A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in an east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said.
  • @[email protected]English
    29•7 months ago

    I don’t want to undercut the tragedy of lost life here, but I pity people doing HEMA fencing or similar hobbies in UK.

    As I understand it the government was already stupid about some anti-sword/knife laws and this won’t help…

    • @[email protected]English
      14•7 months ago

      Swords are already pretty regulated in the UK last I learnt about this topic. Matt Easton from Schola Gladiatoria has a video on it somewhere

  • @[email protected]English
    23•7 months ago

    See! SWORDS also kill people! Even though he could have killed that entire boys family plus a couple more with a gun, I DON’T CARE! PRO LIFE!

      • SigilosEnglish
        5•7 months ago

        “Thoughts and prayers” seems to have crossed the pond. I genuinely hope they are more useful over there, because they are absolutely worthless here and usually indicate that nothing of consequence will be done about the matter.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•7 months ago

      Either everyone got whooshed by your sarcasm and underlying point or there are more gun lubbers on here than I thought.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•7 months ago

          If anyone directly subjected to the tragedy were here I might be inclined to agree, but this isn’t the funeral. So personally I think it’s a great time to connect the dots between this event, and what could’ve been had the lethal effectiveness of the shooter been elevated. With the goal in mind to mitigate future tragedies, I see nothing tone deaf about it. I see it as very productive.

          I mean really, what else are we supposed to talk about in these comments…?

  • wjrii
    19•7 months ago

    King Charles III said his thoughts and prayers were with the family of the young victim, and he saluted the courage of emergency workers, Buckingham Palace said.

    “King Charles III” still sounds so weird to me. The last story I ran across with his name in it was about either Ireland or Scotland, I can’t remember which, and it took me longer than I care to admit to realize it wasn’t some sly Jacobite comment.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    19•7 months ago

    He got it wrong. Kill the father, wound the boy. Then he grows up and hunts you down with a catch phrase he’s prepared for the occasion.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•7 months ago

    I thought cops wearing chainmail was ridiculous, but maybe London police should have something like this: