What exactly is the number of Boy Scouts involved in these attacks?
I have a feeling the number is zero.
Unless the scouts are committing the acts of knife violence, how can banning them from carrying knives stop the violence?
Ouch. This brings back painful memories from Boy Scouts. That is, our particularly hardcore group of scoutmasters had a profoundly effective way of stimulating boys to advance in the ranks on field trips.
The youngest ones would be whittling with pocket knives, and so soon learned the value of good steel compared to the pot metal typically used in cheap blades. Their “graduation” to a sheath knife actually meant something. From there, the big push was to First Class, where they would use hatchets and axes. A lot.
Life rank Scouts finally hit it big by “getting” to use chainsaws. Clearing and harvesting cords of mesquite wood to raise money for the troop. A long weekend of harvesting wood could pay for the much of the rest of the year’s activities.
And a lot of sore muscles. But it was worth it.
this is so stupid and unnecessary. What are they afraid of, a scout may cut himself and overwhelm their socialized medicine program?
How about the little flint & steel firestarter kits? They used those to entice us to join the Cub Scouts when I was a kid. All the boys were assembled in the gym and each of us got a pie tin with a few cotton balls in it to set on fire with the flint & steel. Oh man that was fun — and of course the idea was that if you joined the Scouts you’d get to do a lot of that kind of thing. This was in the 1980s but it seems like worlds away now.