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> 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
by 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 It looks like this was effectively repealed in 2017 per https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-laws/ https://www.houston-criminalattorney.com/texas-switchblade-l...