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Threat actors use knives to stab people - we have to stop selling those.
by lzooz 4y ago
Threat actors use knives to stab people - we have to stop selling those.
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- xeromal 4y agoThere's an argument to be made for that. See, the UK.
- chitowneats 4y agoSure. Might be hard for people to do certain manual labor jobs without access to sharp objects. I'm sure they'll figure it out. We'll have to ban rocks next though.
- oneplane 4y agoIt's pretty hard to stab people with rocks, especially multiple people.
- notadev 4y agoBut pretty easy to cause blunt force trauma to the head
- hedora 4y agoGenerations of Native Americans beg to differ.
- oneplane 4y agoThe native-american generations population probably doesn't intersect with the population of teenage knife-wielding attackers in london, which is what we're talking about. Then again, if you want to argue stone-age semantics: we can't ban anything and should just resort to continuous murder since rule-based society is too hard.
- exedore6 4y agoWe just need to watch out for teenagers learning flint-knapping.
- tialaramex 4y agoIn the UK if you're under age and you decided to buy a knife you will have a lot of difficulty unless it's a little folding (but non-locking) pocket knife, like the small Swiss Army type utility knives. Indeed legally as old as 17 you can't even buy a steak knife in England although you can in Scotland. Once you've bought a knife, it will usually be illegal to carry it in public unless you have a good reason, and "self defence" is not a good reason. Some particular knives, which have no apparent purpose except as weapons, are just illegal automatically except in some cases if you're a museum. In particular almost all swords (if they have a working blade) are in this category, and most things designed as concealed weapons (e.g. blade hidden in an umbrella, combs that are actually knives, push daggers)
- rovr138 4y agoI'm not trying to be an asshole, but we don't get much info from UK here besides things like the Queen dying, so I have to ask, Does it work? I mean, are instances of kids <=17 year olds with knifes down? What about shivs and other things? The reason I'm asking is because as a kid, if I had been told to not do something, I'd just find a way to do it. Not to use it, but to find loopholes and just say, _so what?, I can do x_
- voakbasda 4y agoIt absolutely does not work. Violence finds a way.
- metiscus 4y agoThe mind is humanity's most lethal weapon. With the "right" mindset the entire universe can become a weapon. Efforts to reduce violence tend to focus on the presence of concrete weapons (because this is easier to quantify and measure etc) with much less focus on violent ideation and the root causes of the various forms of interpersonal violence. Reducing violence is a tricky thing because to a large extent it seems to me to be a symptom of broader and nearly intractable societal malaise. Not that it isn't worth removing nuclear weapons from circulation but the returns diminish quicker than most public policy folks seem to want to admit.
- _8j50 4y agoTalk about a strawman. Knives have utiltiy which is a feature. Domain fronting is a bug not a supported feature.
- brookst 4y agoYou’re mixing up definition and policy. If airlines banned knives and someone posted a definition of “knife” that suggested they are only used for eating food, it would be perfectly reasonable for a reply to point out that there are dangerous uses which might have led to the bad, and that it’s disingenuous to suggest that the ban was obviously motivated by a desire to make eating difficult. It’s still fair to debate the balance of use and the merits of the ban, but IMO it is not reasonable to be upset over a more complete definition and context.