Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife

No matter what you give up, the advocates of control will always ask for more. If it isn't a semi-automatic it will be a pump gun, or a single shot, or any gun at all. When you run out of guns it will be knives… the goal is 100% disarmament.

To give this one an "activism" angle, I very much advocate that we don't give an inch on gun control these days.

George Wostenholm is rolling over in his grave - collection bins on the street corners ?!?

In Forestry, I spoke with a former attorney for Green Peace who stated that when he began working there, he was told "We never compromise. We make them compromise." When dealing with activists, that will always been the deal, regardless of what they advocate.

Serious question.
Is kitchen cutlery registered or restricted there?

hso said:

If that's actually a serious question, no. The Surrender Your Knife movement is directed at urban youth, but it isn't law. Just a propaganda program.

There was a suggestion by some chefs that knives with pointed tips be banned, but it met with significant opposition and died.

This sort of nanny lunacy is being fought in the U.S. by Knife Rights and AKTI. AKTI is a knife industry group while Knife Rights is a grassroots knife owner organization. They can use all the help we can give them to fight this struggle state by state to stop this sort of thing showing up here.

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It was serious. An 8" Victorinox breaking knife used to dress a cow could be used to extremely deadly effect, hence my question. I'm referring to the high end, specialized knives used in animal slaughter by professionals; my original post was a little too broad-ranging. Sorry.
http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Cu...=1435072827&sr=1-5&keywords=victorinox+8+inch

Thermactor said:

Serious question.
Is kitchen cutlery registered or restricted there?

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no, however carrying it around is. you also cant buy a kitchen knife of any kind until you're 18, 16 in scotland.

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives

While I was visiting Ireland and Northern Ireland, I was very conscious of how many of my normal carry tools here in the states could easily be misconstrued as weapons. I wasn't about the go on an adventure without SOME kind of tool, but even a Leatherman might be considered a locking knife as the handle keeps it from folding down.

I settled on a Victorinox Explorer. A good thick SAK that had more gizmos than sharp blades but will still be useful for most any need that cropped up.

Granted, I spent most of my time in the country side where the people were very practical would appreciate a harmless too, but I would have thought thrice about even using the scissors out in public in Dublin for fear of exciting the locals even though the SAK fully conformed to the knife laws.

The anti-knife activism has been going on for some time in Britain . . . here's a link to an article from 2009.

Lowering the bar

June 16, 2009, "British Manufacturers Offer Pointless Anti-Stab Knives"

May 28, 2005, "British Medical Experts Say Knives Too Pointy, Call For Ban"

I have an old butcher knive that I made into a hunting/fishing utility knife by shortening the blade to 4.5" and honing a 45 degree angle end using a concrete slab as a rough cut hone, then a sharpening stone. I find it a good tool for poking holes in condensed milk can lids. My son in law gave me his late uncle's fishing knife, again a kitchen knife shortened to 5.25" with a more swept tip, useful I suppose for gutting, scaling, filleting fish. Both knives have homemade holsters; the uncle's a bit more elaborate with rivets and a snap strap. The point is, anyone with a piece of iron or steel and a stone can made a pointy knife with just a bit more effort than making a sharp pointy stick. Or put a point on a blunt blade.

I guess the "medical experts" figure that since a ban would stop them from acquiring a pointy knife legally, it would stop a person intent on illegal mayhem from acquiring a pointy knife. Or they buy into the germ theory of violence, that violence is caused by knives or guns or whatnot, and a ban would remove the cause; this smells more like the "miasma" theory of disease that plagues were caused by bad air. Actually miasma disease was caused by microrganisms and the smell (miasma) was the result of the cause, not the cause itself.

Britain has certainly come a long way since WWII when Churchill said even a housewife can fight the Nazis, if one comes in your house kill him with a carving knife.

Please remember, we ask farmers and hunters to donate sporting firearms to give to England early in WWII after Dunkirk.
We also had the government Lend-Lease program to send them military weapons.

Because they had already disarmed the populace in the early 1900's, and didn't have enough guns to defend their country from a German invasion.


Then after the war ended?

They collected them all up again and dumped them in the English Channel!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/650257/posts





rc

Is that a tail or a sword on that winged image on her shirt ?

They say you can't fix stupid, but it sure is a growing desease in todays world. There isn't even words for this type thinking that doesn't sound degrading. What's a kind sounding word for moron ?

If you want a weapon, it's easy to make one. I have a nice chunk of obsidian that was used by Native Americans to fashion knives, arrowheads, and other cutting tools. Give me a couple of hours with a piece of bone and I can rough out an extremely sharp cutting tool that could do some real damage.

Those who want to take all our weapons away will have a very hard time completing that task. There are just too many things that could be used as defensive (or offensive) weapons besides firearms or knives.

This is the type of knife that was planned on replacing pointed kitchen knives with.

As silly as the brits appear to be with this sort of stuff, it helps to remember that "British youth" are all too good at using knives in local bars and dancing establishments on a Friday night....

Our species will always find ways to improvise weapons when the need arises no matter what efforts to ban them are in place. Government efforts in this regard need to be fought no matter what the item being proposed for a ban or restriction. Consider it a form of pest control...

Makes me wanna puke.....

IIRC, folding knives with locking blades are forbidden for carry in the UK unless specifically required for ones occupation -- hence the sale of "UK friendly" knives by companies like Spyderco. I will gladly be corrected if that's not the case.

In regard to the OP theme, the ad should simply say, "Surrender your spirit, surrender your balls."

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One positive aspect of blunting kitchen knives is a decrease of domestic violence where the woman stabs the man.

Thermactor said:

One positive aspect of blunting kitchen knives is a decrease of domestic violence where the woman stabs the man.

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i wonder how long it will take people to realize they can still slash with the blade