I have a lapel button that someone bought me as a gift a while back that says, "If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?" Apparently, in Australia, that option too is being shut down. I can hear people say "Oh, but it's a sword, what purpose does it have for someone to own?" Well, my wife owns one sword right now, and wants to get a second, and the reason she wants them is as works of art. I own a couple myself, for the same reason. But banning legal ownership swords because a few people have been attacked with them is ridiculous. Where does it stop? A license to carry a baseball bat? To buy a crowbar? Restrictions on the purchase of The Club(tm) because someone got hit over the head with one?
Here's my problem with laws of this sort - criminals don't obey the law! That's why they are criminals. All laws designed to disarm the population do is disarm the law-abiding citizens. You here about the gun massacres(Dunblaine, Columbine), but you rarely hear about the attempted rampages stopped by an armed civilian (several incidents in the southeast of the US), the criminals driven off by a law-abiding citizen displaying or using a firearm. "Nothing Happened" isn't news. "Tragic Occurence" is news. And it is news that fits the filters of most major American and international news sources.