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Jim,
I don't know if it is such a good idea to gather every knife that can be snapped. I think if you go in there to try to prove that all knives can be snapped open, that you might just push them over the edge.
If you show them that every folder with some form of device can be snapped or otherwise quickly opened, I think that is playing into their hands...
I think a different approach is in order.
You take a common kitchen knife, butcher knife, carpet knife with retractable blade, boxcutter, screwdrivers...all of these...
Obtain a small TV/VCR Combo, don't count on them having this device, and a copy of "Surviving Edged Weapons."
Before you go, cue up the areas where the tape discusses the screwdriver being the second most common weapon for "civilian homicide." And you go through that and collect the tidbits you need to show that folding knives, by and large, are not the problem...
Take carboard and duct tape and make "sheaths" so the kitchen and butcher knife can be carried inside the waistband, which is how most criminals will carry them...
And focus on all of these implements that are actually used to kill people.
I don't know if it is such a good idea to gather every knife that can be snapped. I think if you go in there to try to prove that all knives can be snapped open, that you might just push them over the edge.
If you show them that every folder with some form of device can be snapped or otherwise quickly opened, I think that is playing into their hands...
I think a different approach is in order.
You take a common kitchen knife, butcher knife, carpet knife with retractable blade, boxcutter, screwdrivers...all of these...
Obtain a small TV/VCR Combo, don't count on them having this device, and a copy of "Surviving Edged Weapons."
Before you go, cue up the areas where the tape discusses the screwdriver being the second most common weapon for "civilian homicide." And you go through that and collect the tidbits you need to show that folding knives, by and large, are not the problem...
Take carboard and duct tape and make "sheaths" so the kitchen and butcher knife can be carried inside the waistband, which is how most criminals will carry them...
And focus on all of these implements that are actually used to kill people.