philip964 wrote:So I haven't paid much attention to bill 1935. Apparently it has passed. Now the press is picking it up and since some of my friends know I have a LTC, it seems they think I know all about it.
All I know about knives is that I use them in the kitchen, don't bring a knife to a gun fight, the 30 foot rule, and you cut away from yourself. That's from Cub Scouts right?
After September 1, anyone can carry a spear, sword, machete, or Bowie knife in public, with the exception of the places we currently can't LTC. Right?
Businesses will have to put up another sign, if they want to keep Conan the Barbarian types outside.
Does it have to be open carry, or can you conceal carry any knife?
When I was six, I always thought Zorro was a cool guy. But then there is that pesky, don't bring a knife gunfight thing. Katanas are still really cool, but in the Last Samurai, they all died as well.
Its easy to go to the range and practice. Hard to practice and get good with a knife or sword.
What about collapseable battons, are they legal yet?
And there was an overpowering need for this bill because? Freedom? Memory of Jim Bowie?
The main reason for the need to repeal the knife law had nothing to do with people carrying broadswords everywhere, they are heavy and very few I'll carry them anyway. The knife laws were so convoluted, and filled with exceptions, that they were past being rediculous. There was never a definitive definition of a Bowie knife, blades sharpened on two edges were no more deadly than those sharpened on only one, a machete could be carried, if one was engaged in its normal use, and, as you stated most kitchen knives would have been illegal due to their length.
These laws have only been used to charge someone with a crime, when no other charge could be levied, or to enhance a misdomenor, by adding an illegal knife charge.
Any law that is only trying criminalize an inanimate object, without it being used in a crime is, in my opinion, as illogical as gun laws. I don't expect a huge surge in mall ninjas, or Conan the Barbarians invading Starbucks.JMHO