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Worcester, MA proposes knife ban.

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posted on Oct, 30 2008 @ 07:14 AM
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Politicians in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts -- Wormtown, to those of us who attended college there and ruined our hearing listening to punk bands at Ralph's -- propose to ban the possession in public of knives with blades longer than 1.5 inches. The ban follows a rise in after-hours stabbings among the city's bar- and club-goers from 85 in 2006 to a projected 148 this year.



The idea seems to be that if you forbid the carrying of sharp pieces of metal, the people committing the mayhem will slap themselves on the forehead and say, "Oh hell, I guess I can't commit attempted murder tonight cuz I might get fined for carrying a pocket knife."


As if a pointless feel-good ban on scary things wasnt bad enough:


He emphasized that the police would have a lot of discretion in enforcing the law to assure that people aren’t wrongly caught up in its net.



Well, I guess that depends on whether the police officer who stops you with an illicit blade feels his spidey senses tingling, or whether his hemorrhoids are acting up, or whether he likes your kind of people.


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How is it a good idea to set a law as strict as a ban then tell the cops they can enforce this law as their prejudices/mood/paranoia/bias sees fit?

As if I needed another reason to hate MA



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