America's future under the anti-gun minority: "Anti-stab" kitchen knives and "smart guns"

By Gerard Valentino

Things have gotten out of hand in Britain and it's a shame that a country with such a rich history can succumb to the will of a misguided minority. According to a story published recently on the TimesOnline website, Britain's first "anti-stab" kitchen knife is set to go on sale.

From the story:

The first "anti-stab" knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.

It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.

Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.

He said: "It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can't inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone."

To think the opponents of self-defense won't try a similar ploy here once they get guns outlawed is to live in a dream world. Remember, the same gang that elected Barack Obama did so while claiming we aren't enough like Europe, and suggesting we need to emulate their public policies.

Before they get to banning knives, however, there is still the matter of making guns "safe" for use in America. We already know their tactics. Since the anti-gun crowd continues to perpetrate the fraud of a "safe gun" on the American.

Each time a new miracle invention that will make guns nearly inoperable is unveiled, the anti-gunners scream about how any reasonable gun advocate should support it. The problem is that the technology trumpeted in the establishment media for keeping guns "safe" is usually a failed product.

Instead of looking at the so-called safe gun products with skepticism, the establishment media buys into the anti-gun claims without question. Recently, microstamping of bullets has been the golden calf of the reasonable gun control crowd and in years past it was "smart gun" technology. One option kept a gun from firing unless the shooter was wearing a certain ring on their finger that had a microchip. Without the microchip being in the right place on the gun's grip, the mechanism remains locked and the gun remains inoperable.

A great innovation. in theory, but it didn't work, and furthermore it kept families from keeping a gun in the house that everyone could use in a self-defense emergency. If the person wearing the ring is hurt and unable to fire, the gun becomes a club or throwing weapon.

Requiring guns to be sold with "safe gun" technology isn't designed to keep people safe, but is designed to put another needless hurdle in place to keep honest people from choosing a firearm as a self-defense tool.

The anti-stab knife is another product designed to create false hope among the touchy-feely anti self defense crowd. You can bet that the same people who trumpet the "safe" gun will call for a governmental referendum to bring the anti-stab knife to the United States.

We can only hope it happens, since it will further expose the anti-gun crowd's true intentions.

They aren't fighting to stop gun crime or gun violence as they claim. Rather, they are determined to keep Americans from having the ability to fight back when attacked, giving the government even more control of our personal safety.

It is incumbent upon all liberty-minded Americans to fight against the misguided polices put forth by the type of people who honestly believe an anti-stab knife is going to reduce violent crime. As usual, it puts a mechanical limit on a decision by a person to commit a violent act. Over the years, we've learned through failed gun control policies that regulating inanimate objects does little to stop people from committing violent crimes.

Instead, we need to let honest people use the best means of self-defense available, because despite all the promises of government to protect the American people, they historically have failed to do so.

The examples of those failures are horrifying and include Columbine, Katrina and the 9/11 attacks.

More than likely, however, your moment of terror won't come in a national tragedy. It will occur in your home, in the parking lot at a strip mall or after you take cash out at a walk up ATM.

Let's hope, for your sake, when that moment comes, you still have the right to carry a firearm to defend yourself and aren't forced instead to carry the utterly useless anti-stab knife. Since, as we know, the criminal attacking you won't follow the law and won't have turned in their gun or usable knife.

Gerard Valentino is the Buckeye Firearms Foundation Treasurer and writes for the ValentinoChronicle.com.

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