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

[Sue Clemenger]

She didn't specify human-on-human violence, just violence.  And taking 
the life of an animal would certainly qualify, especially from the 
animal's point of view.  The end result might be food for someone or 
something, but the inbetween parts are hardly non-violent.
And before I get every gun-rights activist coming out of the woods to 
flame me, I should point out that I'm an omnivore like most of my 
species, and grew up in a hunting/fishing family, took Hunters' Safety 
when I was 13, etc., etc.  Heck, I even own a gun, even if I never 
intend to use it....
--maire, who notes that our pre-gun ancestors managed to get game 
without them just fine, and who also notes that people can eat lots of 
things besides meat.....

Lady Celia des Archier wrote:

> '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. 
> 
> 
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