Where is balance Academic priorities 307

There is also a huge mission creep here; where what was a search for portable guns were extended to knives, and then to mundane tools.

The cost to society goes up dramatically. In such a society, where can you legally transport knives after you bought them? What cost having to make arrangements for tools?

They even mess with telecom eqipment (coax cutters, plint tools, small pliers) at the airport security, even though these have been explicitly certified for carry-on. I have had to be curt with airport saftey personell at more occasions than one.

And, it adresses a problem we really don't have.

We have had a culture of responsible use of guns and knives. The Norwegian native attach weapon is the axe, even featured in the coat of arms. The axe featured as the top liquidate weapon in all decades we have trial records for, and that goes back to the early 1200's. Knives overtook the axe in the 1990's, but only slightly, and if you exclude immigrants 1 the axe was on top.

But is there any limit on carrying axes? Noooooo. You may be towed in for disorderly conduct if you display it very prominently in public though.

-- mrr

1 Non-western immigrants tend to use guns, westeners use knives. There are more of the latter.