[2Stonedbirds]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

So those are easier than whittling a sick into a point? That's a pretty good argument you got there.

You contended that they are harder to make (which they are) and that they are possible to regulate (not always the case) but it doesn't take away from the thousands of handmade from template pistols that make their way all over the world each year.

Why does original purpose matter? This is a very silly argument. One is essential for daily tasks (eating, construction, medicinal, etc), the other is not. Why are you arguing about what cavemen made a blade for????

I thought that was the basis for arguing against firearms in society? Original purpose and all that. Firearms are used for daily tasks everyday (varmint control, hunting, L.E.) if we are only going to look a legitimate uses for one why do we exclude legitimate uses for the other?

No. Less guns means less successful homicides.

So then less knifes surely means less successful homicides.

We don't need to reduce our knife homicides because our homicide rate is one if the lowest in the world.

We don't? Through 2011-2016 there were 969 knife homicides committed, compared to 797 for firearms. Stats can says the weapon of choice used in violent crimes is a knife.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-402-...rime01-eng.htm

If it's the controls around firearms that keep our firearm homicide rate so low, then why not enact stricter knife laws, such as a ban on certain knifes that clearly no one needs (katanas, machetes, throwing knifes, spears, pointed steak knifes, fixed or folders with a blade longer than 4") liscencing to own a knife and start a knife registry such as other countries have? Larger knives needed for butchering can be made available, but only to those who earn income from butchering. Of course the manufacturing or altering of ANY knife would be prohibited.

If I can dress a buck with a 4" blade (as recommended by AHEIA) then surely you can prepare your roast with one.

There isn't a leading need for a multibillion dollar useless beaurocracy to decrease something that's already absurdly low. We also don't need further gun regulations either

While I agree, don't you want to lower the overall knife homicide rate?