I can just imagine how this will go:
“Waiter! Can I have a steak knife for my steak?”
Waiter: “No, they were banned by our city council.”
So true. And I like the way you stated that.
Imbeciles in action! Knives are hard to control in prison. How do these dipsticks think this could work?
Loony!
It bears repeating, over and over again. Knives are not tools, they can be used as such, but they are protected because they are weapons. They are arms. Knives, swords, blowguns, saps, daggers, etc, are all constitutionally protected, and those laws that ban them are unconstitutional. In the focus to protect gun rights, too often we ignore that knives have been legislated away in many regions and carrying one can cause a felony conviction - and of course, get a felony conviction, and chances are, your gun rights are taken away as well.
The continued references in the article to knives being tools does a disservice to everyone. It is pretending that they shouldn't be regulated when they are protected from regulation.
Hmmm, well what about scissors?
I can throw scissors just as well as I can throw a blade.
Hopefully they don’t go after icepicks and railroad spikes next, cuz I can throw those too, and they are dangerous :D
We need hammer control! To witness an expert carpenter wielding a claw hammer is enough to strike fear into a strong man’s heart. No untrained homeowner should have a claw hammer in his possession, these weapons are far too dangerous, a federal license should be required to sell any hammer weighing more than four ounces. Then there is the matter of screwdrivers, no screwdriver with a shaft more than one inch long should be allowed. Then we need to outlaw automatic assault nail guns. Now let’s talk about walking sticks. I can go on and on and on until I drop dead of old age and never run out of potential weapons to outlaw.
The Demokratik Peoples Republik Of Mass. is every bit as insane as the Demokratik Peoples Republik of Kalifornia. However Crazy people Don’t know that they are crazy. They think everyone else is nutz...
Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
Ping
Knive/melee weapon control is a lot less complicated then gun control. A bad guy can get a knife or bludgeoning weapon no matter what, period, end of story. They mention that they can’t control it even in micromanaged FREAKING PRISON. Even if you take away everything with edges, you can still grind a point on a butterknife. You can grind a point on a fracking toothbrush. What about bludgeoning weapons? Baseball bats and lead pipes. ROCKS.
Again, a criminal will always be able to find a mellee weapon no matter what. It is bad enough with emotional idiot politicians, but the police are supporting this crock too? Grrrr
If I told you the story of bringing wood to be recycled and burnt in an energy boiler in the Peoples Socialist Republik of Taxachuetts, this summer....you wouldn’t believe me...
the emperor of the time was afraid of being assassinated at dinner - so he banned dangerous eating utensils and ordered chop sticks as the order of the day.
We are getting close to such insanity.
no guns, then no knives. then no bats, then no forks, then no knitting needles, then........................
People intent on doing harm will always find a weapon. Broken beer bottles have come in 'handy' many times.(Start packaging beer in baggies?)
Looks like Restoration Hardware, Sears, Walmart and some other retailers will have to pay another business license fee to comply with this nonsense.
I’d thought the Boston Knife Panic stuff was satire...
-——the Public Safety Committee of the Boston City Council ——
Mitt is one of these looters. Boston should be purged from the union
(is this a real piece)
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BOWIE KNIFE.
These horrid weapons are usually called BOWIE knives. They were invented by a man who lived in the state of Louisiana. His name was Buie(sic). It is a French name, and pronounced B'OO-E. Afterwards he went to Texas and was killed there in a battle.
People in slave states often carry such knives about them. When they get angry they draw the knife and sometimes STAB ONE ANOTHER!
A man who keeps a shop in Broadway, New York City, sells Bowie knives. (Excerpt from an article on bowie knives in THE SLAVE'S FRIEND a pamphlet published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York City.)
From Man at Arms magazine, August 1997. An NRA publication.