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"Rabid Weasel Lawson" wrote in message
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On Dec 16, 3:40 pm, "Lachlan - KotU" wrote:
> Well, over here in the good old UK, we're allowed to carry a sub 3"
> non-locking folder. Unless we can PROVE that we needed to carry something
> bigger or less foldy for a specific task. Where I live, in the city,
> there
> aren't really any excuses I could make for carrying something bigger.
> Carrying a knife can get you 4 years in the chokey. They are talking
> about
> making it an automatic 10-stretch too, same as carrying a firearm
> illegally
> (which really means carrying a firearm "at all").
Can you fake a limp and carry a cane?
> And yet, Glasgow, where I live, still has the highest murder rate of any
> city in Europe. Fun and games!
Surely you're not telling me that you guys are having trouble getting
criminals to follow the laws? ;)
I know! Most unsporting of them.
Other things are completely illegal even just to own. Switchblades,
balisongs (I used to have a miniature one with a half inch blade,
technically that's illegal too), push knives, gravity knives, brass
knuckles, belt buckle knives, sword canes. All it means is that our
stabbings are mostly done using kitchen knives, which, believe it or not,
are just as deadly when shoved into one's abdomen with force as most other
types of knife.
Actually I do have a slight limp, and I've got a walking stick in the
cupboard from when I had a back operation in 2001.
I carry a small, old, sheepsfoot bladed folder, that I got from my brother
in return for fixing his computer, 2" carbon steel blade, and almost no snap
left in the spring whatsoever. In saying that, it is usually VERY sharp ;o)
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