[ex-Texan]

What about pencils, pens, rulers, and scissors which are all known to be weapons that can kill? HUH? DUH? OMG, we will have to strip all the schools in America of pencils, pens and rulers!

The MSM is out of its mind reporting such idiocy about knives. How can they report this nonsense with a straight face? Even a small pen knife could be used to kill.

Did you happen to see the films "The Bourne Identity" and "The Bourne Supremacy?" One film showed the protagonist using a Bic pen to defend against a knife attack. In the other film, Jason Bourne used a rolled up magazine to kill an attacker. No big deal. I was taught by a CIA operative to kill with pens, pencils, magazines and newspapers when I was just a child. A magazine is a very nasty weapon in the hands of someone who knows how to use it.

[frogjerk]

UK: Reducing knife crime, We need to ban the sale of long pointed kitchen knives,

Blunt objects and human hands will be banned next...

[Terabitten]

In the other film, Jason Bourne used a rolled up magazine to kill an attacker

The worst ass whuppin' I ever got was with a rolled up one subject notebook. My sensai beat me like a rented mule with that thing, in the course of teaching a class on improvised weapons.