What I was saying is when people hear about someone stabbing someone, they begin to think "people just shouldn't have knives".
So the idiot that went out and stabbed someone just shows that knives are dangerous and can be used as a weapon. The person hearing about this realizes that people use these things as weapons starts to think about it and wonder if we should just ban all of the weapon-like tools(of course not kitchen knives, hammers, chainsaws, rope, scissors, etc.).
When in this mind-set that tools have become weapons people start to assume that everyone that has these things or carries them has the intent of them being or becoming a weapon.
Everyone I meet freaks out at first that I carry a knife because they think it's a weapon. Then they say "Oh you carry it for self defense", I just shake my head.
If no idiots had gone out in the first place and used tools as weapons to inflict harm upon another human being, we would likely not have a bunch of people in the mindset of these tools being weapons. It's ridiculous. I agree that knives CAN be dangerous, when in the wrong hands. But truly it's just the person that's dangerous, not the knife. A knife is an inanimate object. It's not dangerous unless someone uses it in that way.
It's really ridiculous.
