Originally Posted By: GaznazdiakYou are dead right Sniper66, you guys in the US need to fight the fight we here in Australia were unable to win.
As much as I love Australia and wouldn't live anywhere else, the constantly rising "nannification" of our laws has us with steadily diminishing rights. We have the most stringent libel and slander laws in the world, reducing our freedom of speech to the point were it is illegal now to say anything likely to give offence to someone if they can prove they were offended.
We have ever tightening knife laws, automatic knives have been banned for a long time, butterfly knives were next because they could be opened by one hand, and it is now impossible for a private citizen to import knives with a thumb-stud as they can also be opened one handed. Only one state, Queensland, allows a person to carry a pocket knife, but only if it doesn't have a locking blade and the blade is under 3" and they can prove they have a valid reason to be carrying it.
I must be an habitual criminal because I have carried a pocket knife every day since I was given my first for my eighth birthday, and the one I carry now is a monstrously dangerous lock-blade with a 3.5" blade fitted with the dreaded thumb-stud.
Be assured if you let the lace-panties brigade take your guns, your knives will be next.
Pointy sticks will be next here, along with anything else not made from nerf.
http://www.sportingshooter.com.au/gun-law/when-can-you-carry-a-knife-the-loose-cannon
That's the problem; too many stupid Americans don't think it would, could, whatever happen here. They're dead wrong. They won't realize it until it's too late, though.
It's sad when a foreigner has to tell us to stand up for our rights.