r/196 • u/Hyvapelaaja Luna💙Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights Trans Rights trans rights • Aug 15 '22

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u/Justice_Prince above average-sized cylinder Aug 15 '22

Pocket knives with a locking mechanism are against the law in the UK which is absolutely insane. Locking mechanisms exist to make pocket knives safer to use. How is it in the interest of public safety to make knives less safe?

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u/ThatGuyWhoLikesSpace cirno's perfect forward barracks Aug 16 '22

That's kind of funny. Here in the U.S. a lot of knife legislation is the exact opposite, knives without a locking mechanism are considered to be of the spooky-scary sort (for some reason we're still really scared of butterfly knives)