Kitchen Knife Control......

[Toad]

Don't forget sharpening stones. Can't have them lying around loose now can we?

[Raider179]

Originally posted by lazs2
oh?  good point.   since guns prevent from 1.5-3 million crimes a year here... even if 1% would have ended in a fatality without the firearm... then guns do indeed save lives.

The deterrent effect that interviewed convicts admit to is very high to but hard to quantify.

lazs

lol do they even solve  1.5-3 million crimes a year? That sounds like a very high number. Not to mention I seriuosly doubt 1% of crimes would end in a fatality.


On a different subject, knives are already subject to rules governing posession of them. How bout at Airports, or public places in NY.

http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/ny.txt

10-133

          Possession of knives or instruments.

A.

          Legislative findings. It is hereby declared and found that possession
          in public places, streets and parks of the city, of large knives is a
          menace to the public health, peace, safety and welfare of the people
          of the city; that the possession in public places, streets and parks of
          such knives has resulted in the commission of many homicides,
          robberies, maimings and assaults of and upon the people of the
          city; that this condition encourages and fosters the commission of
          crimes and contributes to juvenile delinquency, youth crime and
          gangsterism; that unless the possession or carrying in public places,
          streets and parks of the city of such knives without a lawful purpose
          is prohibited, there is danger of an increase in crimes of violence
          and other conditions detrimental to public peace, safety and
          welfare. It is further declared and found that the wearing or
          carrying of knives in open view in public places while such knives
          are not being used for a lawful purpose is unnecessary and
          threatening to the public and should be prohibited.

B.

          It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on his or her person or
          have in such person's possession, in any public place, street or park
          any knife which has a blade length of four inches or more.

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by lazs2
don't a lot of euros die from soccer riots?   Banning soccer seems a reasonable thing... after all.. we have a defacto ban here and as you see our percapita soccer riot fatalities are much lower than the euro barbarians.

lazs

I can't understand soccer, why would the same guys play the whole game? Imagine if in hockey the same five guys had to play the whole game? It would be soccer!!

I am telling you, we come up with some new rules to soccer(on the fly line changes) and people in the united states will take notice. Having the action up and down the field would make it exciting, create more scoring chances and more goals. Tired players do not an exciting game make. Make the game exciting and people will watch. Soccer can be pretty exciting when the players are not too tired to run.

[lazs2]

raider... why don't you think one percent of the crimes people use a gun to stop would have ended up in a homicide?  Seems a lot of our crime ends up in either a homicide or a serious injury.

A lot of the crimes prevented by guns are rape and burglary and assaults... these are high risk crimes for homicide and serious injury.

soccer has no life saving value at all and cause many deaths every year that are needless.

In england the amount of homicides has never varied much no matter what the gun control measures... same for allmost anywhere that has ever been studied.

Seems more likely that people kill based of soiciological reasons and that if you ban one way for them to kill each other they will simply use another method and the rate will stay the same...  If you ban guns the rate for gun related homicides may go down but the rate for homiciedes overall will remain about the same... it often goes up even.   If you ban knives then you get soccer riots or basketball riots or maybe even "starbucks ran out of foo foo juice" riots.

emotions and socioloigical patterns can't be controlled with bans.

If you live in a dangerous place then it is best to arm yourself with the most effective weapon.  If not... you can take a chance but... I say the choice should be an individual one and that banning weapons is simply giving away human rights for no logical reason.

lazs

[Maverick]

Originally posted by beet1e
No it's OK. As long as I have a qualified user (ie someone who can cook) standing within arm's length of me, it's all perfectly legal.

People in arms reach of you have been injured. That alone puts you in the area of non contact with a dangerous weapon. Domestic assault means you cannot be trusted to maintain your temper. This means no access to weapons no matter who is "qualified" in your area.

Your government needs to make sure you cannot use one of these to hurt anyone. Turn them in. You obviously cannot be trusted to not be violent.