Forthcoming catapult ban?
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Funny when you talkabout catapults; this is a catapult in my language:
And this I call a slingshot.
This is what I call aspirational life goal...
I have a load of spare 6x2 stored for a decking job that wasn't required.
Guess I may have ago at making a ickle flat pack Treb!!
It's back door ID for adults
Dressed up as protecting children... surely, education in school and parental control and vigilance, plus your child feeling safe enough to trust you to deal with things that seem off is the answer.
We are being legislated out of existence.
Adults cannot be trusted with hobbies that could hurt someone
Thing is, banning something never seems to stop anything.
people still smoke, shoot each other, stab and grape.
I can't say more as I'd end up closing this thread down and being banned from the only social media of any kind I use....
I think this catapult thing won't go anywhere. Someone is on the edge, and will topple soon.
They have bigger fish to fry, and we will soon be "restored" to normality.
Stay posative folk and don't let this sort of Michael extraction get at you.
Perhaps we should all get stoned, have a good stretch and pull back from this, and let it go......
(And don't forget to aim high so that people stay safe.)
Ya get me bro!
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Most adults already have age related ID and give away huge amounts of information. Electoral register, credit files, bank accounts, mortgages, rental agreements, credit cards, driving licences, social media, mobile phone contracts, car registration, passports, supermarket loyalty cards, internet providers, utility companies etc.
The social media ban seems to me to be a bit of a sledge hammer to break the wrong nut.
We may have many forms of id but many aren't accepted, such as a FAC for voter id, or companies want a different id to what you have. My mobile phone wanted an extra id even though it was bought and topped up with a credit card. There has also been many cases with age checks on adult sites leaking personal data everywhere. I also think many people are rightfully worried to about being tracked too much and incorrect details being associated with them.
As for any likely catapult ban, they are used in a lot of crime, not just criminal damage but also killing and maiming wildlife. Seeing previous supportive comments about a crossbow ban here I wouldn't find it surprising if some catapult controls were brought in, especially if there's a death or serious incident involving one.
As ever, my opinion is it's not the inanimate object that's the problem but the person using it.
We may have many forms of id but many aren't accepted, such as a FAC for voter id, or companies want a different id to what you have. My mobile phone wanted an extra id even though it was bought and topped up with a credit card. There has also been many cases with age checks on adult sites leaking personal data everywhere. I also think many people are rightfully worried to about being tracked too much and incorrect details being associated with them.
As for any likely catapult ban, they are used in a lot of crime, not just criminal damage but also killing and maiming wildlife. Seeing previous supportive comments about a crossbow ban here I wouldn't find it surprising if some catapult controls were brought in, especially if there's a death or serious incident involving one.
As ever, my opinion is it's not the inanimate object that's the problem but the person using it.
I am pro catapult. But, I remember a story in Chicago. Neighbours, friends, who had known each other for years got into a long running quarrel over a parking space. One day it blew-up again and, this time, one party went into their house, got a gun and shot the other ... who promptly died. People don't know what they are doing when they get angry and it is possibly better that such tiffs get left to be settled by fisticuffs (with all the immediate reasons not to fight that the prospect of a proper punch-up brings). Blaming the inanimate objects is silly, obvs, but they should be regarded more like amplifiers of action rather than the sources of action itself. Unarmed, these two may have come to blows - maybe not - but one would have fallen over in the first sally, and that would have been that ... apart from a likely court case.
