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Save a life, bin that knife. Only criminals need knives. /british-persona That said, shouldn't the retailers be prosecuted for being in legal possession of the item prior to sale? They legally own all of the products in their inventory
> Only criminals need knives. And cooks, hunters, electricians, plumbers, casual restaurant goers etc. Try slicing your steak with a fork or a spoon next time.
This is a single symptom of a larger issue, namely an excess of laws to the point that any law can be arbitrarily used to prosecute you if you are of an unwanted class, race, etc. Add on top the police quota system and you have a recipe of this type of injustice that runs the gamut, from antiquidated knife laws to the drug war. To me, this is largely a result of lawyers fucking ruining everything they touch, and then…
The general wisdom in the knife community is to not make a scene or rock the boat if you've got any pocket knife on you and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES use a pocket knife to defend yourself(even under thread of life or limb). There's a metric ton of laws about using knives and weapons(even in self defense, largely tied to gang enforcement) and prosecutors tend to aggressively pursue them. In a lot of cases you'd be under less legal jeopardy drawing a pistol with a CCW than a small pocket knife.
Knife laws are also enforced on a per-city basis(aside from the assisted knives which are generally state-level). So one town might have a length limit of 3" where the next town over might be 3.5". It's almost impossible to not run afoul of some local ordinance.
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It was a few years back, but I first learned about this in a documentary that had police officers practicing to flip knives open and teaching each other how to do it with different brands/styles of knives. Try as I might, I can't come up with an ethical justification for this behavior. They were literally training to make knives do things beyond their design, for the purpose of charging people who had no intent to do…
If we rethought whatever quota system is in place for arrests it would be a great help. Cops need to make lots of arrests, this is an easy arrest to make, and the cop is a step closer to the quota. It seems to create a system where people arrest people for profit instead of to "serve and protect."
I believe quotas are illegal, at least in many jurisdictions. So, they use something even worse. They use performance metrics. This perversely incentivized ever-increasing arrests, citations, and summons, by becoming a heavily weighted consideration for raises and promotions.
They are, theoretically, supposed to pay attention to those who don't perform at about the average. Instead, they only scrutinize those who are below average. They promote those who have performance metrics that are above average.
A search for 'police performance metrics' is illuminating.
This is a single symptom of a larger issue, namely an excess of laws to the point that any law can be arbitrarily used to prosecute you if you are of an unwanted class, race, etc. Add on top the police quota system and you have a recipe of this type of injustice that runs the gamut, from antiquidated knife laws to the drug war. To me, this is largely a result of lawyers fucking ruining everything they touch, and then…
It's absolutely absurd that "arrest quotas" are even a thing in America. The job of the police in most first world countries is to protect the people, not make arrests for ludicrous laws. I don't want my tax dollars funding police officers camping out on highways to hand out speeding tickets or arresting random people for having pocket knives on them. No wonder Americans have such an adversarial relationship with the…
Pro tip, avoid German train stations if you're not white.
This is a single symptom of a larger issue, namely an excess of laws to the point that any law can be arbitrarily used to prosecute you if you are of an unwanted class, race, etc. Add on top the police quota system and you have a recipe of this type of injustice that runs the gamut, from antiquidated knife laws to the drug war. To me, this is largely a result of lawyers fucking ruining everything they touch, and then…
Yup, I own a few Benchmades and aside from one with a physical lock[1](which happens to be a "spring loaded, assisted knife", which is not illegal) all of them could be considered gravity knives by nature of their locking mechanism. However things like Kershaw's SpeedSafe[2] and other assisted knives are totally legal and exempt, it's crazy. The general wisdom in the knife community is to not make a scene or rock the…
Long time ago, acquaintance was assaulted/mugged on a platform and defended self with a boxcutter. Subsequently had to go to trial and defend actions. IIRC, took a while to get things cleared even tough it was self-defense. But maybe it wasn't as onerous as it could have been with a real knife.
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As defined by New York, basically any modern folding knife. If you can open it one-handed, it’s a “gravity knife”. I went to NY last year. I could have been prosecuted under this law.
Spring assist folding knives don't meet the NY definition of a gravity knife even though they are easier to deploy than many thumb stud knives. They can be purchased in the city.
Courts have interpreted that to mean that any knife that can be opened with a “wrist flick” — a movement something like what a fan dancer might do — qualifies as a gravity knife. A long list of court cases have turned on exactly that question, which seems straightforward enough."
I think spring assisted folding knives do meet this definition, and the article also does mention many folding knives sold in the city also meet this definition
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Wait a minute, I have one of those and they're hard enough to open two-handed, your arm would break the sound barrier before you could flick this thing with enough speed to open it one-handed. Is this really considered a gravity knife?
Even holding the blade?
Cops get a bad rap, but the DAs haven’t come under fire. They knowingly ruin many many more innocent lives than cops. And unlike cops who may shoot in a poor split second decision, DAs knowingly and willingly destroy the lives of the innocent for their own personal gain. It’s time we put blame where it is due.
Only one of those two drops the blight of a criminal record onto someone's future.
What we as citizens can do is demand that elected officials hold DAs accountable for their wrongful convictions.
This is a single symptom of a larger issue, namely an excess of laws to the point that any law can be arbitrarily used to prosecute you if you are of an unwanted class, race, etc. Add on top the police quota system and you have a recipe of this type of injustice that runs the gamut, from antiquidated knife laws to the drug war. To me, this is largely a result of lawyers fucking ruining everything they touch, and then…
Clearly that person has never read the GPL, all of the legalese is clearly explained in the license. The GPL has always been my go to as an example of an easy to read and understand legal document.
This is a single symptom of a larger issue, namely an excess of laws to the point that any law can be arbitrarily used to prosecute you if you are of an unwanted class, race, etc. Add on top the police quota system and you have a recipe of this type of injustice that runs the gamut, from antiquidated knife laws to the drug war. To me, this is largely a result of lawyers fucking ruining everything they touch, and then…
I have one of the Luftwaffe ones. If you're hanging upside down in a tree, it's great to have a knife that you can open with one hand.