we need to educate people about storing knives in a locked box

Sorry to beat you to it Strider. I read it over breakfast. God bless the Commonwealth.
 
Most homicides are not planned, they are assaults where some idiot grabbed a deadly weapon. This most commonly happens when the assailant has been drinking or taking drugs and is impared. It also commonly is done by people who make a habit of violent outbursts of temper. The best defense is to stay away from bars and violent drunks.

If you move knives out of reach the assailants will simply grab the next likely weapon--screwdriver, bottle, brick, stick, or rock. People have been grabbing weapons since before the discovery of metals. Knives are not sufficiently more deadly than blunt instruments that they require special regulation.
 
And if I may piggy back on Mr. Clark's post, it is highly unusual for a homicide to be a perp's first violent criminal act.

Generally killers have long histories of violent law breaking, and they are often on parole or probation when the do their killing. Keep violent criminals locked in a box not knives, guns, hammers, ropes, sharpened pencils.....you get the idea.

 
10-5K: and to piggy back on yours, ditto for domestic abuse, (We do remember O.J.don''t we?)

"Crimes of passion" sounds too cool and romantic. . .
 
Swede79 got it right, quote<"Ah guys, the hypocrites are scrambling - they have to, or else admit they were wrong about guns - which they will never do.">
They do get silly nowadays, don't they? I kinda figger I live in a big locked box I call my house- weapons all around me.
Years ago while I was working my way thru school as a bartender I saw a guy stabbed in the neck by his girlfriend. She use a Bic pen for that crime of passion.
 
I go to several stabbings a year.When the knife was still present its almost always been a kitchen knife,other times we will ask the victim(if he can still speak)what kind,size ect.again kitchen knives.I've also been inside many drug houses and found knives lying about,kitchen and sometimes pos knockoffs.Always kitchen or junk the only spydercos,benchmades,cold steels I see are clipped on my fellow firefighters and policemans pockets(2 or 3 on me alone)
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Knife not much use in a box. Bury me in a box, have knife to hand...

Kitchen knives are the real killers!

W.A.

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Um, why do I live in MA again? I dunno...how are the knife laws in PA? any better(they couldn't be worse....i hope).

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Blackwatch, I've never had problems with the laws in PA. Autos are illegal of course, but besides that I think most anything goes, at least by state law. I'm sure the individual cities are different though.
 
I keep my knives in either a locked BladeForum Knife bag or a Sentry FireSafe
NOT because of a fear of becoming enraged and in the moment it takes to find the key and open either storage implement - calming down, but because I have a THREE YEAR OLD son.
If I found myself in a fit of rage, I would probably pick up the safe and crush my tormentor! Blame it on knives, guns, electric cords, etc. We in Colorado have a growing problem with road rage. Let's lock the cars up and take public transit. Hope there isn't any local politicos reading this!!!
John
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Then again, you may want to worry more when I'm perfectly calm than when in the state of rage and passion.
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A day without Spydies is like a day without ... WELL, Spydies!!!
 
Living here in Bangkok, everyone has a knife on the street. All the food vendors (and anyone who's been here has seen them lined up by the hundreds) have knives, the fruit vendors have machetes-what better to skin fruit?
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Probably the two dealiest items here are motorcycles and elephants and yes sometimes even they run into each other. Believe me it aint the knives, its the people.

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You will never convince the average Leftist/Collectivist/Gun banner/anti-knifer that inanimate objects have no volition. The weak-minded take comfort in restricting the freedom of others, for they (wrongly) believe this relieves them of the responsibility of looking out for themselves. The illusion of safety is far more important to these people than reality.

A note to the lurkers and those few Lefties we have wandering about here: if you do not believe individuals have the right to arm themselves for their defense, you are wrong. This is a knife forum. Collectivists and tool-banners need not apply.

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The most amazing homicide I ever heard of happened a few years ago. Seems a man drowned his wife in a mop bucket. Didn't see it myself, but it conjures up some rather vivid images. Ever since them, I get a little nervous ever time I see someone pushing around this kind of weapon. I don't let my kids visit anyone's home where a mop bucket is present. I have thought about forming a "mop bucket control" group to influence legislation......
 
I can not contain my knives. They are everywhere. I have knives in every drawer, on every dresser, on every shelf. I love being surrounded by knives. My guns are kept in drawers, out of sight. But the knives must be exposed. If I have to lock all my knives in a box, I would sell them all and lock up the ones that were left to me by relatives.

I can not lock up my knives.

I do not have children in the house.

 
I have had guns and knives and children all at the same time and same place the kids knew better then to touch either. You must teach them even if it takes a smack? Opp did I say to correct a kid with a smack shame on me, God forbid. See anything wrong with the youth of today.

I will not lock either of my guns or knives up they are in my room and no one is aloud in my room.That is locked up enough.
 
I am STRICTLY in favor of putting sheeple into locked boxes.
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I just can't understand how these horrible stabbings could have occurred in Massachussetes. There it is illegal to carry a knife over 3 inches concealed. Isn't that law there to protect the public from this kind of violence? Shouldn't people be able to expect to be safe since there is anti-weapon legislation there to protect them? I just don't understand...

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There was one interesting statistic that came to light before the Brady Bill took effect.

In half of the States in the US (25), it was legal to walk into a store, buy a gun, holster, and ammo, walk out, load it, strap it on your hip, and walk down the street.

80% of the gun-related homicides in the US were commited in the other 25 states.

Hmmmm....
 
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I just can't understand how these horrible stabbings could have occurred in Massachussetes. There it is illegal to carry a knife over 3 inches concealed.
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Maybe they were just walking down the street with a large, unconcealed knife....I mean, that WOULD be legal...lol.



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