This is my point exactly. If I wanted to give myself a shit tattoo, why shouldn't I be able to buy this completely legal product from Amazon?
For me, honestly, the bigger issue is that it is being sold with something in the description that says "you'll make your money back in no time", or words to that effect, the implication being that you can and should start using this to make money tattooing other people.
The point made about censorship of not selling flick knives and air rifles to under-18s is neither here nor there. Those are accepted as weapons intended to maim or kill something. Tattoo machines are merely, in most people's eyes, a conduit for creativity. (Anyway, we all know any kid can grab a knife from the kitchen drawer.) But razors, really? How can it be illegal for a 16-y-o to buy a razor if he needs a shave? That's weird...
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Originally Posted by Ink Minx  We then had a similar conversation to this at work. At the end of the day its freedom of choice for people getting said tattoo, people can do what they want with their own bodies, if they want to binge drink, self harm, take drugs, unprotected sex, shit tattoos their choice and we cant tell them otherwise. I mean really you know that if your mate who has no training is tattooing you from their house with an ebay/amazon kit its gonna be substandard.
The thing that annoys me more is when people start opening up shops and doing it as a business. And the EHO does nothing to shop them. Uneducated Joe public falls victim unwittingly, as most would assume that if you go into a health registered shop with flash designs, that they are going to walk away with a reasonable standard tattoo. They are the poor punters who really didnt know better. |
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