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Balisongs / "Ninja Stars" / Nunchucks - Why Are They Banned?

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It has been at least 10 years since I first made a video about unreasonable, silly weapon bans... Since then, have legislators learned to use more common sense or perhaps even solid arguments with evidence backing them up to decide what should be prohibited and what should be legal to own?
In short: Nope.
Balisongs ("butterfly knives"), throwing stars (shuriken), and nunchaku are still banned in many (if not most) places outside of the US and also a few American states. Let's examine the common justifications for these laws and think about whether they hold water (spoiler: they don't).
Throwing stars are illegal, throwing knives and axes are not. The same is true for switchblades (automatic knives with a blade that opens at the push of a button) and other folding knives, daggers, etc.
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@Zetact_ Жыл бұрын

Everyone knows that you can't mug, assault, or murder someone unless you use a sufficiently cool-looking weapon, and criminals wouldn't dare breaking the law in the process of mugging, assaulting, or murdering someone.

@Donnerwamp Жыл бұрын

Wait, criminals can only mug you with cool and illegal weaponry?! Why did I give that guy with a brick my stuff then?!

@Kraakesolv Жыл бұрын

Nail on the head here. Style points are important in gangs. In my younger days, when I was ignorant and flamboyant, I took a halberd to my mugging sessions just to gain the favour of my elders. It didn't work very well as I mostly roamed narrow alleyways and the corridors of the subway, and as I grew older I came to the realisation they probably laughed behind my back. I'm a nurse now, paying back to the community I occasionally halberded.

@LuisAldamiz Жыл бұрын

I know people who have been mugged with a screwdriver or even a common cutlery fork, you just need to be sufficiently deadly looking while pointing at the eye of the victim or maybe some other weakspot like the jugular.

@Excalibur01 Жыл бұрын

@@Donnerwamp I mean would you rather mug someone with a plain old bat or a bat with nails in it?

@Kraakesolv Жыл бұрын

@@Excalibur01 Any bat, young or old, is still better than one with nails through it. Unless you're thinking a throwing bat, I guess the wings could help if you splayed them out somehow.

@JustABill02 Жыл бұрын

Gravity knives are illegal? Wouldn't non gravity knives just float away?

@texasbeast239 Жыл бұрын

Gravity knives blew up Sandra Bullock's Space Shuttle and killed George Clooney.

@Wizardbeard91 Жыл бұрын

The government doesn't want us to know that shh

@raydrexler5868 Жыл бұрын

😂

@dan_asd Жыл бұрын

they want to silence isaac newton!!!! beware of the governments lies!!! gravity is not what it seems

@DH-xw6jp Жыл бұрын

Imagine if you will, a knife enchanted to _steal_ the gravity of the person it cuts. The more it kills, the heavier it gets.

@yourbifriendaspen3629 Жыл бұрын

"Oh no, gravity knives and switchblades open too fast!" Fixed blade knives: "Allow us to introduce ourselves..."

@realdragon Жыл бұрын

I think it's more to do with concealment

@tdoyr2119 Жыл бұрын

@@realdragon just get bigger pockets and bypass the entire “concealment” viewpoint

@realdragon Жыл бұрын

@@tdoyr2119 That also depends on the laws ni your country, any kind of knife is banned in public space with a lot of people like mall or concert or sports event. At least in my country

@williamtaulbee7805 Жыл бұрын

@realdragon my fixed belt gets scout mounted to my belt and you can't see it unless you lift my shirt🤷‍♂️ thats 5.5 inches of blade easily hidden

@tdoyr2119 Жыл бұрын

@@realdragon whatever country you live in has some goofy laws, but here in the US, most of these laws are made on the basis of “concealment” which is completely ridiculous. In California, those retractable security batons are completely illegal because they can be hidden. However, you could also just wear a jacket and tape a much better, fixed baton inside and it’s a-okay

@MrJinglejanglejingle Жыл бұрын

I still remember the day I was talked to by a police officer because I was carrying a wooden sword to a fun little "duel" my friends were going to have. Yes, I got my ass kicked. Now you know. Three days later, I was WALKING THROUGH STORES and through a SCHOOL YARD carrying a big-ass woodcutting axe, and nobody batted an eye. And before anyone asks, I wasn't going to school at that time. I was carrying it because someone at the school had requested someone bring an axe TO THE SCHOOL to chop down a tree on Facebook, and my mother asked me to do so. No cops, no nothing. I could've taken at least two kids per swing with that thing, but because its a "woodcutting axe", they somehow conveniently think it won't be used to kill. And also keep in mind, most of the School wasn't aware I was coming. I walked through the front doors, past the principal's office, across the school yard mid-recess, and started hacking at a tree whist being crowded by 10 year olds and younger.

@peggedyourdad9560 Жыл бұрын

Lol, you could've totally ax-murdered those kids if you wanted with people not figuring out what happened until after it happened.

@macumezahn Жыл бұрын

same with a large branch saw! lol. ppl that are afraid of how "dangerous" something looks shouldnt be making laws or policy.

@hanzquejano7112 Жыл бұрын

At our elementary school, the teachers made us bring bolo (a type of knife) so we can mow the lawn Filipino style.

@MegaCyberleader Жыл бұрын

sooo, you were being a good boy, chopping down an unwanted tree, while all the time wondering why nobody challanged you about a axe over a wooden sword. Cause people are programmed to be stupid. Also you are a good kid. CAuse you didnt chop down those bullies. I know you were thinking it.

@Justin-ShalaJC Жыл бұрын

This is why the phrase, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. NOT THE ITEM A KILLER IS USING KILLS PEOPLE..

@acorgiwithacrown467 Жыл бұрын

Ireland has a similar law called the "Offensive weapons act 1990" which bans the most specific "Ninja weapons" you can imagine, weapons so impractical they've never actually been used except in movies. And especially in Ireland. Coincidentally movies came out around the same time featuring those weapons :) So Ireland has a law that is entirely based on politicians being scared of fictional weapons in movies.

