The UK, having effectively banned guns yet nonetheless still experiencing an increase in gun crime, finds the outlawing of things so attractive it's now extending it to certain photographs.
Mother wins ban on violent porn
A mother whose daughter died at the hands of a man obsessed with violent internet porn has won her fight for a ban on possessing such images.
The government has announced plans to make the possession of violent porn punishable by three years in jail.
Three years in jail for possessing pictures that someone in some government office will have determined to be not only porn but violent porn? Given the sad state of the British criminal justice system, that's probably longer than the sentence a murderer might serve -- no matter what his motivation.
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