Do you live in a city/town where knives are banned?

MFShirley said:
I refuse to let a beaurocrat tell me I cant defend myself.
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The bureaucrats mean well, they are just trying to protect the majority of voters. Simple logic. Someone was hurt with a knife. If the perp didn't have a knife, it wouldn't have happened; so ban the carry of knives. What evades both the politician and the voter is that the perp if he is willing to hurt someone with a knife he certainly is not afraid of the no carry law and can get a knife. He also is emboldened by the fact that the law has disarmed his victim. My knife is a tool but I don't mind the fact that a would be attacker knows I might have/use it. I am not a hazard to anyone by carrying it.

I think it unfortunate that this country is rapidly following others into a passive defense strategy both as a nation and as an individual. Cover up, run, dial 911. What is happening to fight back? An armed society is a polite society. How many accidental gun deaths could we tolerate to compensate for the deaths as a result of 9-11. If there were 4 or 5 legal, concealed guns on board, I doubt any of it would have happened. I'll go further and say I doubt it would have been tried, maybe not even considered.

And enough about the majority wanting stricter gun laws for, as we know, a pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. The older I get the more I admire the constitution and fear what is happening to it.
 
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thank god I have never lived up north. the way you people talk you dont have any rights. I live in florida. switchblades are legal to carry with out a permit.
 
@mal2..Thats how it happend in my city. Someone was stabbed as a result of gang violence in the local high school so they banned knives.what I don't understand is why they banned knives, the person was stabbed with a sharpend screwdriver. Wheres the logic in that?
 
Richard, to be honest im moving further north to New Hampshire where there are no knife laws and some of the best gun laws in the country. Live. Free Or Die
 
MFShirley said:
@mal2..Thats how it happend in my city. Someone was stabbed as a result of gang violence in the local high school so they banned knives.what I don't understand is why they banned knives, the person was stabbed with a sharpend screwdriver. Wheres the logic in that?
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Stabbed = knife. Banning knives= the perception of taking corrective action = votes. Bad motives and faulty logic to a T......
 
I dont mean to offend anyone but it seems like the states with liberals at the helm have the most draconian laws concerning "weapons".
 
MFShirley said:
I dont mean to offend anyone but it seems like the states with liberals at the helm have the most draconian laws concerning "weapons".
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Couldn't offend anyone, just a fact. The liberals would only argue the word "draconian". To them it's logical and reasonable. To me illogical and unconstitutional; therefore illegal.
 
MFShirley said:
I dont mean to offend anyone but it seems like the states with liberals at the helm have the most draconian laws concerning "weapons".
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I would also ask that people look at the which political party runs the states and cities with the most violent crime. Cities like D.C., Chicago, Philidelphia, L.A. . Care to take a guess which party dominates in those places?
 
thallium said:
I would also ask that people look at the which political party runs the states and cities with the most violent crime. Cities like D.C., Chicago, Philidelphia, L.A. . Care to take a guess which party dominates in those places?
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That is their main excuse for why they do it. Cause & effect?
 
MFShirley said:
I dont mean to offend anyone but it seems like the states with liberals at the helm have the most draconian laws concerning "weapons".
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more so larger cities, with dense populations. take bloomberg in nyc....a republican or is it an independent now??:confused: hates guns and knives. allot of big city politicians love to disarm/untool honest law abiding americans. even down here in the south.

mwhich50

In Florida I believe they are trying to legislate uniformity in knife and guns laws throughout the state.
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guns are already done. one set of laws in the state. doesn't mean some cities dont follow the law though. a few have openly said they wouldn't change, but were forced to by legal threats by florida carry. they forgot about knives....last i heard knife rights was working on trying to get this done.
 
jbmonkey said:
more so larger cities, with dense populations. take bloomberg in nyc....a republican or is it an independent now??:confused: hates guns and knives. allot of big city politicians love to disarm/untool honest law abiding americans. even down here in the south.



guns are already done. one set of laws in the state. doesn't mean some cities dont follow the law though. a few have openly said they wouldn't change, but were forced to by legal threats by florida carry. they forgot about knives....last i heard knife rights was working on trying to get this done.
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around 10 years ago there was a big conflict about switchblades. people that had gun permits where getting put in jail over a knife that they where carrying. The took away the 4 laws that conflict them self’s and voted in a new law that allows switchblades to be carried with out a permit. Dade county made switchblades in there county illegal but if you have the weapons permit they cant stop you from having one.
 
In Philadelphia PA anyone with a clean record can get a concealed carry permit that applies to firearms only. Conversely, all edged tools are totally illegal to carry unless it's part of your job and you are on the job at the time. So a person could be legally carrying a 1911 .45 concealed, but for that person to carry a box of kitchen knives he/she just bought from the parking garage to his/her house would be illegal.
 
I think Australia is like that as well.

In SA is mostly subject to the cops as far as your intention of carrying.
Generally here if you polite to them and don't look like you'll be a problem, they're cool.
 
Living in the big apple knive laws are pretty much restiricting everything but a swiss army knife and even at that it cant be showing!..

Its laughable really... they can confiscate your knife and give you a summons to show up in court just because they could see a little part of your SAK.. itsSO sad...

I carry pretty much anything I want to be honest, although I am weary of carrying any type of auto outside the house.. i figure any other knife except an auto and you have a chance... as small as it might be l0l
 
There are laws on blade length and knife types in the Netherlands, but in general you don't need to worry much. I live in the rural north and knives are not really an issue here.
 
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