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Well, guess we're going to have to disagree on some of this.
Before I go any farther, I'd sure like for any LEOs to chime in here, and express what their reaction would be to a fantasy knife -- the first they've ever seen -- that has been used to commit an assault on themselves. Yes, I know that many police are behind the pressure to remove weapons from civilians. But many others are open-minded forumites who are genuine knife knuts also. Or, for that matter, anyone who can remember their first glimpse of a multi-bladed, multi-pointed fantasy knife. I can clearly remember that my response was, "What in the hell is that? What could you possibly do with it?"
We all have different tastes in art or "art". For instance, I do not get excited by black velvet paintings of Elvis. They do not qualify within my definition of art.
I believe that if there are going to be any fights which the knife world becomes involved in, that those fights need to be carefully chosen. In this instance, particularly since the language used by the media allegedly came from LEOs, the characterization of a fantasy knife as an assault knife seems perfectly logical to me. Like it or not, the media is going to rely on the word of police when it comes to describing weapons with which they are not familiar. I don't think that a knife advocate striving to make them understand that an assault weapon -- remember it was used to assault several people including LEOs -- isn't actually a weapon, but is just a plain, everyday tool for cutting is likely to succeed. I am totally unable to see this minor incident as proof of any large scale conspiracy against knives being owned by individuals. When such situations arise, I believe that as many of us as possible should do whatever is realistically helpful. But, I remember a recent thread involving something legal about knives. The suggestion that AKTI or individuals get involved was answered with many posts counseling that any action would bring negative attention on knives and that we should lay as low as possible.
Oh -- one last thing, I knew a woman once who was stabbed 52 times with an icepick and survived it. I don't have that much faith in them as weapons.
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Before I go any farther, I'd sure like for any LEOs to chime in here, and express what their reaction would be to a fantasy knife -- the first they've ever seen -- that has been used to commit an assault on themselves. Yes, I know that many police are behind the pressure to remove weapons from civilians. But many others are open-minded forumites who are genuine knife knuts also. Or, for that matter, anyone who can remember their first glimpse of a multi-bladed, multi-pointed fantasy knife. I can clearly remember that my response was, "What in the hell is that? What could you possibly do with it?"
We all have different tastes in art or "art". For instance, I do not get excited by black velvet paintings of Elvis. They do not qualify within my definition of art.
I believe that if there are going to be any fights which the knife world becomes involved in, that those fights need to be carefully chosen. In this instance, particularly since the language used by the media allegedly came from LEOs, the characterization of a fantasy knife as an assault knife seems perfectly logical to me. Like it or not, the media is going to rely on the word of police when it comes to describing weapons with which they are not familiar. I don't think that a knife advocate striving to make them understand that an assault weapon -- remember it was used to assault several people including LEOs -- isn't actually a weapon, but is just a plain, everyday tool for cutting is likely to succeed. I am totally unable to see this minor incident as proof of any large scale conspiracy against knives being owned by individuals. When such situations arise, I believe that as many of us as possible should do whatever is realistically helpful. But, I remember a recent thread involving something legal about knives. The suggestion that AKTI or individuals get involved was answered with many posts counseling that any action would bring negative attention on knives and that we should lay as low as possible.
Oh -- one last thing, I knew a woman once who was stabbed 52 times with an icepick and survived it. I don't have that much faith in them as weapons.
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Asi es la vida
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