Will it be knives next?

[YllwFvr]

I know we always say that if we take away guns it will just be something else used as a weapon. What will it be next? Knives?
Answer: Yes.
I was poking around on some UK sites and apparently knife crime is everywhere, and its seen as an epidemic.
Heres a few stories.
http://tinyurl.com/4qczbz
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8127174.stm
Make sure you read the comments! Most are from Brits, and many are outraged. You see a few people that seem to have some more common sense, and even a few americans, but most of the people are just amazing.


Here is another.
http://tinyurl.com/59eywl
In this one it says despite a reported drop in crime the country is in an uproar for harsher penalties and more police.
It will never end.
This just had me worked up and irritated with the media and the publics willingness to swallow anything and everything as 100% truth with no other side, and any information not in the article is not important or irrelevant.

[CommonHighrise]

These people are mad...Darwin is scary to watch in action.

[CHEMICAL]

I know we always say that if we take away guns it will just be something else used as a weapon. What will it be next? Knives?
Answer: Yes.
I was poking around on some UK sites and apparently knife crime is everywhere, and its seen as an epidemic.
Heres a few stories.
http://tinyurl.com/4qczbz
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8127174.stm
Make sure you read the comments! Most are from Brits, and many are outraged. You see a few people that seem to have some more common sense, and even a few americans, but most of the people are just amazing.


Here is another.
http://tinyurl.com/59eywl
In this one it says despite a reported drop in crime the country is in an uproar for harsher penalties and more police.
It will never end.
This just had me worked up and irritated with the media and the publics willingness to swallow anything and everything as 100% truth with no other side, and any information not in the article is not important or irrelevant.

try this one...its been going on for a while now, but theyre trying to do it quickly and quietly:

http://www.kniferights.org/index.php...id=81&Itemid=1

[greenlama]

It's already being tried in this country as they want to classify trigger assisted knives as switchblades and want to ban them. I got my initial notice from the NRA and if you watch the televised knife shows (CCN or SMW) they are also bringing up the issue since the bulk of their product would be banned from import. Maybe slingshots, water pistols and rocks will also be banned.

[YllwFvr]

On a bit of a side note; you might find this a bit interesting.
I work at a paper plant, and on diaper side they used to encourage you to bring in your own knife (so they dont have to supply them) because one job has 6 guys opening boxes all night and repacking diapers into bigger boxes.
Someone cut themselves, and now no cutting implements are allowed in the plant. This includes razor knives that the stock room used to keep. So other parts of the plant have been stripped.
They mean for you to just yank hard and break the tape. We've already had repetitive stress injuries and pulled muscles in the first month. But its better this way.

Its been tried before, and how close was it to success?

[crlovel]

It's already being tried in this country as they want to classify trigger assisted knives as switchblades and want to ban them. I got my initial notice from the NRA and if you watch the televised knife shows (CCN or SMW) they are also bringing up the issue since the bulk of their product would be banned from import. Maybe slingshots, water pistols and rocks will also be banned.

Water pistols are already banned in Philly. No shit.

[kht428]

On a bit of a side note; you might find this a bit interesting.
I work at a paper plant, and on diaper side they used to encourage you to bring in your own knife (so they dont have to supply them) because one job has 6 guys opening boxes all night and repacking diapers into bigger boxes.
Someone cut themselves, and now no cutting implements are allowed in the plant. This includes razor knives that the stock room used to keep. So other parts of the plant have been stripped.
They mean for you to just yank hard and break the tape. We've already had repetitive stress injuries and pulled muscles in the first month. But its better this way.

Its been tried before, and how close was it to success?

WTF?!!!
You've got to be kidding me.

[YllwFvr]

Water pistols are already banned in Philly. No shit.

Are you serious?

[Pennywise]

Water pistols are already banned in Philly. No shit.

Ummmm, No.

[JCWohlschlag]

Ummmm, No.

Umm… yes.

Philadelphia Code § 10-810. Weapons and Dangerous Devices.

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(2) Water Pistols, Electric Canes, and Miniature Cannon.

(a) No one shall sell or offer for sale water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon, or similar articles.

(b) No one shall use water pistols, electric canes, miniature cannon or similar articles in any street or public place.

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I actually posted a thread about just this subject a while ago.