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Knife Killings in City Increased 50 Percent in 2008
nyt ^ | April 27, 2009 | By CHRISTINE HAUSER

Posted on 04/28/2009 7:16:27 PM PDT by Flavius

A psychotherapist in an Upper East Side office. A young woman working in a grocery store. A city bus driver behind the wheel in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on a lunchtime route.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: knife; knifes; knives

1 posted on 04/28/2009 7:16:27 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

We need knife control. Everyone should now be required to register their silverware.


2 posted on 04/28/2009 7:18:20 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (President George W. Bush, RINO-in-Chief.)
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To: Thane_Banquo

yup also one Butter knife per month limit as well


3 posted on 04/28/2009 7:20:03 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Someone might want to remember the 2nd amendment when the upcoming craze to ban knives and other weapons goes into effect.
4 posted on 04/28/2009 7:20:15 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: Flavius
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Someone might want to remember the 2nd amendment when the upcoming craze to ban knives and other weapons goes into effect.
5 posted on 04/28/2009 7:20:21 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: Flavius

Knife? I have a very sharp knife... A Kershaw knife...I also have a G27....Which do you prefer??? Don’t bring your dull-ass cheap p.o.s. to my gunfight....


6 posted on 04/28/2009 7:22:08 PM PDT by waterhill
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To: waterhill

sarc....


7 posted on 04/28/2009 7:24:36 PM PDT by waterhill
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To: Flavius

But...bb..but..we need gun control!


8 posted on 04/28/2009 7:29:29 PM PDT by Commander X (Liberalism: Spurring the decay of the USA)
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To: Commander X

Thats precisely right

they should ban people

that should solve it all


9 posted on 04/28/2009 7:30:28 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: waterhill

Heh! I have a lightsaber.
MUAAHAHAHAAA!!!

(They’re a b!tch to sharpen, though)


10 posted on 04/28/2009 7:32:00 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: Flavius

Knives - when you want to be up close and personal.

Yep. NYC - the home of the knife-killers. Another Bloomberg success.


11 posted on 04/28/2009 7:35:39 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Knives - when you want to be up close and personal.

That is also what UK thugs turned to when guns became harder to obtain. Soon they realized that in a city a knife is often a better weapon than a gun: it is silent, it is cheap, it is not controlled, it requires no ammo, it is not easily traceable, and with little practice it inflicts horrific damage. One could easily kill with a knife in a dense crowd or in a subway car, and nobody would even know.

12 posted on 04/28/2009 8:30:51 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Flavius

Does that mean that gun crimes are down?


13 posted on 04/28/2009 8:35:02 PM PDT by Boiling point (If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.)
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To: Thane_Banquo
We need knife control. Everyone should now be required to register their silverware.

Absolutely, and not a moment too soon. So many dangerous potential weapons out there, so little time to ban them all. Once we are required to register our silverware, we'll all be relegated to one governemt issue spork per person.

;-)

14 posted on 04/28/2009 8:52:41 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: Thane_Banquo; Flavius

It is sad to see that seemingly random crime is creeping back up. It seems it really was a little safer there under Guiliani.


15 posted on 04/28/2009 8:55:00 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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To: Flavius

When the wolves kill the sheep, where is shepherd Bloomberg? He’s in Virginia, telling Virginians how they should make themselves wolves’ meat, too. FUBAR. The inmates truly are running the asylum.


16 posted on 04/28/2009 9:35:28 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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