[MR] Australia to ban swords

[Karen]

Sorry, guys, but this is yet another case of prosecuting the weapon rather than the hand that wields it.  How irksome.  

It's not a sword's fault it was used in an...antisocial way.  But the hands that hold and use them should be the subject of prosecution, not the weapons themselves.  The same applies to bans on other weapons as well, and I cannot, in good conscience, see my way clear to those regulations either.  

I'm sorry to see this happening.  I really am. :(

So utterly American it makes my teeth hurt,
-- Magpie