@TrueFork Жыл бұрын

as a kid I was fascinated by a book illustration on how nunchaku in Okinawa are connected by a rope without knots, so I replicated the illustration with two pieces of broken broomstick and some twine (it involves drilling a couple of holes in each stick and threading the rope through in a specific way). When I realised it was a forbidden weapon, I pulled out the twine and it ceased being one :D

@markfergerson2145 Жыл бұрын

So is the Flying Guillotine also illegal in Ireland?

@Riceball01 Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the anti-aombie knife law in London where any sort of bladed weapon with a bright green handle, or other zombie thems, are illegal. As if a bright green handle or biohazard signs printed on the blade would make a knife somehow more dangerous.

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

California residents: Hey, I've seen this one..

@bellakaldera3305 Жыл бұрын

So it's a "don't try this at home kids" law? I have watched untrained fools injuring themselves with nunchucks, and I never saw any reason to interfere....I have had 25 years of training in various Dojo, so one gets to see both fools and savants. Still, I'd rather just carry a Jo, it is a simple walking stick ( but mine is made of White Waxwood...)

@freestatefellow Жыл бұрын

In the US, there’s an organization called “Knife rights”, which aims to standardize knife laws across states and repeal laws which restrict the sane and reasonable use of tools.

@serioussilliness2064 Жыл бұрын

Eat the rich.

@knightjack Жыл бұрын

Didn't know that! Thanks!

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

They got all knife laws repealed in my state back in 2014, and to the surprise of absolutely no one...the world didn't end and crime didn't skyrocket. I now carry a Microtech Scarab for my EDC. They were also helping a chef in New York who caught a felony charge for carrying his kitchen knives(yes...) to work.

@ClaimSuit Жыл бұрын

while this is true, i hope eventually they wont be needed to do such. more states, if not more countries around the world someday, coming to the side of understanding America's 2A in its intended and original way as opposed to what its been misattributed and misinterpreted to (in a rather Orwellian way at that) all this time later. all weapons are, after all, just tools without free will or intent in the end.

@mandys1505 Жыл бұрын

@@logicplaguei knew of a chef getting his knives taken by the police too

@ioiwut4874 Жыл бұрын

when fear is more common than common sense you end up with laws in place to 'protect' us from ourselves.

@microArc Жыл бұрын

I'm actually surprised you didn't bring up the lethality of lawn darts before they were banned as a toy

@Master_Yoda1990 Жыл бұрын

Or the lethality of kinder eggs.

@minty9984 Жыл бұрын

Or GUNS, HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET ABOUT THIS I NEVER SAW ANYONE COMMENT GUNS IN HERE

@Master_Yoda1990 Жыл бұрын

@@minty9984 because guns aren't banned nor should they be.

@OntarioFreshwaterFishing Жыл бұрын

@@Master_Yoda1990 kinder eggs are the bomb, my 6 yr old has loved them since she was like 2

@Master_Yoda1990 Жыл бұрын

@@OntarioFreshwaterFishing yeah I had kinder eggs once, but I personally loved the Wonder Ball. I do no miss them.

@eyeguydojima7131 Жыл бұрын

The term "automatic knife" implies the existence of "semi-automatic and burst fire knifes"

@aroundthebend721 Жыл бұрын

The electric knife by sister uses in the kitchen would be a weapon of mass destruction in some countries.

@MidMo4020 Жыл бұрын

@@aroundthebend721 🤣🤣

@johnnydjiurkopff Жыл бұрын

Following this line of thought I think I'd apply semi auto to assisted open and burst fire to ballistic.

@shadowstorm657 Жыл бұрын

I've also heard of the mythical "select stabbing" knife.

@piotrmalewski8178 Жыл бұрын

Those laws are just dumb. The UK has one of the strictest laws in the world in terms of carrying even remotely dangerous tools, and have terrible knife crime stats. In Poland on the other hand you can carry literally whatever you want for no reason (except for firearms) and our ratios of any dangerous tool offences are one of the lowest in the world. In Poland you can literally walk into the supermaket being 14 years old, buy a butterfly or 'automatic' knife and no one will ask a question, yet there's almost no crimes related to dangerous tools.

@toddfarthing8760 Жыл бұрын

40 years ago my dad was walking to his truck and a guy tried to rob him. My dad broke his nose with a hard salami. He got arrested for it as well but the case was dismissed. Judge couldn't stop laughing and the guy had a pretty long rap sheet😄

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

Good thing he got a judge with a little common sense, as well as a sense of humor and justice, today that would have likely went sideways for him.

@toddfarthing8760 Жыл бұрын

Back then a judge could actually decide whether or not a case had merit. Now, in NY, a judge doesn't even have a law degree, they just sign as a sworn witness for the state and follow any agenda the DA pushes. Or guns laws suck as well.

@PinataOblongata Жыл бұрын

So basically your dad pulled out his big, hard meat and really gave it to the guy? 🤣

@toddfarthing8760 Жыл бұрын

@@PinataOblongata this was pre-rainbow days sugar skull. Everything wasn't all oily gladiators and tapered blunt objects.

@alexanderlapp5048 Жыл бұрын

@@toddfarthing8760, I find that really hard to believe that a judge would be required to have a law degree and a member of the bar of the state where he or she holds court. I am not questioning your honesty but rather how would the higher courts, and legislative bodies just allow that to happen.

@PinataOblongata Жыл бұрын

If you want a good laugh, have a look at Australia's prohibited weapons legislation. It's written SO loosely that if you tied two toilet rolls together with a piece of spaghetti, that would be considered "nunchaku" and be an illegal weapon. It's something like "any two stick-like objects fastened together with any type of flexible material", but I can't recall the exact wording.

@RoryJordaan Жыл бұрын

At least it makes more sense than banning specific weapons, if you wanted to ban any weapon like objects.

@blackzeppelin9350 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@theoutsiderjess4869 Жыл бұрын

@@RoryJordaan it really doesn't imagine a kid getting arrested because they wanted to be creative and make fake nunchucks to play pretend with

@polarknight5376 Жыл бұрын

Lol, a fishing pole tangled with a stick is illegal.

@danielszigeti3241 Жыл бұрын

Wait, but an iron chain is not a flexible material!

