Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons in Home Office crackdown

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[+] 120 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Billionaires don't go to prison, silly. Billionaires are above the law.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    lol like hell he will. The oligarchs are clearly in control of the US

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    I don't think we should be posting such pornographic fictions in this community.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    As an American: lol. Lmao even. The European mind cannot comprehend the unvarnished corruption of the American legal system

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't help but picture some stereotypical British street urchin child (think Oliver Twist) buying a knife from Amazon.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And the avatar for Amazon just carelessly hands a child a long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder sitting on a shelf and looking cool

    Mall ninja shit, my friend.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sometimes the solution to all our problems is a 10" 440A steel knife modeled after the one used by the sadistic villain in the 1986 action thriller "Cobra" starring Sylvester Stallone at his Stalloniest

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I'll bark like a dog for 7days if he spent even a single day in jail

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    0.00000000000% Chance.

    He'd buy the Judge, the Jury, the Courthouse, The News.

    More likely, it'll become retroactively legal to sell katanas to newborns.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Ok, yeah, I’m sure this is what will finally send him to prisons. 😂

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons silverware in Home Office crackdown

    FTFY.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Could, but won't. At most he'd pay a fine that would be nothing but pocket change to him.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yeah fucking right, the laws are just for us plebs.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Shyeeah,. When monkeys fly out of my butt.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Sure he could, sure...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Americans give guns to their kids and let them play with pit bulls. This wouldn't mean a thing to them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Pigs can fly and penguins can walk on lava.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does this mean online knife stores are gonna start carding?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I would be fucking ASTOUNDED if this happened.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    He could legit murder a kid with one of those knives and not serve a single day 😂

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure he paid millions to Trump to prevent prison

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Let's hope so

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Can we get a real publication instead of this fantastical comic book?

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