Comment on Knife vs. Gun Control?

• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean, those are reasonably weapons, no?

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah you’re right, that is one limitation. The rational is that it has no purpose other than being a weapon.

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• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah you’re right, that is one limitation. The rational is that it has no purpose other than being a weapon.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the difference between “assisted open,” which is almost always legal, and “automatic open” (e.g., switch blades") is very minor. They are both just ways of freeing and locking the blade for use. I don’t think either of them implies they will be used as a weapon. I would guess the laws are just stupid and, as another user pointed out, related to a historical “moral panic.”

    Damned greasers and their switchblades and leather jackets. When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dying day!

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fair

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