[2banana]

How do they feel about baseball and cricket bats?

[Kozak]

Check this article out.








Missing the Point
Banning sharp kitchen knives won’t cut Britain’s violent crime. | 2 June 2005


Violent crime continues to increase in Britain, by 17 percent last year alone. Stabbing is particularly fashionable, and up to a quarter of British 16-year-olds now claim to carry knives whenever they leave home, and to be prepared to use them. That is apparently what the Scouting motto, “Be Prepared,” now means to British children.

An anxious editorial in the British Medical Journal, penned by three emergency room doctors, offers a partial solution to the problem: ban the sale of kitchen knives with pointed ends. Such points serve for nothing, from the culinary point of view (the authors consulted several eminent chefs); but they sometimes inflict fatal wounds in the course of domestic arguments. EXCERPT

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_06_02_05td.html

[antiRepublicrat]

I don't know. There have already been calls for the banning of combat-style knives. Of course, my response was is it worse to get stabbed/cut by this Ka-Bar:

Or this razor-sharp, high-carbon hardened steel Zwilling 12" chef's knife?