Time to ban all knives (politicians, 2015, California, Oklahoma)

[Arjay51]

Originally Posted by jamies

I drove ambulance for awhile when I was young. I personally ran two calls where people were killed with Hammers! One was like seriously gross, a fight on a construction site over music on a radio. One guy buried his hammer in the victims head. Hit him so hard an eye popped out.

If not knives, it will be hammers, or forks. I'm pretty sure someone has been killed by a fork.

Not to mention all the deaths by thrown rocks in the past.

[GregW]

Jamie's - The forks were called tridents and were mostly used for fishing.

New Hampshire once banned almost every knife except butter. the legislature dropped the ban a few years ago. So I can now carry a double edge dagger as a backup weapon.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Not one person was killed. Thank god this guy didn't get his hands on, and use, a gun instead!!!

Or a car!!!!!!!!!!

[wildflower82]

Originally Posted by Steve40th

According to FBI, the knife has killed five times as many people as compared to rifles...
Regardless, we digress. Kids dead, and thats a good thing.. He attempted to kill and ruin several families lives all because of Allah, Islam and family not loving him enough...

This ^^ and the other poster is worried about guns. These people probably fear their own shadow!

[jojajn]

This is a, "hey look over there at the knife instead of the semi-automatic guns!"

Tell me how the CO theater shooter could have killed and hurt as many with a knife instead of his guns.

[shooting4life]

Originally Posted by jojajn

This is a, "hey look over there at the knife instead of the semi-automatic guns!"

Tell me how the CO theater shooter could have killed and hurt as many with a knife instead of his guns.

I see you are not one for statistics.

[blind melon]

If the guy was a gun fan the death toll would be much higher

Thank god he didnt have a gun

[freightshaker]

Originally Posted by blind melon

If the guy was a gun fan the death toll would be much higher

Thank god he didnt have a gun

And than god he didn't have ammonia fertilizer and diesel fuel, the death toll would be much higher

[blind melon]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

And than god he didn't have ammonia fertilizer and diesel fuel, the death toll would be much higher

Never heard of that happening at a uuniversity

[freightshaker]

Originally Posted by blind melon

Never heard of that happening at a uuniversity

So you think a university is immune of the same type of violence that Tim Mcveigh brought to Oklahoma City? Do you think a high school or elementary school is? The issue is not what the means of mass killings is, but rather why it happens at all. Sooner or later, these criminals are going to figure out that they can kill more people at a cheaper price with an explosive device. When they do, you will see much greater devastation. You can ban anything you want, but until you address the basic problem, it will continue to exist. Those who died in the Oklahoma City bombing never imagined that a mass murder of such magnitude would ever happen to them when they went to work that morning. It did and not a single shot was fired. Start addressing the cause of the problem rather than a symptom or sooner or later there will be a devastating price extracted.