On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:20:50 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:56:30 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:10:09 -0500, BAR wrote:

All knives should be banned. Regardless of their usefulness to society
when used legally knives should be banned.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c.../12/2011-02-12
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11000 killed by guns last year. not that many by knives

Making up numbers as we go along? There were 9,369.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...-with-firearms

Total number of murders? There were 16,204.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders

Most murders? South Africa. They have gun control - competency laws.
http://www.southafrica.info/public_s...ens/gunlaw.htm

Second most gun murders? Columbia. Attempts to eliminate guns?
Apparently, an abject failure, but then, you can only eliminate the
legal ones....
http://www.southafrica.info/public_s...ens/gunlaw.htm

Third most murders? Thailand... Gun control? Yep. Working? Nope.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/...s-in-thailand/

People with common sense and a sense of history realize why
prohibition failed.... this is no different.....

You paint it as all or nothing. It's not. There's something called
common sense, to which you claim to be a subscriber.

How about trying to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally insane
for starters? Does that encroach on your freedom to bear arms?