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This is even worse than trying to regulate cryptography. The bright side is that this will probably be even less successful than past attempts to regulate crypt
by commandlinefan 6y ago
This is even worse than trying to regulate cryptography. The bright side is that this will probably be even less successful than past attempts to regulate cryptography, too.
- jhgb 6y agoOr knives? Knives are not banned in the EU but trying to stab people with them usually is. Yet most people don't seem to have a problem with the criminalization of stabbing people with knives.
- pelorat 6y agoCarrying a knife on your person however, that is banned in a lot of EU countries. Exceptions being you need it for work, or the knife needs to be transported from one place to another.
- jhgb 6y agoDefine "a lot". I'm aware only of the UK. In my country you can walk with a sword in public and nobody bats an eye. You just can't swing it at people.
- ridaj 6y agohttps://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/knives/Legislation-in-Europe-overview/ https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/knives/Legislation-...
- jhgb 6y agoCool beans, so it's roughly half of them or so. Nevertheless it still seems to be a ban not on knives but on some of their uses, such as using them against people or planning to do so.
- La1n 6y agoThis link also indicates: >Carrying regularly requires a "justified reason" or a "legitimate purpose" That was kind of the point OP was making right? Only certain uses of knives are prohibited.
- ridaj 6y agoNeeding to have a legitimate purpose / justified reason is a higher bar than "not swinging at people". It means if you're a gardener going to work cutting down bushes it's ok to carry a machete, but if you're just an ass carrying a katana in your back just for the looks, "but I wasn't swinging it at anyone" won't get you out of jail
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt's pretty misleading to say "certain uses" when it includes the default. In the list of reasons you might have a knife, the blatantly good reasons are allowed, the blatantly bad reasons are disallowed, and everything else is disallowed.