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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
The functional difference between a what is commonly referred to as "assault rifle" aka "Scary Black Rifle" and a hunting gun is about the same amount of difference between a fishing knife and a switchblade. They both have a bad reputation based solely on media misconceptions, and the distinction has absolutely no significance in reality.
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Agreed. But an assault rifle (no matter what definition you choose) is clearly more capable of injuring and killing more efficiently and from a greater distance than a knife. When's the last time you heard of a drive-by knifing? I'm not advocating that we ban any guns. I'm advocating that we make our weapons laws consistent and sane. It makes no sense that we have a recent landmark ruling asserting that the 2nd does indeed guarantee us the right to bear arms, and yet somehow knives seem to fall outside the definition of arms. The prevailing attitude seems to be that the 2nd says we can have guns, and only guns, when in fact "arms" is a broad category including (but of course not limited to) guns, knives, swords, nunchaku, tonfa, daggers, and maces. Of those weapons that I listed, I could with far less hassle get and carry a gun than any of the others, and that's asinine. It should be equally hard or easy to carry a knife as it is to carry a gun.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
I think you have some of the groups mixed up, badly. I know of no pro gun rights group pushing for these anti knife laws.
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Yeah, I didn't make that sentence very clear. I am not claiming that the NRA is anti-knife. Only that people seem far more accepting of the NRA and people who own guns, than they are of people who own folding knives.