Hi Doug,

I've sent requests to at least 60 people to join the Knife Rights group. One response states:
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"I honestly think you should be able to carry whatever knife, gun or weapon you want. But I don't see this as an issue currently and their web site did NOTHING to convince me of that... Why doesn't the website list ANY legislative efforts that are bad/need to be defeated. The entire website is dedicated to getting me to join. Has there ever been legislation that made it out of committee that would limit knife rights?"


Now, you and I know that there's every likelyhood that's coming, and perhaps a bill is already written, waiting for a publicly nasty stabbing or other trajedy before being introduced in congress and rammed through. But he brings up the point of "It doesn't affect us". I'm pretty sure most of the folks here would disagree with that on principle, but to many people, this is a prevailing attitude.

I've found plenty of written attacks, petitions and the like against knives and for legislation making massive penalties for carrying knives, but nothing that is being threatened into making it into law in this country. I'm sure that one of the goals of the site is to track laws affecting knife rights, but since there wasn't anything on the site, one of my friends wouldn't join. I'm pretty sure I could have missed pertinent legislation that's already out there, and I know this is still a new organization and that probably only true believers will join initially, but it's food for thought moving forward.

Do you have a response prepared for that? Is there anything that Knife Rights can put on the site addressing this common attitude?

I don't mean to hijack the thread, and perhaps it's best left to the Knife Rights site forums when they are online, but I thought maybe in this one instance folks here could come up with a good response for my "hard to convince" friend.

Thanks!
-Tom
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