We need a new ban. Clearly, it was all the fault of the evil assault knife!
Save us! Oh, save us from our kitchens!
“Gilliland said the suspected attacker is believed to have had some type of knife or a pencil.”
… Or our home offices.
We need a new ban. Clearly, it was all the fault of the evil assault knife!
Save us! Oh, save us from our kitchens!
“Gilliland said the suspected attacker is believed to have had some type of knife or a pencil.”
… Or our home offices.
Don’t they have strict knife control in Not-so-Great Britain and Lostralia now? Just wait- it’s coming here as soon as “they” think they can get away with it. My bowie knife (THIS is a knife!) would already get me in trouble in most places.
Sorry Kent it is perfectly legal here to wander around with a knife in your pocket. Yes there are restrictions on length and flick knives, however if a knife or blade exceeds these lengths and is used in part of your work(or indeed for camping) then you may carry it, to and from and during your working day.
Of course such laws didn’t stop a gang attacking and killing a teenager with swords in a busy london street a few weeks ago, then again a ban on handguns did not stop a man shooting two police officers, he also used a hand grenade(don’t think they have ever been legal!)
We have a lot of hysteria in the press here however but in rural wales where i live i have at times popped into the local cafe having just bought a new axe or machete at the hardware shop. Not once have i been surrounded by a swat team! And if you are on your own land you can carry whatever you like.
Off on a tangent here claire but have you seen this article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306441/Hakken-brothers-missing-Anti-government-parents-kidnapped-toddler-sons-confirmed-Cuba.html
The most notable part being that they are listed as being anti government types. Funnily enough it was at one of these anti government meetings that the father was arrested for drug possession. Now call me cynical but ……
Is it possible to imagine a place where weapons bans are more PERFECT, controlled, orderly, and absolute than in a prison?
Anyone?
So looking at prisons then, we can observe an absolute lack of weapons, violence, and murder, right?
Oh for got to add BAN ALL HI CAPACITY CRAFT KNIFE MAGAZINES NOW! no one needs a pack of 100 stanley knife blades. It’s pure evil I tell. Act now for the sake of the children !!!!!!! ;-))
OMG! It appears that the deadly assault knife-and-or-pencil has now been identified as “similar to an Exacto knife.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/09/lone-star-college-stabbing/2067449/
And Roger, I have a whole “magazine” full of blades for those. But I’ve had it since, like, 1980. Do you suppose it’ll be grandfathered in after the ban?
I think it depends on the number of evil features. A hi cap mag, and a large plastic molded grip….right out!
Was this a quick release mechanism or the dastardly folding model Exacto?
Claire, I am afraid I will now have to snitch to the BATF&EK on your arsenal. I am afraid civilian ownership of such weapons of mass dissection cannot be allowed. Turn yourself in now, you know it’s the right thing to do! :-))
Quick release. But NOT BLACK! NOT CAMO! NO PLASTIC GRIP! Please, not the BATFE&EK!
Lord save us.
Actually, when I heard the “news” about this from hubs… I was actually thinking that some poor soul decided to sacrifice himself for the sake of making gun control look idiotic.
Plastic knives, soft plastic knives. Everything else should be banned.
Now I’m gonna have to go out and buy up Exactos and extra blades. ASAP. Or stop matting things.
Love the article–well, the pictures–Claire linked to above. Two girls attend to a stabbing victim while an enourmous donut-eater (note the holster on her belt) stands around clutching her paperwork.
Why aren’t the college students correctly identified as “first responders?”
The downside of this (I always think of the downside) is that the anti-gunners will say that if a gun were involved, it would have been a massacre. At least the sheriff had good words for the “first responders.”
Thank you again for the lovely drawing of my bride. Often, I am up late reading and doing a daily review an hour or two after she has retired for the night. Looking up and seeing her pretty face on our living room wall makes smile.