What is it with the media and Buck Knives?

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Another news article using the image of a Buck HUNTING knife as a weapon to sensationalize their story. :mad: :rolleyes:

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I dont know why. Kinda sucks they plaster that image like that though.
 
The "main streem" media and Hollywood have been villinizing knives and firearms for decades. They try to put the blame on the knife or firearm, rather than the person who committed a crime.
As Chuck Connors once said in an episode of 'THE RIFLEMAN':
"No gun ever triggered itself."
The media and Hollywood's goal (and far left wing politicals) is to make the average person fear an inanimate object, and anyone who has one, so they can get knives and firearms banned.
 
Not a great image for the Buck 119. Like crime such as killings etc didn't ever happen before firearms and knives were invented. If there were no firearms people would be killing each other with knives. Take away all knives and people will be killing each other with arrows and spears. Nothing anyone can do will ever end it.
 
Unfortunately blood, fires, floods and other spectacular events are what sell for local news. That looks like a stock photo. At least they didn't show the word Buck.

Bert
 
Why the 119 "Special"? If they're going to use that one, use the brass and cocobolo...

Better yet; they should have images of the "Punk", "Thug", and "Hoodlum" just for this occasion...
 
They should use images of the knives that are most often used in these types of crimes... steak knife, paring knife, butcher knife.. and all sorts of other kitchen cutlery. Not often do you see a knife enthusiast or the like involved in a knife fight in the city at midnight with one of his favored blades.
 
bloody_pawprint said:
They should use images of the knives that are most often used in these types of crimes... steak knife, paring knife, butcher knife.. and all sorts of other kitchen cutlery.
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How about just using a photo of the perpetrator.
 
Ah, you gotta love The Onion for making a parody of today's sensationalism driven world. OH
 
cause its a very well known knife likely. whether a hunter/outdoorsman who uses it, or someone who watches hollywood movies like scream. almost everyone knows that knife.


what i find odd is the medias attention to then tool rather than the evil person who did it. who cares whether someone is attacked and killed with which tool. whether its a rock, ar15, knife or feet and fists...dead is dead. what matters is why this person did it and how to stop violent people from wanting to harm and kill people...not the tools. as they will use whatever is nearby as weve seen in the uk...no guns its knives. no knives its kitchen knives. no kitchen knives its glass beer mugs. ban glass mugs they use the rocks in the planters and on and on. violent crime rate stays the same or goes up cause the energy is in knee jerking and not really attacking the real problem. cant fix stupid, so be it.

the stats and studies show violence doesnt go down with tool banning only attacks and kills with that banned tool. which is kinda silly since the goal should be to slow and stop the violent crimes regardless of which tool is used. who cares which tool is used? the media and i guess its readers? way into politics now....sorry i digress.....
 
TAH said:
Another news article using the image of a Buck HUNTING knife as a weapon to sensationalize their story. :mad: :rolleyes:

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Maybe they read this post and concluded the 119 was a fighting knife? 😉


TAH said:
I'll bet the soldiers carrying a 110 were also carrying a 119. :)


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jbmonkey said:
the stats and studies show violence doesnt go down with tool banning only attacks and kills with that banned tool. which is kinda silly since the goal should be to slow and stop the violent crimes regardless of which tool is used. who cares which tool is used? the media and i guess its readers? way into politics now....sorry i digress.....
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This is close to my understanding but not entirely.

The type of tool matters because while the rate of violence remains the same, the choice of tools changes the lethality of the attack. This is why we send soldiers into combat with M16s, not M1s. Modern assualt rifles are more lethal than older battle rifles in the context of urban combat.

Many states and localities use the 3" blade length as the tipping point between tool and more lethal stabbing weapon. Remember, that how we got the Ranger after the stabbing with a 110 on the ship with the same name.

The Bowie knife is the American template for the fighting utility knife and the 119 is made in that style. That's why it sells so well (really, how many of us use it to hunt with compared to something in the 110/112 size range?) and that's why it gets used in rhese news stories. Victim of its own success.
 
I think the "liberals" (real liberals are libertarians) are worried that someone will shoot someone and kill them too easily barely putting any effort into it. They theorizenthat most people would be too lazy to kill if not for firearms.

(Humour ^^)
 
pinnah said:
This is close to my understanding but not entirely.

The type of tool matters because while the rate of violence remains the same, the choice of tools changes the lethality of the attack. This is why we send soldiers into combat with M16s, not M1s. Modern assualt rifles are more lethal than older battle rifles in the context of urban combat.

Many states and localities use the 3" blade length as the tipping point between tool and more lethal stabbing weapon. Remember, that how we got the Ranger after the stabbing with a 110 on the ship with the same name.

The Bowie knife is the American template for the fighting utility knife and the 119 is made in that style. That's why it sells so well (really, how many of us use it to hunt with compared to something in the 110/112 size range?) and that's why it gets used in rhese news stories. Victim of its own success.
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fair points. lethailty going down is a good thing but still is bad to be a victim of an attack regardless of tool used cause policies focused on the wrong things. banning tools rather than focusing on how to slow and stop violence and attacks. so be it.
 
jbmonkey said:
fair points. lethailty going down is a good thing but still is bad to be a victim of an attack regardless of tool used cause policies focused on the wrong things. banning tools rather than focusing on how to slow and stop violence and attacks. so be it.
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There are both cultural-poltics reasons, and politically correct reasons, why the media focus lands on the tool, not the person. But elaborating on txhis will take us into thread-drift. Let's just leave it that non-knife people who have, um, an axe to grind have their reasons for demonizing knives and suchlike.
 
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