When Guns Are Outlawed – part two
A while back I did a quick blurb called “When Guns Are Outlawed“. Well, since then I also read about a new knife for sale in the UK that is “stab proof”. Haven’t seen any pics yet, but I suspect it will have something like a large flat thing welded or forged on the tip. As shown by the pics in the article above, such measures will never defeat anyone who wants a weapon capable of stabbing someone.
Recently someone left a knife at our place. It was in horrid condition and showed signs of abuse. Since the same folks also caused stuff of our to no longer appear it wasn’t hard to convince myself to give the old abused cutlery a new lease on life. So below is a photo essay on the process. Essentially it went kind of like this. First, remove hollow plastic handle thingy. Not too hard since one of the rivets was actually a melted lollipop stick. Then use a grinder to reshape the blade and angle the cutting edge. Use an orbital sander with coarse paper to give it a “matte” finish and then add a multilayered nylon rope/string/epoxy glue handle and sharpen the blade on a whet stone. The abuse is still evident on one side of the blade, but it’s much more useful now. And then I finished it up by dipping the wrapped handle into liquid rubber to seal it from water and to give it a better non-slip grip surface.
The tools I used were basic. The skill level low. All I had to do was remember to keep the steel cool so that it would not lose its temper. It would be a matter of maybe two minutes to reshape one of those “stab proof” knives into something that could easily be used to stab. What the presumably well intentioned folks who invented that knife don’t seem to understand, it’s not the tool – it’s the person who uses it. And if one is intent on going around stabbing folks, nothing will stop them from obtaining or manufacturing the tool necessary for such activities. The weapon does not cause one to use it inappropriately. Inappropriate behavior comes from inappropriate thought patterns and belief systems.
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