@DMofDMs Жыл бұрын

Just an offhand heads-up: in EMS, paramedics and EMTs are becoming more aware of rings made of tungsten, titanium, carbon fiber, etc.--all the super tough materials. The concern is that, in something like a car accident where there can be a lot of rapid swelling, the tools used to cut off rings aren't designed to cut through materials like this. So if you've got a ring like this and get banged up real bad, take your rings off ASAP. Great video. Entertaining and full of sound read reasoning.

@willam1992 Жыл бұрын

Burns under rings and near them are particularly nasty

@dwightdhansen 10 ай бұрын

@@willam1992 you don't want to see what an arc welder will do to a high school class ring.

@BradyBubbuhgum-fh4ny 9 ай бұрын

@@dwightdhansenI remember my school offering class rings and literally not a single person got one lol. Class of 2017 well if I hadn't dropped out

@Tovish1988 Жыл бұрын

My favorite argument about automatic kniv s is this: If you plan to attack someone you have all the time in the world to open the knife in your pocket. If you are attacked and have to defend yourself, speed of opening is critical. So who does the law help?

@tuseroni6085 Жыл бұрын

"who should you ever need to defend yourself from?" they don't seem to think it is valid for someone to want to defend themselves, this is why they ban guns, and knives, and mace, and body armour and anything that could possibly be used to defend against someone assaulting you. i don't know that it's malicious like "make them feel vulnerable and scared so they will give us more power to protect them" i think they just think "just calls the cops, protecting you is their job"

@LuisAldamiz Жыл бұрын

Yes but I'd argue that in street conflict situations, which I've both witnessed and been victim of, the ability to quickly draw a knife, otherwise kept in the pocket, by the agressor(s) is also very important. I'm still against these absurd laws but in practice an automatic pocket knife is handy also for the agressors.

@Wolf-oc6tx Жыл бұрын

@@tuseroni6085 I say split the difference because while there is a lot of ill intentioned people involved there are also atleast as many people who simply fall for fear mongering involved.

@thehermitthetower1126 Жыл бұрын

Liberal voting will always protect the criminal because the people voting this stuff in are cowardly and don't want to see them on the people they know. It has nothing to do with public safety.

@Tovish1988 Жыл бұрын

@@tuseroni6085 the biggest motivation for politicians is having something to point to and say "There look I made you safer", that will look good at first glance to scared idiots.

@itsapittie Жыл бұрын

Like most "dumb" laws, these are based upon feelings and fear rather than facts. The need to hold something in one hand and open a knife with the other comes up more often than many people think, particularly in farming and animal husbandry settings.

@CallanElliott Жыл бұрын

No, they're based on a desire for control. Fear is merely an excuse to seize said power.

@bendover9813 Жыл бұрын

And electrical work, 100%. That’s why we use special boxcutters with a longer razor, let’s us push out a 2-3 inch blade one handed, has it lock, and then we can slide it back in with one hand.

@legallyfree2955 Жыл бұрын

Also search and rescue as well has HVAC technicians that install duct work in roof cavities (crawling around in roof trusses you very often get in a position where you only have 1 hand free)

@zatoth13 Жыл бұрын

They are also based on anecdotal evidence. Some politician heard someone can do something with a weapon, founded or unfounded, and they are writing the prohibition into a bill

@mickthebandit Жыл бұрын

Single hand opening is a necessary feature, if you only HAVE one hand

@movezig5 Жыл бұрын

I think these kind of laws only exist so politicians can make themselves look good. They're also good for scaring people--if you can make people think they're in danger and _you_ can protect them, a lot of them will let you get away with anything.

@Horvath_Gabor 10 ай бұрын

Call me weird, but this kind of reminds me of the Japanese laws about censoring genitals. It is entirely meaningless, but it doesn't get revoked, because there's no politician who would want to have their names associated with this "taboo subject". That said, I personally think these weapon bans in particular had much more to do with kids playing with them and injuring each other and themselves, and it was easier to just blanket-ban them than to try to regulate them so that little Billy wouldn't burst his testicles while doing a totally radical nunchuck move, dude!

@Agenamigo 5 ай бұрын

That’s how politicians support gun industry.

@darktoranaga Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, I, of course, made some nunchucks to play with my friends. They, obviously, made their own. And we managed to hit one another or ourselves, by accident. We all survived. We also used sticks as swords, and hit each other with those on purpose. We still survived.

@RespectMyAuthoritaah Жыл бұрын

It is amazing what kids will do. LOL

@paulgoogol2652 Жыл бұрын

Except for Kenny.

@milire2668 4 ай бұрын

@@paulgoogol2652 ... n timmy ended up in a wheelchair

@charliericker274 Жыл бұрын

The other thing to consider is that by making it illegal you are actually making them more attractive for younger people. I for one had all of these items as a teenager, specifically because they were considered dangerous. I of course didn't admit it at the time, I just thought they were cool, but the cool factor came from the fact that they were considered so dangerous as to be banned.

@DH-xw6jp Жыл бұрын

That is the sole reason i bought a switchblade and a "Novelty Brass Paperweight" (no, mom. They aren't brass knuckles. See, it says so right on the box!) As a teen. They were cool and illicit.

@StarshadowMelody Жыл бұрын

@@DH-xw6jp Did you actually use it as a paperweight?

@jellekastelein7316 Жыл бұрын

Your point on taboos is definitely true in my personal experience. My parents hate weapons of any kind and made it clear that they were frowned upon, so naturally I became fascinated with these strange objects and started a sword like object collection with a friend when I was about 8. Now I have antique ones. They still don't like it but I'm an adult now so, haha, I win.

@DH-xw6jp Жыл бұрын

@@StarshadowMelody i actually did, more as an excuse to display it out in the open then actual need of a paperweight though. I sat it on top of a stack of video game maps and walk throughts/cheat codes that i had printed out at the library (back in the day before we had super computers in our pockets lol).

@ub-4630 Жыл бұрын

Well then you misunderstood as well because it's not banned because they're more dangerous. It's banned because people, on record, has done stupid things with them.

@Edramon53 Жыл бұрын

I always thought many of these bans came from the ‘won’t somebody think of the kids’ attitude. Some lawmakers saw kids (including their own) emulating ninjas from TV and didn’t like it or try to understand it. (Ninja Turtles and a film called ‘Ninja Kids Phantom Force’ are the ones I remember liking). It’s a lot easier to make laws banning things than to repeal them.

