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You said, "They have knife bans because they never let their citizens have guns, so there are knife attacks, so they ban knives" Texas has numerous bans on kni

by giaour 5y ago

You said, "They have knife bans because they never let their citizens have guns, so there are knife attacks, so they ban knives" Texas has numerous bans on knives, despite letting their citizens have guns. Your causal logic is incorrect.

hunterb123 5y ago
> Your causal logic is incorrect. It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively. > Texas has numerous bans on knives, Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length. It's like saying because full autos are banned Texas has a gun ban.
- giaour 5y ago
  > It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively. I get that this statement sounds intuitive to you, but I would challenge you to substantiate a correlation between gun restrictions and increased violence with bladed weapons with some data before talking about causality. I personally think the majority of such violence is opportunistic, so I would be surprised if such a correlation were truly borne out by any data. > Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length. When I was growing up in Houston, it was a felony to carry anything with a blade over 5.5" on your person. (I distinctly remember my scoutmaster warning us about locking or fixed blades >3.5", but that may have been a Houston or Harris County ordinance.) It looks like this was effectively repealed in 2017 per https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-laws/ https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-l...

by giaour 5y ago

hunterb123 5y ago

> Your causal logic is incorrect. It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively. > Texas has numerous bans on knives, Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length. It's like saying because full autos are banned Texas has a gun ban.

giaour 5y ago
> It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively. I get that this statement sounds intuitive to you, but I would challenge you to substantiate a correlation between gun restrictions and increased violence with bladed weapons with some data before talking about causality. I personally think the majority of such violence is opportunistic, so I would be surprised if such a correlation were truly borne out by any data. > Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length. When I was growing up in Houston, it was a felony to carry anything with a blade over 5.5" on your person. (I distinctly remember my scoutmaster warning us about locking or fixed blades >3.5", but that may have been a Houston or Harris County ordinance.) It looks like this was effectively repealed in 2017 per https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-laws/ https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-l...