I think this whole design is a little bit pseudo-philosophic, pseudo-intellectual. I think it’s just wannabe and shows that UK design is still in a crisis. A shame.

As a free bonus, criminals are free to attack citizens at will, without fear of an armed response. This, too, will continue until free men rise up and reassert themselves.

But as long as you live in a country where a paper drawing of a weapon is a crime, you will never be a free people.

Here a quote from one of the American colonists:

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
– Thomas Jefferson

England has been banning and controlling weapons since the 1920’s, and yet the violent crime rate just keeps on increasing.

I have the solution.

BAN HANDS!!!

Do It For The Children!

This is satirising the disarmament of the peaceful, law-abiding population. (Not “gun crime” in the normal sense, though if any of these were sufficiently “replica” to count, they’d be illegal. Freedom of expression, anyone?).

Britain had no gun control to speak of at the turn of the last century, and likewise no gun crime to speak of.

Now it has both, and a higher rate of non-gun crimes as well.

Some might be tempted to imagine that the disarmament of the peaceful mass of the populace and criminalisation of even defending one’s life and property with so much as a stick might be relevant to that fact, and that mocking gun-phobia and the culture of disempowerment it reflects would be social commentary of the most useful sort.

Socially irrelevant, indeed.

Seems to me it’s rather too relevant for many of the commenters, who wish it weren’t.

August 19th, 2008 at 7:16 am
blah blah blah, dezeen. another post on yet another socially irrelevant design.”

gun crime= socially irrelevant!!??? What the f!?
What ever you think of this design its a lot more socially relevant that yet another bland, over done chair or table lamp, at least he’s attempting to explore an issue that isn’t “explore the qualities of the material” or another constantly heard topic.