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It's not so much liberalism as it is authoritarianism, you know? The Original Guardfather back in the 1980s, production was shut down by a conservative, someone who would become an ultra-conservative Congressman from Georgia, Bob Barr. He considered a spike a "blade" and declared it a Switchblade.
Authoritarianism is the main problem and you can find that in both parties and all political ideologies.
Perhaps the birthplace of political correctness would be more appropriate , at any rate this guy vance is a toad.
Tostig
Yeah, he is a toad. No doubt.
I live in Maryland. It's fairly stupid here, to say the least.
California?
There are a few thousand people up there that make sense, you are one of them.
I cannot figure that place out anymore than I can figure Baltimore City out. I guess that's because the same mindset is running both of them.
I have the misfortune of having to travel through NYC next weekend. I'll be taking my case peanut and Vic classic. Buried very deeply in my pockets.
Say what? Isn't that just playing with words now? The knives were never designed to be opened in that manner, and quite frankly I feel that one would risk dropping the knife on their foot if they tried it.Yes, extortion/blackmail, whatever you wish to call it is illegal. But our society as a whole has become to lenient and carefree about being oppressed by morons like Vance.
its because they do the "spydie drop" to "gravity open" these knives (they hold the blade, and flick the handle really hard to justify them as gravity blades). Theres a link to a video somewhere on the BF that showed them doing that.
The real problem is that the public doesn't have any interest in Vance's justifications. For the average "Joe Sixpack" on the street in NYC, he just goes about his daily business, blissfully unaware that the Spyderco, Cold Steel, Kershaw, Benchmade, CRKT, etc. folder that he EDC's in his pocket could get him a criminal record. Most people are not knife (or gun) enthusiasts and don't follow the laws or how they are interpreted by the courts. The only time it becomes an issue for them is when they are caught and charged.Say what? Isn't that just playing with words now? The knives were never designed to be opened in that manner, and quite frankly I feel that one would risk dropping the knife on their foot if they tried it.
And couldn't you do that with a SAK if you tried hard enough and had a good enough grip on the blade?
If he was trying to show how "dangerous" the knives were, he failed miserably. If he were trying to fulfill the definition of "gravity knife" in the loosest possible sense, he succeeded. It's like saying that a dog chewing off your balls is technically foreplay. I wonder just how stupid the public would have to be in order to accept his justifications?
I'm definitely thinking that KnifeRights needs to get some air time on the nightly news in order to "educate" people as to what this guy is actually doing.
But under agreements reached with the district attorneys office, seven of the stores removed illegal knives from their shelves, agreed to forfeit profits they made from selling those knives over the past four years and agreed to finance a campaign to educate the public about illegal knives, Mr. Vance said. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to bring criminal charges against the companies.
with gravity knives, the blades come out by a simple flick of the wrist
The dangerous knife charge has to be arrived at by design of the knife for sole use as a weapon, and or the statements made by the person carrying it. An officer who is seeking to charge someone this way by making you state you carry the knife for "self defense", will ask you questions leading you to perhaps say a simple yes to a question asking if you carry it as a weapon. Becareful how you answer in NY. A knife is a tool, never a weapon in NY, or prepare to be cahrged.