@SpecJack15 Жыл бұрын

Which I attribute to dumb liberalism.

@Tennouseijin Жыл бұрын

So... it's like a parent who forbids his children from playing with 'dangerous' toys, except the parent happens to be a politician, whose word is law, quite literally... so they go all out.

@nephicus339 Жыл бұрын

But then the Jackass movies came out........

@robo5013 Жыл бұрын

That's exactly why most 'ninja' weapons were banned because kids were playing with them.

@MDM1992 Жыл бұрын

@@robo5013 I'm not buying that bullshit for a second.

@bogdanvasut8915 Жыл бұрын

Related to the self harm part, i have and use a lot of knives, but the worst cut I ever got was from a potato slicer / wonder grater, the kind you could buy from teleshopping channels in the '90s

@barnettmcgowan8978 Жыл бұрын

I owned multiple butterfly knives as a teen and never cut myself, even though I practiced with them all the time. I've cut myself on all maner of construction tools. A friend also stabbed me with a fountain pen in art class. I have the ink dot to this day.

@Dowlphin 10 ай бұрын

@@barnettmcgowan8978 Mighty pen. 😉 Artists know. 😄

@ckl9390 Жыл бұрын

2:42 This reminds me of many years ago when we still had a computer store in town. The store has about half a dozen customers in it, most of them locals, and someone non-local was buying a pair of headphones and wanted to try them on. The store clerk looked around for a pair of scissors that wasn't there, then reached for their multi-tool (I know he usually had one and used it regularly) but it wasn't there. This was over the course of about five or so seconds and by the time he didn't find any scissors and realised he'd left his multi-tool somewhere else, all the other patrons, myself included, had pulled our knives and offered it to be used. The knives ranged from 3" folding pocket knives, through multi-tools that included a knife, to hunting knives. The non-local was a little surprised but not irked at almost half a dozen knives sprouting around them (all presented handle first) and his answer was around the lines of "I guess that's cultural thing here" and borrowed one of them to cut into the packaging.

@davidvondoom2853 Жыл бұрын

I remember, when I was a teen, wanting to buy a ninja sword and finding out they were illegal in Canada. Shurikens too! The owner of the martial arts supply store I went to said I could try shipping one from the states, but there was only a 30% chance it would slip by customs and wasn't worth trying (probably 0% these days, with the state of the border now). The idea that a samurai sword is perfectly fine, but a ninja sword is bad, because it's ''an assassin's weapon'' was absolutely ridiculous to me. As if the only thing stopping me from murdering someone was the fact that my weapon didn't have the word ''ninja'' in it! "On no, I want to kill someone, but all I have is this samurai sword. No murder for me, I guess." As if owning a certain kind of blade or throwing weapon will incite violence in the owner or make them join a gang or something. Complete nonsense!!! 🙄

@vipoerx4532 Жыл бұрын

You don't remember the Muramasa?! That things real i reckon, all ninjato's are cursed blades that make their wielder kill everything in sight.

@xursed7990 Жыл бұрын

What is a ninja sword? I'm pretty sure swords are legal here unless you are carrying it around for a stupid reason.

@chrisvalleroy Жыл бұрын

The Ninjatō is essentially a Katana with a straight edge but shorter blade. There’s basically no historical evidence that it was actually a real weapon used by shinobi. So yeah it was “invented” in the 20th century, though it is theorized to be based on the Chokutō which was the sword used before the invention of the Katana

@aidancolyer7924 Жыл бұрын

The Logic in The UK is that the gangs switched weapons. Our armed response time is super quick. Hear shot within ten minutes a swarm of armed cops are there. so gangs went for cheap asian style swords for executions. quiet and effective. most other swords are same rules as knives (they are just big ones) I've carried a full on sharp longsword through the street in a major town but I had reason. same with airsoft. carry with reason. you don't need to randomly carry a blade in a city or town. countryside is different so are the rules and implementation of the law. More reasons in the countryside so more leeway.

@robertkarp2070 Жыл бұрын

In Canada you don't have an equivalent to our 2nd Amendment. That's why Justine Trudeau stated that you have no right to defend yourself with a firearm, even if you're being attacked by someone with a firearm. Justine Trudeau is a Klaus Schwab protege. I've been to Canada, you're all lots of fun to be around and friendly, I loved it there but Justine Trudeau is a threat to your way of life and has taken some tyrannical actions. Actions that make Klaus Schwab proud. Justine Trudeau has even expressed admiration for China's form of governing.

@TrangleC Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in West Germany in the early 90s, balisong/butterfly knifes were all the rage for boys in 7th grade. All the girls were playing around with snap-bracelets and the boys were twirling around balisong knifes. They were like Yo-Yos to us. The teachers would sometimes confiscate them when we got too annoying during a lesson, but then give them back to us afterwards. It is crazy to me that they are forbidden now, even for adults.

@blondequijote Жыл бұрын

Dude I'm American and love guns, but to me the crazy part is teachers just confiscating the knives and giving them back like it was chewing gum. Believe it or not, weapons in school is a major no-no here.like grounds for expulsion bad

@TrangleC Жыл бұрын

@@blondequijote Yeah. Rural Germany back then was just a different world. Not much immigration compared to today, low crime rates and strong social cohesion. It was just unthinkable that we would actually do anything bad with those knives. Call me a racist, but I think it is obvious that weapons aren't the problem, people are the problem and that means certain types of people. Diversity is not a strength, it is a great weakness. You could hand a loaded handgun to everybody, every man, woman and child in a place like Japan or Iceland and nothing bad would happen. Can't say the same about "diverse" and "culturally enriched" places.

@blondequijote Жыл бұрын

@TrangleC diversity is a tradeoff. America is a cultural powerhouse because of the diverse cultures that contributed something to it. The big cultural divide is between rural and city ppl though, same as anywhere else.

@TrangleC Жыл бұрын

@@blondequijote Don't overestimate what diversity did for culture either. What made the USA a cultural powerhouse is Hollywood and Hollywood is totally controlled by a tiny, wealthy minority who made Hollywood big by making white movies about white people and whenever they "spiced it up" with other cultures, they were peddling silly cliches and caricatures of cultures and places they didn't know or care much about. Minstrel shows, black face, a few token Latinos and Asians. That is what made them big and successful, not actual diversity and other cultures. Hollywood too is losing appeal, success and influence since it started going "diverse" and woke.

