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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This is the same thing over and over again with gun people.
Here's why your argument is ridiculous:
-Knives can be easily homemade, and regulation is impossible. Guns are the opposite.
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Zip guns, sten guns, Asian market which brings handguns into countries all over the world that never came from a factory. They even get a BS serial number too. Regulation for knives is not impossible there are countries with knife registries. Want a new silver set from Sears? Better register it, for safety. Look at britains knife laws.
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-knives have many other purposes and are essential household items. Guns are not
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Says you. Again knives were first designed to kill people. They do so at a higher rate in Canada than firearms. The reasoning here is because I don't use my firearms to kill is no argument for their viability; since their original purpose it to kill. Same with knives, I don't care how you decide to cut your turkey. Knives bad.
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-guns are orders of magnitude more lethal. How many toddlers accidentally killed their parent with a knife this year?
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Who cares about this when your whole argument lies in original designed purpose/altruism.
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-the only reason more people are killed by knives is because there are regulations on guns and knives are everywhere. Reducing the number of guns still reduces the number of deaths
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Ahhh that's what's been keeping my firearms from killing people. The regs.
So if the regulations and controls are working for guns then surely you can get behind a knife registry, central storage, and govt medical disclosure forms before you can use one yes? Let's get that 'homicides by knives' number lower. Agreed?