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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
The point I made is that the absence of guns did not stop murders. The knife took over as the most efficient method possible and apparently served quite well.
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The point I'm making is that our government didn't write legislation to specifically include knives in to laws permitting citizens to arm themselves. A knife is neither permitted nor forbidden, it's a knife. A tool that has MANY functions, only one of which is as a killing weapon, and even that function is secondary to its primary function, which is simply "to cut things".
A semi-automatic firearm's primary function is to kill, and yet it is written in as a permitted weapon. In other words - legislation exists to give murderers permission to possess these weapons. As long as they haven't been caught (yet) and have a clean record, there's really nothing to stop them from LEGALLY possessing these weapons that exist PRIMARILY to kill people (not animals, but people) because the law ALLOWS them to possess them.