Knife discrimination

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Sounds like my mother in law. She saw one of my ZTs a few years ago and said “what do you use that for besides stabbing someone?”

Yikes.
 
herisson said:
I understand the points several people have made but I don't get how a law (which applies to everybody, right ?) could target an ethnic group. Everybody uses knives (any sort of), so... everybody is impacted. Because, wait for it... drumroll... the law applies to all.
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Ok, let me preface this by saying - I am not a liberal, not by a long shot. I think the race card gets played way too much and that it is typically a "B" move. However, while laws DO apply equally to every race, they do not IMPACT every race equally and the people who write them know this.

Imagine black reps writing a bill against any militia membership. While we DO have a black guy on our group, it would be fairly obvious who this law was directed at.

Stereotypes originate from actual habits or practices. Which is why I (jokingly) said Imagine a law against cheese. That would be obviously aimed at white folks.

Opium laws were anti Chinese in origins.

Legislation can also be used to target specific religions. For example, if this country was fairly equally divided between Jews, Christians, and Muslims and legislation was proposed, banning pork products, PURELY for public health concerns...... come on, that wouldn't be obvious? The courts can be used as weapons, just the way it is :(
 
Do you think that there wouldn't be any consequences to your proposal: if it came to be?
There certainly are knife laws that I don't like, and some that I simply ignore...
But I do that with full knowledge of what the consequences could be...
 
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Bob Denman said:
Do you think that there wouldn't be any consequences to your proposal?
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In all the time I have been a cop, I have never seen a "law" stop anyone from doing what they were compelled to do. We got laws against meth, I've seized plenty of it. Laws against rape, I've worked several. I've seen MULTIPLE restraining orders ignored. People routinely hurt each other, with disregard to whether or not it is "legal" and we should worry about what type of knife they have?!?! I don't.

Laws do not stop crime, force does.

Actions effect others, possessions don't. The gun in your trunk shouldnt be my concern, the one you aim at me should be.

And if you think there would be consequences to having too much liberty, are you not concerned about the consequences of too much tyranny?
 
If I may make a guess as to Bob's point, it might be something to do with the more accessible that laws (or the lack thereof) make something, the more often and easily it will find its way into the hands of bad actors. So balanced laws that limit accessibility as much as possible to the law abiding and from criminals is perhaps what he is advocating rather than no laws at all.

Bob, forgive me if I am off base, as I said it was a guess.
 
I respectfully disagree. Laws DO stop lawlessness to a point. But it can't eliminate it.
That would require convincing everybody that obeying the law is a good idea.

And that ain't happenin'!
 
David Mary said:
If I may make a guess as to Bob's point, it might be something to do with the more accessible that laws (or the lack thereof) make something, the more often and easily it will find its way into the hands of bad actors. So balanced laws that limit accessibility as much as possible to the law abiding and from criminals is perhaps what he is advocating rather than no laws at all.

Bob, forgive me if I am off base, as I said it was a guess.
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You said it far better than I could have.
Thank you!
 
It's a pretty limited view of law that boils it down to "make this or that illegal and then this or that will happen less". Laws that give incentive or disincentive to enterprise and trade (through taxation, for example) will have a huge impact on what people can or cannot get their hands on.
 
Everyone has sufficiently covered the appropriate disbelief and corresponding comments, to which I can’t add much, but I will say one thing in defense of the OP’s misinformed, derpy anti-knife person: it’s hard to casually deploy an OTF auto. Even Shirley Temple would look like she’s gonna cut a sucker. That said, carry ‘um if you want to, because I don’t think that person has spent enough time learning about knives to have a respectable opinion.

Off topic: Wasn’t there a movie where the protagonist coached a sailor via radio through slitting a bad guys throat with his SAK to save the ship… or was it a submarine? D Danke42 , you know the one I’m talking about? Might have had Steven Seagal in it, but it wasn’t “Under Siege”.
 
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