@iantaakalla8180 Жыл бұрын

Also, USA is not even diverse. It might have been at some point but basically we are the fifty divided states, and it gets less diverse every day. Furthermore, these city/rural areas, as a result, are irreconcilable. I also do not think there is any way to reverse this. In a very real sense, the USA was never united and required a class to subjugate, and now that it can’t be a race it will be a class

@brianhull2407 Жыл бұрын

Aside from the knives (I’m genuinely as perplexed as you on that), I think that part of the reason for the discrepancy is that we see them as “foreign”, so people fear them more than they should and don’t have lots of families who have passed them down over the generations.

@simrock_ 6 ай бұрын

Germany is fun as well in this regard: - Two-Hand opening knives are fine - One-Hand opening knives are fine to own, but not to carry, unless you have a good reason to (like you're going sailing for example or need it for you job, but if in doubt that's a court issue) - Fixed knives are fine, as long as they're below 12cm - A Leatherman with a one-hand open knife attached is fine to own and carry, as it is generally classified as a tool - A machete of any length is fine to own and carry (even in pedestrian zones or whatever) since it is classified as a tool - A sword of the same length is fine to own, but not carry - A generic dagger is fine to own, but not carry (unless under 12cm) - A bayonet of the same length as the previous dagger is illegal to own (without a permit), as it is classified as a weapon (of war)

@darkwinter6028 Жыл бұрын

“We have to be seen to be DOING SOMETHING!!!1!” - legislators everywhere. 🙄

@SergioLeonardoCornejo Жыл бұрын

Legality varies between countries, but gardening tools are mostly legal worldwide and they're effective enough for what you need. Trust me. I've cut tree branches with a machete. If I ever need a short ranged self defense tool, the machete is my choice. Kitchenware works too.

@theredknight9314 Жыл бұрын

What’s funny is that nunchucks are a farming tool turned weapon. And now they are illegal. And the only reason they exist is because peasants in Japan couldn’t own weapons. Bahahah

@micheal5973 Жыл бұрын

@@theredknight9314 not really. Nunchucks are a modern invention just cause they look cool doing tricks. The farming tool your thinking of was the threshing flail which was a big staff instead of the puny things that are a disgrace to the much more combat effective stick.

@Candlemancer Жыл бұрын

@@micheal5973 there were small, one handed threshing flails too.

@Candlemancer Жыл бұрын

Billhook is my preference. Both the one handed version and the long pole version for pruning high up tree limbs. They used to be the weapon of choice for an entire *class* of professional soldiers in medieval England (billmen)

@Wizardbeard91 Жыл бұрын

As a chef that's worked in many kitchens I always say I feel bad for someone who tries to rob the place or cause problems even if they have a gun 6 dudes with hot metal oils and big knives will win lol

@dustinholland6700 Жыл бұрын

I live in Ohio, and fortunately none of this is illegal here. There are no banned knives here at all, the only exception is that you can't carry a ballistic knife on you. I use my balasongs for work all the time because it's easier to switch between grips one handed while on a ladder. I also used to keep my nunchucks in my car as a defense weapon because of its potential nonlethality until I realized how absolutely impractical that is.

@ckl9390 Жыл бұрын

That demonstrates the utility of switchblades, gravity knives, and balasongs in real work situations where you only have one hand to open the knife. This case alone should be taken as proof that the statement of "no reasonable use other than injuring people" is false and should be taken as reason to repeal said law in various jurisdictions.

@dustinholland6700 Жыл бұрын

@@ckl9390 I've always thought that arguing about "how quickly a blade deploys" I the stupidest, most illogical knife argument there's is. You know what deploys faster than any switchblade, otf, balisong, gravity knife, spring open, etc? Literally any normal old fixed blade knife! How quickly a folding knife unfolds is irrelevant when I can just pull out a full knife, already open.

@seamusrichardson6011 Жыл бұрын

My favorite one of the dumb laws in my area is a ban on a tool that adds weight to the end of a rope to allow for better throwing (mainly to toss lines to other boats). Slings are still legal and far more practical a weapon compared to "a roughly foot-long rope loop with a weight"

@tom.m 10 ай бұрын

Pure speculation, but I wonder if that law was specifically made to target motorcycle clubs. A lot of guys I used to know carried something along those lines to break windows and mirrors of motorists who didn't want to share the road.

@lostpony4885 Жыл бұрын

Statiscally the most used murder weapon is a "steak knife" (stat from a chief of police during an investigation class at junior college) so crimes dont really use those forbidden weapons much.

@methuselah8885 Жыл бұрын

I think that's just a convenience thing. Everyone owns kitchen knives so that's naturally going to pop up more in statistics than crossbow enthusiasts going crazy.

@willkrummeck Жыл бұрын

@@methuselah8885 yes, it is like that, before the knife it was stick and before that stone.

@Dowlphin 10 ай бұрын

@@methuselah8885 I imagine social credit score being too low could mean you are not allowed to prepare your own food.

@Sanxioned1 Жыл бұрын

The thing that still blows my mind is the legality of illegality of body armour in Ontario. Literally in the past month, there's been several stabbings or knife related muggings and "swarmings". Yes, a plate of steel on my chest won't protect my head, but it will 100 percent stop a knife. Batshit insane that we can't even carry armour. Now I'm just always "weight training" with my plates in. Won't stop a bullet, but will stop a knife.

@mathewfitzpatrick5645 Жыл бұрын

Ah shoot, is that why I couldn't order an Ops-core out of that province?

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

Wonder what the law on mail armor is? I seem to remember Metatron saying he wore a mail shirt under his clothes because stabbings were getting out of hand in Europe a while back.

@kikixchannel Жыл бұрын

@@logicplague I don't know about some other countries, but in Poland, last I checked, body armor was legal so long as it was not 'military grade'. What a 'military grade' constitutes is basically a stamp on its registration into circulation, so you can legally posses a 'civilian' bulletproof vest that beats the bulletproof vest of the military, just because it wasn't certified as made for military or police.

