When I was in the fourth grade the teacher would borrow a knife from one of the boys if she needed to open a package or something, we all carried pocket knives. She liked to eat an apple every day but she didn’t normally use a knife for that, she just put both hands on it and twisted it in two in the center. No I am NOT joking, she did it, I never could understand it, she said it was easy if you ever learn how.
That was America in the fifties. A knife was a portable tool, not a weapon.
Knives and guns are STILL tools. Limp-wristed idiots and Liberals demonize them as “killing implements,” but they never seem to cite the number of suicides by hanging, OD, drownings, etc. as a comparison.
Tools become legal issues when a small group of people gripe about how easy they are to come by or by how many people have them. Like I’ve read before, when Liberals go into fits about something, it’s generally safe to say that it’s something that an overwhelming majority of people find useful or recreationally enjoyable.