This Sucks!

ahh well i just emailed a local sports writer for the same paper... see fi we can have him counter this attack on knives, when it should be an attack on the criminals.... we'll see. he's a good guy and has covered knifemaking seminars in the area before. wish me luck
 
Didn't see any custom knife collectors named in that story. Maybe it's mostly criminals who commit crimes? Imagine that. The bad press definitely does suck though.
 
There you go Michael. In the military we call it Information Operations! If only we took to it as naturally as you do!
 
Whit said:
There you go Michael. In the military we call it Information Operations! If only we took to it as naturally as you do!
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Ryan... you know I used to do IO. I've been to conferences where certain pay grades argued for 2 hours over the graphics on a slide that was part of a presentation to EXPLAIN IO. ah well
 
I would like to point out that a citizen with a CCW and willingness to defend themselves would put an end to this type of crime rather quickly. Oh wait, this is up North... never mind. :rolleyes:
 
Post your comments to the story, don't just let it fly as is. I posted this in response:

The fact that knives are available is not the cause of increasing knife use in crime. The increase comes from stiffer penalties for being caught with a gun. People need to start realizing its not the gun or knife that is the problem, its the criminal that it using a tool to commit a crime that is the problem. Impose the same stiffer penalties for commiting a violent act with a knife and you will see other things being used to commit crimes, such as a hammer or a baseball bat.
Instead of crusading against the tool that was used, crusade against the criminal that is using it. Remove the criminal from society and the problem is solved. Removing a tool from society causes the criminal to resort to other means and causes an inconvienience to the rest of the law abiding people who would otherwise be able to use the tool for it's intended purpose.

Brad Anderson
 
I noticed the story did not establish an actual increase in knife-related crime. The police are seeing less gun-related crime, and that makes the few with knives stand out more. The writer also completely missed the overwhelming use of kitchen knives, preferring to scare the public with tales of the exotic (but generally less effective) knives they found.

I think this is a puff piece. He had nothing else happening that day, so he tossed off an easy story, a long drawn out cliche of a story, that really teaches us nothing except what his prejudices are.
 
he didn't really say that there should be tighter restrictions on knives. It didn't seem like news to me. Still bad for knife owners and makers.
 
Bad press indeed!! :eek::mad:

Now you need TWICE the write-up on the hammer-in to show the good side of knives!! :thumbup::thumbup: It's up to all of us to off-set the ignorance!!
 
People in that town should get trained with weapons and get CCW's ...... pistol>knife in most confrontations!!!!
 
Will is right. To offer a pleasant counterpoint to this BS, recently a local pizza delivery guy was the subject of an attempted robbery at gun point. But he had CCW, and put the offender in the hospital with a couple of holes in his belly. The police got on TV and said something to the effect, "You criminals should take note. You never know who's going to defend himself."
 
Wow! Crap like this gets me upset.:mad: Puff is right...this guy is blowing smoke!
Oh my god!....How can we save ourselves from ourselves?:confused:
You go Mike!....fight the good fight!
Mace
 
WOW I thought this was the issue, we should ban everything that can be used as a weapon.

On Feb. 1, a video rental store on Acushnet Avenue was robbed by a man who walked into the store, brandished a beer bottle at the cashier, and demanded money.
A month earlier, the same business, Movieland Store, had been robbed by another beer bottle-wielding man who walked into the store at night, held a beer bottle to the cashier, and stole an undetermined amount of cash.
In the past six months, that scene has played out dozens of times in SouthCoast communities of New Bedford, Dartmouth and Fairhaven.
Several convenience stores, retail businesses, food delivery drivers and people walking on the streets have been robbed by suspects armed with beer bottles. Descriptions of the suspects vary in age, race and ethnicity, but the common denominator has them all carrying beer bottles they easily concealed in their jackets or hooded sweatshirts.
The beer bottle-point robberies have usually ended when a victim hands over cash. Some would-be victims, including one pizza-delivery driver earlier this year who himself carried a beer bottle, have fought off their assailants, but that is a dangerous response.
The fatal April 4 clubbing outside of the Fairhaven Veterans of Foreign Wars post, which occurred after a brawl involving several young men, illustrates the inherent dangers in the fact that many people carry beer bottles on them; sometimes for protection, other times for sinister purposes.
 
sounds like a skewed point of veiw to me :jerkit:
I remember back in high school 2 kids got into a fight ouside of the local deli,one kid ran into the deli and came running out with a 10" chefs knife and stabbed the other kid fatally.That knife and every other one used in a crime are all tools used by criminals to get what they want,just the same way I use a wrench or a pair of pliers to earn a living.

Take away the guns and you get knife crimes,take away the knives and you get beaten to death,take away my freedom ,I dont think so.
 
I am glad to live in New Mexico where it is not illegal to carry a gun openly and you can also get CCW if you like. People trying to rob businesses with knives would tend to have a fairly short life expectancy.

Mass. being well on its way to being a disarmed state, may have to outlaw knives to protect IG and others from the bad guys.
 
The author is a sheeple asshat, period.

As others have said....the solution to knife-wielding thugs is .45 weilding civilians with the training to use them. If enough of us start ventilating enough of them, it might make some progress and if not, at least free us from having to share the same air as these losers.
 
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