Liberty MavenWill Obama Ban Pocket Knives?
June 26th, 2009 4:54 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Big Government, Civil Liberties, Individual Responsibility, law, Liberty, Politics | 7 Responses
Ready for Knife Control?
Apparently, President Obama thinks that any pocket knife that can be opened with one hand should be considered a “switchblade” and should therefore be banned from being imported.
The Washington Times reports:
The Obama administration wants to expand the 50-year-old ban on importing “switchblades” to include folding knives that can be opened with one hand, stirring fears the government may on the path to outlawing most pocket knives.
Critics, including U.S. knife manufacturers and collectors, the National Rifle Association, sportsmen’s groups and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, say the rule change proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would rewrite U.S. law defining what constitutes a switchblade and potentially make de facto criminals of the estimated 35 million Americans who use folding knives.
Pocket knives of this sort are already illegal in England and Australia, prompting grassroots advocacy groups such as Knife Rights to pop up. Can it get any more asinine? I fear the answer is yes.
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pm (#)
When will these people realize that guns and knives don't kill people and those that want to kill will find another way to do it anyway?
How far does this go? A bubble-wrapped world?
June 26th, 2009 at 9:17 pm (#)
So is it legal to stab someone with a knife that takes two hands to open? If not, why the ban?
July 1st, 2009 at 7:48 am (#)
[...] Never mind your guns, now they are coming after your lightbulbs and Tylenol and knives. And you silly liberals thought Bush was a threat to your liberty. Pfft. Possibly related posts: [...]
March 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm (#)
Perhaps we need to take a good look at the movies our children are watching and the video games they are playing. A lot of people seem to totally ignore the rating of the movie – whether it is intended for 15 years or over. They are rated for a REASON. If they are seeing violence all the time as youngsters, they think it is a natural part of life. If they see this violence for the first time as teenagers (15+), they already (hopefully) have the maturity to understand that it is not a "normal" and "accepted" way of life. And also, by now, they would have been made aware of and understand any/all possible consequences of the violent actions.
You may say, well if you don't want your children watching these shows and playing the games then don't buy them. However, our children are mixing with other children who are exposed to these things all the time. I don't want to wrap my children up in bubble-wrap – I just want other parents to care as much and pay more attention to raising their children in a responsible manner.
March 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm (#)
Perhaps we need to take a good look at the movies our children are watching and the video games they are playing. A lot of people seem to totally ignore the rating of the movie – whether it is intended for 15 years or over. They are rated for a REASON. If they are seeing violence all the time as youngsters, they think it is a natural part of life. If they see this violence for the first time as teenagers (15+), they already (hopefully) have the maturity to understand that it is not a "normal" and "accepted" way of life. And also, by now, they would have been made aware of and understand any/all possible consequences of the violent actions.
You may say, well if you don't want your children watching these shows and playing the games then don't buy them. However, our children are mixing with other children who are exposed to these things all the time. I don't want to wrap my children up in bubble-wrap – I just want other parents to care as much and pay more attention to raising their children in a responsible manner.
April 16th, 2011 at 9:29 am (#)
Everyone who advocates bans on material objects and weapons and tools are fools, and evil. Material objects do not kill or maim. People do. An armed society is a polite society. The REAL agenda is an International Socialist takeover plot by One Worlders who want everyone to be disarmed and easy to murder, except their personal guard, aka, the international version of the SS. Read the quotes by United Nations and one-world globalists and you see the evidence from their own lips!
January 24th, 2012 at 5:26 pm (#)
Definitely agree with the above about guns don't kill people. Gun owners kill people. Doubt very seriously if President Obama wants to ban regular pocket knives, and if someone wants to carry a machete around, they should go to Bolivia.