[Sca-cooks] English Doctors want to ban pointy knives...

[Lady Celia des Archier]

'Lainie

> Good grief... you can kill a person with a pencil- will they 
> outlaw them too?
> 
> If you look at their argument though, it fails on this: 
> Knives has useful and valuable purposes, and using them as a 
> weapon represents a misuse. 
> Guns, on the other hand, have no purpose other than violence.

I would have to disagree on this point.  There are still people who hunt for
sustainance.  Coming from a family of tobacco farmers from rural Tennessee
who hunt (large and small game) to put meat on the table,  I know this from
direct experience.  So *some* guns do have a purpose rather than "violence",
at least if by "violence" we mean violence against people.  Handguns,
however, are not made for, nor practical for, hunting, so you would have a
partial point there (if you disregard their use for self protection, which
is a completely separate debate), and automatic weapons are a completely
different topic, but some guns, do certainly have a purpose other than
violence, they are used to provide food for the family.