Warning: Knives Can Be Bought on the Internet!

[arnisador]

Seen on MT:
Weapon of choice: Frightening array of blades available in stores, over Internet (http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/NEWS/805110344/0/NEWS0703)


Several convenience stores, retail businesses, food delivery drivers and people walking on the streets have been robbed by suspects armed with knives. Descriptions of the suspects vary in age, race and ethnicity, but the common denominator has them all carrying blades they easily concealed in their jackets or hooded sweatshirts.
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Many pocket, folding and hunting knives are not illegal to possess, and can be easily bought at sporting goods stores, general retail businesses and over the Internet. Anyone, even individuals with criminal records, can legally purchase a knife.


Who knew?

[Imua Kuntao]

Not to mention yard sales and flea markets. Oh wow, I just realized, I SELL KNIVES!!!

[KaliGman]

I feel so evil now. I just received a big box from Spyderco--about 15 Spyderco live blades I ordered for my students! The horror! They are now all going to turn into evil flesh slicing zombies.:sword2:

[Shaun]

Guys,you should be ashamed of yourselves,ha,ha.

Oh yeah we have 'the right to bear arms',or does this only apply to the villans?

[arnisador]

Well, in the U.K. they have severely restricted the right to carry a knife. They just passed another measure regarding this recently.

[silat1]

Hey, If it wasn't for the filipino and indonesian martial arts practitioners, most of these companies would be selling uniforms to ballet dancers. Plus look at it on a broader view, we are supporting home enterprises along with keeping people employed and off of food stamps..

Damn, I love free enterprise and the american dream of being able to sell to customers and not have to pay taxes to the state or city.

[arnisador]

Seen on MT:

On the knife's edge (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080607.STAB07/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/)

As Toronto cops crack down on guns, thugs turn to their weapon of second choice (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080607.STAB07/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/)



In Toronto and its suburbs, the ease with which you can purchase a knife attracts scant attention. Instead, the city is so consumed with combatting gun crime that Mayor David Miller and City Council will vote this month on the extraordinary step of evicting legal gun clubs from publicly owned locations such as Union Station, where a gun club has been housed since 1921.


While homicide detectives and policy-makers say firearms are still the biggest scourge on Toronto's streets, the attention, time and money dedicated in the past few years to cracking down on gun crime has made it tougher for aspiring criminals to obtain their weapon of choice.

That means they are unsheathing their weapons of second choice - kitchen knives, jackknives, hunting knives and, if they can get them, illegal switchblades and butterfly knives. "All those things we're doing to decrease firearm weapons is cutting down the availability of these guns," says Staff Inspector Brian Raybould, the head of the Toronto police homicide squad. "At the same time, criminals who choose to arm themselves have to find some way to do it. If firearms aren't available, what's the next best thing? Knives, sharp-edged weapons."

[arnisador]

Easy availability of knives? It's worse than we thought:

[Bobbe]

They are now all going to turn into evil flesh slicing zombies

Zombies are the most misunderstood of FMA practitioners, and this is just another example of the common "Zombie Discrimination" that is prevailing in this country. It just makes me sick how you people carry on with your lives as if Zombies don't matter. Is it any wonder why they've taken to brain eating? It's your own damn fault, if you ask me.

As late as the 1950's, Zombies were revered for their fighting tactics and knife use...
SIKE!!


Jeeze, even I can't carry on a diatribe that long!

Hope nobody took offense to my little joke!

[arnisador]

Hey, if you wrote it, I'd read it!

[arnisador]

You don't see these so often any more! Eh, the last one is of questionable utility. Seen on Amazon.com:

[arnisador]

Saw this double folding knife on the Internet (Amazon). Eh, you can keep it:

[Brock]

Yeah, I've seen it on Bud K for pretty cheap. I've thought about buying it to hang on my wall as a conversation piece. I think there are a couple other designs out there. Seems I remember a eagle scene and maybe a wolf scene as well.

[JoeBrandt]

Well, in the U.K. they have severely restricted the right to carry a knife. They just passed another measure regarding this recently.

Also in Germany... :cry:

[Brock]

The other night at class we were debating our law that says that you may carry a blade, but it has to be under 4 inches. Now I don't know about you, but I'd rather see the guy with the Dundee bowie strapped to his leg and know that I probably don't want to be anywhere near him when crap goes down, than not see the 2-3 inch one that is hidden in a guy's pocket. They both can make me just as dead, but in my opinion I have a better chance against the big knife.

[arnisador]

Under 4" is a pretty common law, isn't it? That's why folders are so often made with, say, 3 7/8" blades?

[Brock]

Under 4" is a pretty common law, isn't it? That's why folders are so often made with, say, 3 7/8" blades?
Yep, seems to be a standard of sorts.