Knife attack in Japan ...

It's called the Law of Unintendedn Consequences; ban Saturday Night Specials (sic) and the gang bangers go to large capacity military-style semi-autos, which the media calls autos. Limit the magazine capacity and the companies produce smaller sizrd pistols, since they no longer need to be so large to hold the 15-17 round magazines, and the media suddenly discover that there are now easily concealable handguns available that are considerably more lethal. If you ban them, the gangs will likely go to hunting rifles, cut down.

In Japan, there is a tradition of attacks with knives. I remember that the US ambassador was so attacked back in the 1950s and wasn't there an assassination attempt on a Prime Minister with one? So, a man going berserk with a kitchen knife should not surprise anyone. Japan is a society coming apart at the seams, as many news analyses will tell you, and we should probably expect more of this.

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KCAL (ch 9) in LA showed a picture of a double edge dagger to lead into the story. They could not demonize an ordinary kitchen knife. The media have to mislead the public in order to get their agenda passed. The media are no longer able to report the facts without showing their bias.
 
Fox 45 in Baltimore just reported it about 5 minutes ago, described it as a 6 inch Kitchen Knife and had a graphic of a Buck 110 opened up in the right hand corner of the screen...

See how it works?

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Some of my Knives and other neat things
 
I'm also disgusted with the media on events like these, however terrible they are. I've sat back and watched the OCK bomber get exactly what he wanted. Press, press and more press. Most of the Colorado news stations are beginning coverage of his execution sunday night! A day before he's even to die! The fact that they would even cover an execution on the news except to say "He's dead" is bad enough.

It makes the future very difficult to think about for anyone who loves knives. It would help if people would realize that we're not going to solve our problems by banning everything related to our problems.

Maybe we should ban reproduction. 115 years MAX and all our problems would disappear.
 
My local paper failed to describe the knife used other than to say it had a 6" blade. Feel a bit embarrassed, I guess, because I said to my wife that I hoped it would prove to be a kitchen knife.

I think that the fact this yo-yo crawled in a window to get at the kids, plus his use of a kitchen utensil, may prevent any particularly goofy political repercussions. I don't think there is a damn thing we can do about a media which seeks to make and interpret news as much or more than they report it. In Japan, a culture that has elevated the blade to a status similar to our own reverence for the gun, I doubt it will become anything political.

I did almost laugh at the CNN article which talked of the "surge" of such crimes recently, then managed to say there had been one each year the past 2 years. If that's a surge, I'd sure hate to see samo-samo.

About the situation in California, the speed with which hoodlums can activate a knife against police officers as being the reason behind the attempts to change the laws about one-hand openers is so much BS. I agree with whomever posted about the effort actually being an effort to get convictions that the law has prevented in the past. My state, in 1984, passed a sentencing reform law that removed virtually all of the discretion in sentencing from judges and the parole board, and gave it to the prosecutors. I think they, who are supposed to represent the people and the law are the bad guys in this.

Enuff.

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Lost for words. Sad news
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Like any senceless tragedy, this SUCKS! I will be interested to see how it plays out over there, and here as well. This is coming from someone that has fought tooth & nail for the Second Ammendment for over 10 years now! I don't know much about Japanesee culture, but it has always seemed to me that they have a fondness of knives. We have the same tradition with firearms, and knives as well, both protected by our God given rights(the Constitution). It's my great hope they will use some sence, and not blame the knife, but I doubt it. Reguardless, I see trouble on the horizon! RKBA!

[This message has been edited by Alan2112 (edited 06-09-2001).]
 
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