http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Knife...aid=Pr5zu0F9L-k

Bravo, Mr. Ritter, for getting on top of this!

Da Bing

From the article: "...law enforcement officials testified that 'the modern way of approaching these issues is to go after the source of the items rather than the criminals themselves.'"

LOVE IT! It's so stupid and mindless that it boggles the mind.

Sue

Be ever vigilant. This utterly insane, unconstitutional, and dictatorial garbage could easily come to a municipality near you.

Some bankers commit large-scale crimes with money. Wonder when the government will wise up and go after the source of money rather than the criminals themselves.

Not that I want to trivialize this, but my understanding is that this sort of prohibition on tools extends to stuff like crowbars. Maybe you guys know more, but my understanding is that if you are found with a crowbar, and you don't have a legitimate reason (e.g., a construction worker at work), then the tool would be regarded as evidence that you're up to no good (planning breaking & entering, e.g.). Now, I happen to have a crowbar in my bugout kit. That makes me worried.

Da Bing

So what exactly do they hope to accomplish? Or is this still at the "angry mob demands action, any action" phase?

Regardless of what the politicians do to appease the crowd, anybody could still go to walmart and buy a kitchen knife with an 8" blade. It always amazes me the lack of common sense that comes with efforts to ban knives/guns/whatever (especially knives).

A very strange state of affairs. Thousands of high powered assualt rifles are shipped to criminal drugs cartels (whose main line of business is the import of elicit drugs into the USA) in Mexico by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Operation Operation Fast and Furious, which resulted in these weapons finding their way back onto the city streets in the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious

Yet it would appear there is no public outrage in the USA over these criminal actions by US Government Federal law enforcement agencies, but OMG a law abiding citizen carrying a 3 inch folding knife without good reason to do so....

A bizarre and worrying state of affairs as the propagation of fear grips the nation.



I guess you just have to just take into consideration the level of corruption and criminality that is currently established in the your local government and police force as well as the level of knife, gun and violent crime. They are all factors which must be considered before venturing out whilst 'tooled' up.

This is not good. I have a tire-changing tool mounted underneath my spare tire.

Jeanette Isabelle

The article is painful to read. It's a shame it even needed to be written.

Never underestimate the government's capacity for idiocy.

I wonder how many violent crimes that baseball bats have been associated with, and whether there's ever been talk of blaming Louisville Slugger or questioning the average person's need for a baseball bat.

Citizens should probably only be trusted with Nerf bats and wiffle balls.

I have been advised that I should not carry a baseball bat in my car without it being accompanied by a glove, ball and perhaps cleats.

A couple of winters ago, I passed a poor dead (HBC) cat alongside the road, frozen solid.

AN EMERGENCY WEAPON!

Just wait until the Bureaucrats Against Dead Cats as Weapons finds out about it.

Sue