Knife Registry on the way?

[Jungle]

And let's not even THINK about the knife hand pointing ....

Regarding the pic that accompanied your post: What's the CRA in the Marines now, 80 ??

 

[larry Strong]

Regarding the pic that accompanied your post: What's the CRA in the Marines now, 80 ??

General Mattis is 63 and retired.



Larry

 

[George Wallace]

That brings up some good points: if a grinder can put a point on a knife, and you can just as easily stab someone with a screwdriver, maybe we should require all shop tools to be registered as well!  >

Let's register pens too. 

The saying "The pen is mightier than the sword." does have a certain truth to it. It is now very rare to see anyone who carries a sword.  Many, however, have pens in their pockets.  You can just as easily stab someone with a pen as with a knife.

Shall we go so far as to ban/register pens?

 

[The_Falcon]

Let's register pens too. 

The saying "The pen is mightier than the sword." does have a certain truth to it. It is now very rare to see anyone who carries a sword.  Many, however, have pens in their pockets.  You can just as easily stab someone with a pen as with a knife.

Shall we go so far as to ban/register pens?

http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/tactical-self-defense-pen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHgENdGr8TA

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Let's register pens too. 

The saying "The pen is mightier than the sword." does have a certain truth to it. It is now very rare to see anyone who carries a sword.  Many, however, have pens in their pockets.  You can just as easily stab someone with a pen as with a knife.

Shall we go so far as to ban/register pens?

If you see someone with 4 or 5 5H, or higher, pencils without erasers, they're likely not writing with them. 


Edit - spelling

 

[George Wallace]

If you see someone with 4 or 5 5H, or higher, pencils without erasures, they're likely not writing with them. 

Signed in blood. 

 

[Old Sweat]

We used to be issued 4H pencils in the artillery for setting up the artillery board. Actually we used a combination of 2B and 4H for various parts of the set up.

 

[a_majoor]

Karate was developed in Okinawa by peasants who were forcibly disarmed by the Japanese when the island was conquered in the 1600's. A martial art which was designed to be used against Samurai protected by armour and carrying swords, polearms or even firearms is certain to get on someone's radar (not to mention more modern marital arts like Krav Maga).

People are going to find ways to attack or defend themselves, regardless of what social engineers think or want. Blaming the object (knife, gun, baseball bat) is just a form of animism, which demonstrates that people who think that way haven't mentally evolved much beyond their Neolithic ancestors.

Let's register magical thinkers instead, since they are the ones causing widespread damage to society.