Just my opinion

Bayou Lafourche · Mar 4, 2001

Man sets house on fire killing 5 with a match, Government is going to ban all matches and lighters, Or
to buy a box of matches you going to have to fill out a form and run a background check. You know
this is getting ridiculous about all the knives and guns that have been used in crime as murder weapons.
I wonder what going to happen when some kid walks in a school and kills his teacher with a baseball
bat, that's simple lets just band all baseball bats so our kids won't be able to play ball any more.

You know is no difference between a automatic knife or a one hand opener, Yet the Automatic is outlawed
in most states. Or what the blade size that some states outlaw has to do with the knife, you can kill someone
with a 2" blade if that person what's to. But I have never known a knife or gun to kill someone by itself.
When is our Government and our state's going to realize that instead of gun or knife control.
We need people control

I would just like to known what's the big deal on automatic that make's the state's outlaw them,
I think it's just a stupid law that was started back in the 50's when the Movie (The West Side Story )
came out. That's need to be changed. Which if I believe was referring the the old Stiletto type
switchblade that came straight out the front and not the side like our automatic today.

Of coarse if they we ever get to that point that guns and knives are outlawed and I really wonder how
their going to control it anyway, hell they can't even control the Drug's in this country.

Just my opinion

Roger

Bugs3x · Mar 4, 2001

Just read 3 of FBI profiler John Douglas' books. One of most gruesome murders he discusses committed with "tree branch". No mention made of laws about trees, removing branches, or anything.

Am not sure, but believe that in most states Vehicular Homicide treated as far less serious than most other ways to off folks. Certainly no moves afoot, of which I've heard, to ban autos.

redratsnake · Mar 4, 2001

Way to go Roger i feel the same way this is out of control i am sure somewere there is some talk about banning the sale of knives on the internet how come i ca go to the store any department in the country and buy a knife 12" long sharp as can be able to rip through a body like nothing just cause it says kitchen knife on it ? but don,t get caught holding a folder that is more than 4" i just don,t get it you can buy a auto if your in the army well i was in the army i never had an auto but if i did was i supose to sell it when i got out ?? do you turn into a differant person when you are not in the army lol i just carry what i want i stay out of trouble and i keep my mouth shut seems like the only way to keep what i have IT,S SAD

Keith Montgomery · Mar 4, 2001

As has been said thousands of times, people kill people and once knives are outlawed another weapon will be found to replace the knife or gun. We will not stop the killing by banning knives and we will lose an invaluable tool, and something that I think has great beauty.

Keith.

Tractrix · Mar 4, 2001

It is a peeve of mine that there is no effort to prune the tangled mess of contradictory and ill considered laws that have been passed by opportunistic politicians over the years. I can think of no more valuable service to the country than to simplify and rationalize our crime laws. It would probably save billions of dollars, and at least in my case, it would dramatically increase respect for politicians, justice, and law enforcement.

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redvenom · Mar 4, 2001

The ban doesn't even affect criminals - they are already outside the law anyway and could care hardly less.

My country has some of the stiffest laws concerning firearms (10 years jailtime for illegal possession) but armed crime is still common enough to make the papers just about every day.

Red

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Paul Work · Mar 5, 2001

As I've said before, you could be beaten to death with your computer keyboard. For the most part, if it can be picked up, it could be used as a weopon.

Paul

Jason Burns · Mar 5, 2001

Roger,
Your "opinion" is dead on! Unfortunately, the impact of legislation on weapons/tools is just a symptom of a larger problem. Our society has taken a HUGE turn toward removing consequences for individual behavior. We don't like to think that our actions carry REAL consequences and therefore we allow "government" to "protect" us from ourselves. You can go to other countries where there is no government controlled "social welfare" and people understand that if they don't work - they don't eat, if they harm someone else - they will be harmed. Ours is the greatest country on the planet but in our desire to elevate the individual we have tried to insulate him from consequence . . . cannot be done!! I believe Paul said it well in Gal 6:7 "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, whatever a man sows - that he will also reap." Consequence is a reall part of life and when we support a governmental effort to take it away in ANY form . . . we open the door to them trying to take it away in EVERY form!
Sorry for the "sermon" but we've just got to accept that our increasingly litigious society is opening a "pandoras box" for government to "protect us from ourselves."
Forums such as this remind us of the MANY opportunities that guys like us have to make a difference!

FullerH · Mar 6, 2001

Roger, the problem is that there was a movie back in the mod-1950s called "Blackboard Jungle" that featured those cheap Italian "stiletto" switchblades in very negative roles. This was followed by a series of teen exploitation flicks made to be shown in the drive-in theaters where the teens went in droves. But adults also went, unfortunately, and they saw these films also. There arose a huge demand to "do something about this horrible weapon that was about to end society as we knew it", remember that this was Ike's 1950s. So the politicians rose courageously to the challenge and we got the 1958 ban on switchblades as a result of a media-created panic. I have heard some blame the Leonard Bernstein's modern opera "West Side Story" for the ban, but it did not appear on the national scene until well after the ban was already law. No, if you want to blame anything, blame "Blackboard Jungle" and the teen exploitation flicks that followed it. By the way, it, in and of itself, is not a bad movie. The irony of it is that to undo the law, we have to undo a generation of images of "joo-venn-iile deee-liin-kwents" with them switchblade knives terrorizin' us innocent peepuls'. Meanwhile, the realities, largely as a result of well-intentioned but stupid laws passed over the years, is packs of lawless punks running loose, armed with some of the latest in weaponry, while we the , more or less, law-abiding people are being progressively disarmed.

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Bronco · Mar 5, 2001

Well, it looks like it's time to circle the wagons once again. Appears as though some maladjusted teenager just shot up his high school this morning near San Diego.

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