Read the last paragraph closely...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080609/ts_nm/japan_stabbing_dc

that's just great. what about tighter controls on vehicles?

i wonder which weapon killed more people.

It´s a sick world <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

Good grief! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Sad Indeed! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Too bad it wasn't a Ginsu knife... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/paperbag.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like the vehicle was his main weapon of choice.

I feel for the innocent folks that were injured and killed.

Sounds like the "government official" from that last paragraph has been talking to some of the other fool politicans from this country and others that have this pea brain idea that banning objects influence human behavior.

Make bombs illegal and no one will blow people up. Make locking knives illegal and no one will get stabbed. Hmmm... This banning thing ain't working to well is it?

when i read that article on yahoo, it said something to the affect of the police THREATENED to shoot him AFTER he had stabbed those people if he didnt THEN drop the knife.

WTF!!!!!

after he had stabbed and run them over, the cops intervene? maybe they were just late on the scene...

well put, my friend. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" /> I was having this arguement with someone the other day. Living in Oregon most people see EDCing even a SAK as insanity, so this forums gives me a link to like-minded people who understand that knives are TOOLS and inanimate objects

You can't keep someone in a maximum security prison from getting a blade and now they want to try it in a supposedly free society. Crime is a price we pay to not have a police state. We had tens of thousands willing to die for freedom in the world wars and yet the babyboomers are willing to give up that freedom over something like 911. Sure it was terrible but it was not even a bad days total on the western front. 30 million Russians died in WW2.

These ban everything PC arsewipes are just fascism for pussies.

As an LEO and Martial Artist, I believe we need to take responsibility for our own safety. Banning weapons only keeps them out of the hands of the innocent. The criminals or the deranged will get what they need anyway. Being prepared should be a way of life. Just my 2 cents.

The lame mayor in Seattle wants to ban people from crrying guns at public events because of a guy last year who shot someone, ( he was leagaly ccw a pistol) so now all of the law biding people are going to be punoished while the bad guys do what they want!@#$%^ ugg

Stansbrew, he had a CCW (not issued in Seattle) but his mental-health history should have negated him having one in the first place. The Sheriff in his county (Snohomish, I believe) did not give due dilligence to his application.

Anyways, the Seattle mayor is the lamest mayor around. He's trying to ban fires on beaches, saying they contribute to global warming. He's trying to usurp state firearm laws with his latest scheme, banning legal firearms carry on all City property. He's put a parking tax on businesses that have employees that drive to work. Should I keep going? He's spent millions on a trolley-car to nowhere that no one rides. He wants 500,000 people to move to Seattle in the next 10 years but he wants to eliminate non-essential vehicle traffic in the downtown area. It's endless, I can't wait till his term is over and I don't even live there. But what happens in Seattle bleeds over into the rest of my great state. OK, rant off.