall building goes up.

Oh yeah, and ban all forms of martial arts from video games also.

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