(October 3, 2015 at 12:41 pm)c172 Wrote: This is just me, but being stabbed frightens me more than being shot. But yet, I don't think we're doing too much to regulate carrying knives as compare to guns.
That's a pretty fatuous statement to make. Knives are multi-purpose tools. I carry a knife almost everywhere I go, and it has never occurred to me that I might use it to stab someone.
But how many uses does a gun have? You can't slice cheese with a gun, or cut a piece of cord to the proper length, or debone a chicken or shave a bit of wood off that annoyingly squeaky door that's driving you spare, or dig out the cashew you dropped into your printer. Guns have the sole purpose of shooting things, full stop. Whether those things are people, clay pigeons, paper targets, empty bean tins, or animals, you shoot them with guns. Guns also convey a feeling of invincibility. If you piss someone off, they may shoot you form 20 feet away, knowing there's not a lot you can do about it. If this person has a knife instead of a gun, there's at least a chance they're going to hesitate, as there's always a chance for you to take their knife away and feed it to them.
The debate is about guns. Not knives, cricket bats, bricks, rocks, halberds, battle axes of any of the other things people use to damage each other. Guns.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
