New Knife Legislation in CO?

[CS1983]

Maybe they could attack it from the angle of people with motor skill issues, etc. First legalize them for medical issues purposes and the next thing you know, Colorado Ave in COS is replete with knife shops!

[Irving]

Don't forget the trades. I wonder if utility line workers like using both hands to open a knife while they're holding onto a power pole?

[CS1983]

There is no such thing as centrifugal force. How does the law rectify that?

All knives open by centrifugal force if they rotate on an axis to do so (http://www.livescience.com/52488-cen...al-forces.html). The law assumes that it would be a force not actuated manually by the agent of the knife handler. However, this is in fact the case in all situations, whether the mechanism of actuation is a flick or by pulling the blade.

#funwithmetaphysics (because the failure of this language forgets the reality of causation, primary and secondary)

[Irving]

There is no such thing as centrifugal force. There is centripedal force, but that's not how knives open.

[CS1983]

granted, but this language usage is referential to appearance.

[Irving]

I had to reread your post to see that we were in agreement.

[JamesB]

There is no such thing as centrifugal force. There is centripedal force, but that's not how knives open.

A number of knife laws use language related to "centrifugal force." I have never heard of using a physics based argument that the phrase is meaningless, or just plain wrong. However, the more strikes against the law as written, the better the chances of getting it repealed.

If you can show up at the hearing and explain to the legislators in simple language non-scientists can understand, that the language the law uses does not describe knives that flick open on a pivot, or that the language is unfairly vague, that could really help.

In my opinion, in order for this law to be repealed Democrats will need a reason to support the bill. Colorado Democrats hate weapons, and they hate self defense. A focus on issues they like is needed. They like due process. They dislike laws that give the police a reason to hassle minorities. Repealing unfairly vague laws makes sense to Democrats (and to most Republicans also, but Colorado Republicans are OK with weapons and self defense, for the most part anyway. So that argument can suffice for them to support it). An argument that the language the law uses is vague because it describes a force that doesn't exist in the science of physics could make sense to Democrats.

[Irving]

The other side of that thought is getting a law that is less vague, but still bands all the same style knives.

[CS1983]

We need to legalize all knives for the sake of lesbian eskimo midget left handed ninja albino persons, who frankly are in danger of being mugged everywhere.

[TFOGGER]

We need to legalize all knives for the sake of lesbian eskimo midget left handed ninja albino persons, who frankly are in danger of being mugged everywhere.

AKA "Snowflakes"...