@DH-xw6jp Жыл бұрын

You might be surprised by how bullet resistant the weight training plates can be. Demolition Ranch did a video testing it out, if i remember correctly, it stopped all handgun rounds plus some lower caliber rifle rounds.

@haidner Жыл бұрын

Body armour prohibition is a national law in Canada. I remember when this came out and HEMA practitioners, reenactors, and LARPers were really concerned. The courts made an exception for all of them.

@nordoceltic7225 Жыл бұрын

The ONLY criteria for any of these bans is, does the weapon scare Karen? If so, it will be banned. But Karen was told if she took her FUDD husband's Buck Folder and 1911 away, he was going to leave her. So those are allowed. The exception is weapons Karen doesn't remember exists in the modern day, like historical swords, or doesn't know they exist yet.

@philovidya8567 Жыл бұрын

To add on to the getting hurt part: getting hurt is part of life, it makes you tougher and oftentimes the actions leading up to it are fun and build great memories. If we avoided doing things out of fear getting hurt we would never accomplish anything. To a greater extent this applies to suffering as well.

@GallowglassAxe Жыл бұрын

Great video as always. So when I was a teenager my dad gave me a balisong and it had been my primary carry knife for years. I never hurt myself with it even doing tricks because I was always cautious and I didn't keep the blade razor sharp. It was sharp enough to open boxes, cut weeds, and such. I found that opening and closing it one handed was actually extremely useful. One example would be I was helping my grandparent in trimming the ivy off the side of their house. I would use the knife to pry the vine off the brick. I was standing on a ladder leaning against the building. Since I only need one hand I could keep using my free hand to keep myself stable like holding the ladder or the building itself.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

Carrying knives is an odd one here - it's contextual and very much what you can get away with. I grew up rural and pretty much every adult male - and a number of adult females - I knew had a sheath knife on their belt because you frequently needed to cut things and occasionally even quickly and humanely kill a stricken animal. The towns I visited serviced the rural areas and the farmers usually didn't bother taking off their knives if they were just popping into town to grab something. No one really batted an eyelid seeing people wandering around town with a culling knife on their belt. That's changed now - people have got less tolerant, more paranoid and "precious" and would probably think they were being invaded if a farmer came into town without taking their knife off. We can carry knives here if we have a good reason to. What we can carry depends on the reason. On a farm or up in the bush, I could easily get away with a large sheath knife or machete worn visibly on the belt because there's generally plenty of reasons for such a large knife. In town, I can get away with folding pocket knives that aren't visible (and therefore not scaring the poor wittle townies) that I need to use to perform any of the routine tasks that require a knife blade or one the various screwdrivers, bottle openers, corkscrews, scissors, tooth picks, tweezers, awls, pliers etc found in the pocket knives and pocket tools. And frankly, I don't see any practical difference between a switchblade or balisong and any other singleblade pocket knife except for convenience of opening - it's not like there aren't other one-hand-opening knives available that are perfectly legal. The hatred for switchblades and balisongs is nothing but negative associations and hysteria. "Gangs used/use them" - well, gangs used/use cars, motorcycles, clothes, food, tools and numerous other things. Banning things based on how a minority has used them is ridiculous - especially when it's that particular *use* that's illegal.

@Pooknottin Жыл бұрын

Many of these prohibitions are simply populist knee-jerk policies to please the masses after isolated incidents. In the UK we have that down to a fine art. Perhaps the most absurd is the banning of 'realistic' toy guns after an incident where a man was shot by police for not dropping a table leg when ordered to.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@Pooknottin Yeah, we have and have had a number of populist knee-jerk policies - like the "Scary-Looking Gun" rules. First of those was the special licences to own Scary-Looking Guns as a reaction to a nutter who did a mass shooting and a Scary-Looking Gun was in his arsenal. And then there was the outright banning and extremely expensive buy-back of all Scary-Looking Guns as a reaction to the nutter that shot up the mosques in Christchurch.

@Pooknottin Жыл бұрын

@@wolf1066 Sorry to learn that. It's a shame you're plagued by the same kind of stupid as us.

@MikeDCWeld Жыл бұрын

Good point. We should immediately ban clothes for public safety.

@Pooknottin Жыл бұрын

@@MikeDCWeld You jest, but were it not for the underlying prudishness of our political culture in the UK, that might be considered a good idea.

@squeaiker Жыл бұрын

Felt the: "Why are you carrying a knife?!" / "Why don't you? You clearly need one", in my soul.

@BudgetMechanic Жыл бұрын

Oh my, has it been 10 years since I started watching ur vids? First video I saw from skall was the video where he was talking about balisong bans, and since then ive been as subscriber and watching daily videos from skall

@kaji9704 Жыл бұрын

I remember the guys at my school all getting butterfly knives just *because* they were illegal. So the law is probably doing the exact thing it's trying to prevent

@dj1NM3 Жыл бұрын

In NSW, the funny situation of butterfly knives being on the "prohibitted weapons" list, but fishing shops selling plastic handled "totally not" butterfly knives with zero repercussions.

@MDM1992 Жыл бұрын

@@dj1NM3 good. And so they shouldn't. Your issue shouldn't be the fact these shops are not getting repercussions for selling butterfly knives, but the fact they are prohibited at all in the first place. They are no less practical than any other blade and are not purely human stabbing machines. There is literally nothing you can do with a butterfly knife that you can't do with almost any other knife in existence, legal or illegal.

@dj1NM3 Жыл бұрын

@@MDM1992 ...except throwing it away while trying to do a flashy move opening the damn thing.

@Seelenschmiede Жыл бұрын

In my teens, everyone wanted one of them because they were illegal. Top job, lawmakers, top job!

@ANukeWithLegs Жыл бұрын

Everything legal here in Austria. Only exception make "Hidden" weapons that resembles a object other than the weapon it is and Knuckle Dusters. Besides these two exceptions everything is perfectly fine.

@Donnerwamp Жыл бұрын

*cries in german Waffenrecht*

@fixinggood4595 Жыл бұрын

that and fully automatic firearms are also banned, but in general the austria weapons law is quite nice.

