I've been having a mental wrestling match with myself since this was first posted. On the obvious side, the WSJ article is a disgrace, and is just more evidence of the soccer mommy mentality of asking the press and government to tell us what to do. On the other side, is the knife and tool industry just using this to get money from us to do soemthing that they are in business to do?

Now I give a lot of money to a lot of "rights" organizations. While I strongly believe in what they do, and even more strongly believe in the rights they are affiliated with, I am constantly bombarded with fund raising requests.

I would hazard a guess that the knife and tool industry is more financially solvent than say the gun industry. They also have a far better public relations image (up to now). I guess my question is, is this just another reason to add money to their marketing coffers, or is this really the first step down another slippery slope?

Comments?