England bans Ninja Swords. WTF England?

[Phoenixmgs]

Ninja swords banned by summer as manifesto commitment delivered

Final part of Ronan’s Law introduced in Parliament thanks to campaigning of Kanda family.

www.gov.uk

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

The UK had a weird moral panic about ninjas in the 80's and 90's (I'm pretty sure it was a racist dog whistle) and the current government seems to think it's wortwhile appealing to people's nostalgia for it.

 

[Worgen]

Weren't those already banned?

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Guess shorts can't be linked like normal vids.

 

[Chimpzy]

Weren't those already banned?

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Guess shorts can't be linked like normal vids.

You can embed shorts, but it takes a workaround. Shorts are actually just normal vids, but their urls are formatted differently. So the forum can't recognize them as youtube videos, because the software its built on was never updated to.

If you put the video id, in this case _TG4-CfiSko, between [ media=youtube ] [ /media ] tags without the spaces, it embeds.



Same with twitter posts. Replace x.com with twitter.com, and it embeds again.

 

[Casual Shinji]

How are British ninjas supposed to get anything done now!?

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

The disabled and vulnerable here in UK are being systematically stripped of money to live but oh no the thing that people notice and post about is fucking weapons not being as accessible as they once were, for fucks sake take a step back and get some bloody perspective, dare I suggest even self reflection. keep that american kunty brain rot off these shit saturated shores, ta very much

 

[Phoenixmgs]

The disabled and vulnerable here in UK are being systematically stripped of money to live but oh no the thing that people notice and post about is fucking weapons not being as accessible as they once were, for fucks sake take a step back and get some bloody perspective, dare I suggest even self reflection. keep that american kunty brain rot off these shit saturated shores, ta very much

I don't live in the UK, I just found that banning ninja swords was fucking stupid is all.

 

[Worgen]

You can embed shorts, but it takes a workaround. Shorts are actually just normal vids, but their urls are formatted differently. So the forum can't recognize them as youtube videos, because the software its built on was never updated to.

If you put the video id, in this case _TG4-CfiSko, between [ media=youtube ] [ /media ] tags without the spaces, it embeds.

Ahh, neat, do you know how to embed tumblr vids also? Nothing I do seems to work.

 

[Chimpzy]

Ahh, neat, do you know how to embed tumblr vids also? Nothing I do seems to work.

Sorry, I don't. Tumbl is not on the list of approved sites, so I don't think you can.

 

[Catfood220]

I don't live in the UK, I just found that banning ninja swords was fucking stupid is all.

The UK has a real problem with knife crime and has been taking steps to stop people easily getting their hands on the more dangerous bladed weapons available on the internet. I would of thought the banning of swords would be a good step towards stopping people stabbing other people with sharp objects.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

The UK has a real problem with knife crime and has been taking steps to stop people easily getting their hands on the more dangerous bladed weapons available on the internet. I would of thought the banning of swords would be a good step towards stopping people stabbing other people with sharp objects.

I can see a law saying you can't walk around with a ninja sword in public but this is you literally can't have a ninja sword.

 

[Gergar12]

London is a densely populated city, so it's not surprising. I will say the UK should focus more on getting orgs/companies to create jobs in the UK, like tech jobs, and getting more nurses to the NHS.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Weren't those already banned?

Any curved blade over about 20 inches would already be classed as a sword and thus would already be illegal in many cases.

For blades under that length though, I don't think they're covered by any of the existing categories of weapons that are illegal to manufacture or own. I absolutely thought they were covered by existing legislation though.

I can see a law saying you can't walk around with a ninja sword in public but this is you literally can't have a ninja sword.

With a few exceptions you can't legally carry any bladed weapon in public in the UK (concealed or otherwise). There's a certain amount of discretion built into the law as to whether you have a "good reason" to do so, which means it's not quite as bad as it sounds, but it is pretty strict.

There's also a list of categories of knives which are illegal to own, usually knives which are either built to be concealed or which have an explicitly violent purpose.