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To: bentway who wrote (787009)6/1/2014 3:15:36 AM
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Hi bentway; Re points on knives; The French court agreed with you; they were having so many nobles killed at the dining table that they invented the butter knife. On the other hand, outlawing pointy knives isn't going to stop the psychopaths because even the stupidest of them is probably capable of figuring out how to resharpen a blunt knife so that it has a useful point. Hell, convicts make knives in prison.

I believe it's the book On Killing which notes that the natural human inclination is to use weapons as clubs and to strike blows against the head with them. So part of army training is to get the soldiers used to inflicting stabbing wounds instead of slashing.

Probably the tool that has killed the most people is the machete. No point but it works fine. All this reminds me of the strange case of "The Machete Murderer", Juan Valley Corona, who was convicted of murdering 25, with an unknown number of graves never located. And while in prison, "[o]n December 6, 1973, he was stabbed 32 times in his cell because he had bumped into a fellow inmate in a corridor and failed to say, 'excuse me,' " according to wikipedia. He was recently denied parole:
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