To all the non USA residents that have places any kind of knife is prohibited.

What do the authorities use as reasoning for these types of laws if the majority of the population are good people? Does it make sense to you? Do the people of your country have a tendency to be bad if they have certain implements?

I seem to recall that Austria used to outlaw private possesion of typewriters. Do they still do so and are word processing programs outlawed?

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