Posted on 05/11/2015 11:06:53 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Once overshadowed by the hot-button gun rights debate, laws restricting knife sales and possession are the new "second front" in the battle to preserve Second Amendment rights.
The issue has gained more attention in recent years -- most recently in Baltimore, where obscure knife laws have surfaced at the center of the Freddie Gray death case. Well before that case, though, the nonprofit advocacy group Knife Rights has been steadily working in state capitals across the country to roll back or repeal longstanding knife bans and restrictions.
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When I was in high school, we all wore knives in their sheaths on our belts in classrooms and nobody gave a sht coz it is LEGAL for 400 years here. This crap is going to be stopped very soon.
If these knife laws had been repealed earlier, Freddie Gray might still be alive celebrating Mother's Day yesterday with his mom, and Marilyn Mosby would be screwing up some other prosecution case.
Not 'firearms'... just 'arms'.
/johnny
As the article points out, if the police and prosecutors can’t agree on whether the knife was illegal or not, how is a citizen supposed to know?
Another case of government overreach driven by media hysteria. Switchblades aren’t any more dangerous than any other sort of knife and most of the survival blades on sale today make them look like toothpicks anyway. It’s very handy to have a knife that you can open with a single hand because the other hand is usually holding whatever needs to be cut. I carry one “assisted-opening” knife (a Kershaw Leek) and I haven’t to the best of my knowledge participated in any gang fights yet, although that may be because I’m a lousy dancer...
My Swiss army knife is not a switch blade knife... but some nutty police officer thinks I shouldn’t be carrying it around.
What’s offensive is of course, in the eye of the beholder.
And any sort of offensive arm would be covered: swords, maces, bayonets, firearms of all types, etc. Arguably, body armor and other defensive equipment would also be covered.
I have a suspicion that most knife laws were put into place simply to give the police a reason to arrest citizens and have nothing to do with public safety.
Some are working hard to get those BS laws overturned.
/johnny
All switchblade knives should be limited to ten round magazines.
Knife.....I have sword cane and I can’t take it out of storage W/O being apt to arrest.
Yep.....here in Georgia, the Weapons Carry License also covers knives....
I am 100% in support of repealing these stupid laws that are an affront to the 2nd amendment.
From the article the knife was illegal in Baltimore, and the arrest was legal. If Baltimore’s knife law was not there, Gray would probably not been arrested because of the knife.
Of course, Gray could have been arrested for twitching his nose in violation of a made-up Baltimore’s nose law. But then he could sue for false arrest.
Yes, the arrest was legal because the police only need to believe you are breaking the law. The chore of determining if you are guilty lies with a jury. But that doesn’t address the problem with the law being so vague as to give officers wide discrepancy to make arrests.
I’m 70 years old and attended school in rural Texas, God Bless Texas. In those day every boy carried a knife as a working tool. Anyway, one day, I think I was in the 3rd grade, another boy and I were playing “stretch” with our knives. Loser forfeits his knife. Teacher spotted us and came over and took our knives and marched us inside. After explaining what we were doing, to no avail I may add, busted both of our britches - for gambling. Different time, different world. God Bless Texas. Did I already mention that?
Which is EXACTLY why switchblades were banned: fear of Mexicans generated by that stupid play, "West Side Story".
John T. Williams, an Indian woodcarver in Seattle, was gunned down by a cop. His crime was carving a block of cedar while crossing the street. The criminal cop Ian Birk came up behind him, didn’t identify himself as a cop and shot Williams four times, killing Williams. Simply for having a knife and whittling the cedar block. City paid out $1.5 million while not jailing the cop, who resigned and is walking around free after murdering an innocent man.
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