@marcusott5054 Жыл бұрын

@@fixinggood4595 A curious exception: "Pump Guns" (Pump-action shotguns) are Category A (forbidden weapons / war materiel), but semi-auto shotguns can be had as Category B (self-loading firearms / handguns). Also: Lever-actions shotguns are Category C (Freely availably at 18+). Make sense of that.

@fixinggood4595 Жыл бұрын

@@marcusott5054 I think that exception is becauce of Pumpgun Ronnie, a bank robber from the 80s who robbed multiple banks with a Pumpgun and a Ronald Reagan Mask.

@datpudding5338 Жыл бұрын

@@Donnerwamp felt that :c

@danielkeslerjr4407 9 ай бұрын

Cracks me up that u can legally open carry a fucking sword, but a pair of stick attached with a cord/chain? TO THE GULAG WITH U

@DanielGaston Жыл бұрын

Good video, I also liked that you distinguished at the end between laws that ban possession/ownership versus laws that ban carry

@Drejzer Жыл бұрын

The rumour about nunchucks prohibition in Poland dates to PRL (aka the times when Communism and Russia were "overseeing" Poland) era coupled with Bruce Lee mania. When some guy using a nunchaku beat up a group of militiamen so they added them to the list of weapons (alongside guns).

@TheDeadEyeSamurai Жыл бұрын

Goes to Russia with nunchucks "Fear me, if you dare!"

@arx3516 Жыл бұрын

I'm imagining Bruce standing in tge red square facing the whoe russian army, tanks and all, asking: .

@edgarburlyman738 Жыл бұрын

Someone give that man an honorary 10th dan black belt

@vincemoran587 Жыл бұрын

You will find that it was Polish communists overseeing Poland at that time..... They have a fascist problem now...... Facts. Cope.

@user-ct8dm7ez4r Жыл бұрын

@@arx3516 that's literally the plot of hong-kong 97 videogame.

@macieksen9800 Жыл бұрын

"-why do you carry knife?! -why don't you?" damn, happens all the time

@det.bullock4461 Жыл бұрын

LOL, I often carry with me a swiss army knife. I remember when I first went to uni and I helped my roomates fix stuff: they gawked at me when I used it to cut some plastic ties. It probably helped that I'm a pudgy nerd who might as well have written "doormat" on his forehead so they didn't think me the type to carry one.

@methuselah8885 Жыл бұрын

@@det.bullock4461 similar thing here. I almost got expelled from middle school because a teacher found out I had a multitool in my backpack.

@realdragon Жыл бұрын

I carry knife but not for self defense because in knife fight the loser is dead and winner is bleeding out on the way to the hospital

@Aliyah_666 Жыл бұрын

@@realdragonNot in all cases but yeah there is an increase in danger when both people are armed with knives. However if you are armed with a weapon alone you're the one that is the danger.

@TravelatorH8r Жыл бұрын

I've been subscribed for over a year and I haven't had any of your videos pop up on my feed in like six months

@CowboyBebop444 Жыл бұрын

I remember the very first post-apocalyptic movie I saw as a kid (starring the late Yul Brynner, the late Max Von Sydow, and the late William Smith as the leader if the bad guys)...in the beginning of the movie, Yul Brynner fought off with his knife a bunch of crazed street people who were weilding wrenches, hammers and hatchets

@mgn567 Жыл бұрын

I would be more afraid of a rock thrown at me than a shuriken thrown at me

@datkhornedog899 Жыл бұрын

A rock is blunt, so it gets straight to the point. A shuriken is pointy, but it's bluntly unimpressive.

@penhullwolf5070 Жыл бұрын

British citizen carrying throwing stars: I just thought they were cool and I was intending to throw them into logs. Judge: Clearly you were intending Ninja Naughtiness! Off to the Nick with you! British citizen carrying a pack of darts.: I was on my way to be pub for a game. Judge:Sorry to have bothered you, on you go Squire.....

@majinkevinci Жыл бұрын

Also there's something even more letal than shurikens that isn't banned, a weighty steel ornate ball, commonly referred as throwing pommels.

@Kilo6Charlie Жыл бұрын

The argument I always heard, and mostly just took as fact despite never verifying it since it made sense to me, was that it was more a case of self-safety. A Switchblade specifically was used when explaining it to me, since the blade shoots out point-first at the press of a button being spring-loaded, there was a chance of accidentally triggering it when it's say, in your pocket, stabbing yourself in the leg, where a bunch of major blood vessels are. A gravity knife could fall out of a pocket and open, leading to accidental injury, etc. A folding knife that won't snap open when dropped, but can be opened smoothly with one hand, doesn't carry that risk and so would be permitted. Again, it made sense to me at the time (I was like, 12) and I just never thought to question it after that. Honestly it still makes sense to me, but I've gotten a much more cynical attitude towards that kinda prohibition ("well if they're that dumb then let em hurt themselves. Being stupid should hurt.")

@silverjohn6037 Жыл бұрын

These weapons are specifically banned when they become popular or are perceived to be popular with street gangs. It lets the police confiscate them when they do a random search (regardless of how legal or justified that search was) without having to go through the expense of having to take them to court. So the bans don't have to make sense because it's not about them being more dangerous so long as the mall ninjas think they're cool.

@markfergerson2145 Жыл бұрын

Such bans also provide an excuse to arrest the person in possession of the banned item.

@alexanders.1359 Жыл бұрын

When or where have nunchakus or throwing stars ever been popular in street gangs? I mean of course you may get a higher then average number of crazy weapon collectors and people who are into violence when you raid a gang. And some of those might have (amongst other things... Maybe LOTS of other things!) some nunchakus lying around in their collection. But I never heard of a gang, dominating the streets of anywhere, mostly by their use of throwing stars and ninja weapons!

@Skallagrim Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's part of the problem... Random searches and looking for "excuses" to make arrests is something we'd be better off without.

@littlekong7685 Жыл бұрын

@@alexanders.1359 My school (Junior high) had an issue with about 20 boys who were fighting with about 20 other boys from another school. They used homemade nunchucks, throwing stars, and crude knives. They kept jumping each other in the streets in non-fatal ambushes. They decided to do a rumble, and 5 kids ended up in hospital, 1 lost an eye and 1 was paralyzed from the waist down when he was knocked off a rail by a nunchuck into a dumpster and hit his back on the lip. They watched ninja movies and 80's gang movies and thought it looked cool. After this the police did a raid in our school and found the homemade weapons and arrested the kids for possession (as they couldn't easily get them for being in the fights without confessions or witness statements). I am sure these laws let them scare the kids into pointing fingers at the ringleaders and at who put the kids in the hospital.

