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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
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.
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.
Who cares about this when your whole argument lies in original designed purpose/altruism.
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?
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Knives reduce the consequence (in terms of numbers of dead and bystander victims) of murders.
If we want to play reducto absurdum why can't I own nuclear material. I mean they are used to create power and the homicides by nuclear materials are absurdly low.