It's hard to determine whether New York style anti-knife laws actually make the streets safer. According to the FBI, knives were used in 13 percent of homicides in 2010. Jan Billeb, the executive director of the American Knife and Tool Institute ("Imagine Your Life Without a Knife"), claims that the overwhelming majority of knife crimes are committed with kitchen knives. [More]And people on the terror watchlist can get them! Without background checks! Something must be done! For the children!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Kitchen Loophole
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"It's irrational
to believe that if you ban certain types of
knives, criminals will somehow stop being
criminals."
That has to be the quote of the year. Bloomers and his minions won't be happy until they disarm every law abiding citizen.
Not going to disarm his "only ones" I'll bet!
You mean a person who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence after he entered a guilty plea to slapping his wife 40 years ago can actually legally purchase a steak knife? Do Bloomberg and Lautenberg know about this? What the hell is this world coming to?
My gawd! I've carried a pocketknife since before I was 4 years old. I've used pocket knives for everything from skinning snakes, emergency screwdrivers, cleaning my fingernails, and even upon a couple of occasions, along with a couple of shots of strong whiskey, getting rid of a pesky painful wisdom tooth. I've never considered the implement as a weapon.
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