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> Seat belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. > Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people

> Seat belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. > Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people use them everyday without issue. You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably).

forest_dweller 6y ago
> Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. Enforcement and compliance are two different things. I was saying that it cannot be enforced. Not that people won't comply. > You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably) You seemed to misunderstand. The way we have is perfectly safe as it is. Billions of people use them everyday without issue. There is neither the incentive or need to. You cannot enforce the ban of knives as they are soooo trivial to make (you can make a knife by hitting a large stone against a piece of flint). Even in a very locked down environment such as a prison inmates still manage to acquire them or produce them. Even if in your fantasy world you did outlaw them and was successful. People would hit each other with Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal. You must solve the problem of why people are being violent not what they are using to be violent.
- thotsBgone 6y ago
  > Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal. That's a good list of items less deadly than a knife.
  - forest_dweller 6y ago
    Make shift weapons can easily be as dangerous (or more so than a knife). People have lost their lives by simply being punched in the head. Life isn’t like the Hollywood action movies, the human body can be very fragile. It is obvious that you are either idiotic or disingenuous. Judging by the user name, I would guess the second. Have a nice day.

forest_dweller 6y ago

> Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. Enforcement and compliance are two different things. I was saying that it cannot be enforced. Not that people won't comply. > You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably) You seemed to misunderstand. The way we have is perfectly safe as it is. Billions of people use them everyday without issue. There is neither the incentive or need to. You cannot enforce the ban of knives as they are soooo trivial to make (you can make a knife by hitting a large stone against a piece of flint). Even in a very locked down environment such as a prison inmates still manage to acquire them or produce them. Even if in your fantasy world you did outlaw them and was successful. People would hit each other with Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal. You must solve the problem of why people are being violent not what they are using to be violent.

thotsBgone 6y ago
> Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal. That's a good list of items less deadly than a knife.
- forest_dweller 6y ago
  Make shift weapons can easily be as dangerous (or more so than a knife). People have lost their lives by simply being punched in the head. Life isn’t like the Hollywood action movies, the human body can be very fragile. It is obvious that you are either idiotic or disingenuous. Judging by the user name, I would guess the second. Have a nice day.