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

@@alexanders.1359 Hollywood

@chrisball3778 Жыл бұрын

It's kind of a forgotten footnote of history, but there was actually an international moral panic about martial arts movies and weapons in the 1980's. There were some media reports of kids injuring eachother trying to imitate stuff they'd seen in Kung Fu movies and it got blown out of proportion, resulting in many of these weird weapon bans. A 'steel manned' explanation might be that this was because of concerns about kids putting eachother's eyes out with them, rather than because they'd be used in crime, but there was definitely an element of anti-Asian racism too. Martial Arts movies were subject to increased censorship and more restricted age ratings as well. Perhaps the silliest part (and the reason I know about this) is that here in the UK, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got renamed 'Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles', as the word 'ninja' was considered too controversial for kids' TV. They even dubbed 'hero' into the theme song.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember that moral panic (and laughing at the fact that UK politicians forced TMNT to be censored) - it briefly overshadowed our collective fears of being wiped out in a nuclear holocaust. The 80s, eh. (smh) At least we had a decent soundtrack for the decade.

@mattbronsil6336 9 ай бұрын

Kershaw came out with a spring-loaded knife that is activated by simply pushing the thumb stud with minimal force. The switchblade was described in the law as a knife that comes out of the handle with the push of a button. The Kershaw knives were legal. A brilliant work around the law.

@ChiggaChiggaBruh Жыл бұрын

The really funny thing is that in Canada spring loaded knives are totally illegal, but spring assisted knives are perfectly fine, that means the only difference is whether the activation mechanism is directly connected to the blade or not.

@GUNNER67akaKelt Жыл бұрын

Fully automatic BB guns used to be banned in MI, USA. Rifles shorter than 26" are still banned. I long ago read an article about stupid gun laws. The one that I remember in particular, though I don't remember what state it was from, was one that prohibited the carrying of a 4ft. (122cm) long rifle concealed upon your person (not sure it was 4 ft. but it was something ridiculously big to be carrying it concealed).

@helnkel3814 Жыл бұрын

Damn, no AT rifle out on the town today :(

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

"Rifles shorter than 26" are still banned." Here in New Zealand, any firearm with an overall length of less than 762mm - 30" - is classified as a *pistol* and is therefore illegal unless you belong to a pistol shooting club and have a pistol endorsement on your firearms licence or you have a "collector" endorsement on your firearms licence (and said "pistol" is covered by your collection parameters). So if you cut down any rifle or shotgun to less than 762mm, you're in possession of an illegal weapon and can be charged accordingly.

@Master_Yoda1990 Жыл бұрын

@@wolf1066 what if you had a pistol with a 30" barrel, would it then be classified as a rifle?

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@Master_Yoda1990 Presuming that the rest of the pistol (frame, grip etc) puts the overall length more than 30", then yes, it would be classified as a rifle. Nooowwwww... if it was a semiautomatic firearm and *not* a .22lr or .22Mag rimfire with a magazine capacity of no more than 10 rounds, it would *still* be banned under the new regulations that came into effect due to Ardern's childish and expensive knee-jerk reaction in the wake of the Christchurch shootings. I suspect they would also get shitty if it were a 6-shot double action revolver, to be honest in anything other than a .22 rimfire calibre. But, yeah, a single shot or 10-shot .22lr semiautomatic pistol with a 30" barrel would be a rifle.

@Master_Yoda1990 Жыл бұрын

@@wolf1066 I'm sorry, that just sounds arbitrary and ridiculous. I mean not saying laws in US aren't, like the government saying a certain grip style or whether the stock and hand guard is wood or not changes the firearm.

@LawStudentsNightmare Жыл бұрын

could you imagine a mugger threatening you with nunchucks? I mean sure it probably won’t happen but still it’s an interesting thought experiment.

@tarille1043 Жыл бұрын

Then you pull out a stick!

@Belphegorite Жыл бұрын

Seems laughable. But if he's wearing a helmet and jockstrap... now I'm worried!

@aengusdedanann181 Жыл бұрын

he would be able to take my money... as i am dying of laughter on the ground

@Intellyellthismyoldchannel Жыл бұрын

I'm always happy to see you still own the foldable big "pocket" knife.

@meltdown537 10 ай бұрын

Spot on. Thanks for this video.

@drudgenemo7030 Жыл бұрын

I was in the construction trades. I've definitely been hanging off a column/wall/beam and needed a knife. Kinda handy being able to use one hand to deploy it when you are 100+ foot in the air. Looked at different styles to find something simple and durable and actually liked the balisong. Unfortunately it's not entirely legal. So instead I carry a small fixed blade which is legal

@LionAstrology Жыл бұрын

A balisong could make an awesome electricians knife as well. Flatten the tip a little and got a flat blade screwdriver tip..perfect for wall plates etc. And being able to put a larger wire in between the handle and blade with the grip just opened enough to fit the wire for stripping would also be handy and safer in many cases. You could probably have cat 5 notches etc. As well for stripping.

@papanoble8378 Жыл бұрын

Wtf. I’ve been looking at balisong videos today and Skallagrim makes one? Things work in weird ways haha

@ANukeWithLegs Жыл бұрын

It's cause they can read our minds

@Kraakesolv Жыл бұрын

I didn't look at balisongs, nunchucs or shurikens today. Yet here we are.

@gottfriedmayrock1967 Жыл бұрын

The Optinel was cool....and useful. Since a swiss pocketknive foldet accidently I like arrestable blades, forbidden now in Germany. I hate short blades, awful to use cutting a slice of bread. Not difficult to slice open people using a short bade, most of the time I prefer the former use. Knives that open easy using one hand can sage your live when you have only one free to use, occures sometimes while climbing or diving etc..

@mr.factoid105 Жыл бұрын

The other weird thing is that my carry gun license does not authorize me to carry knives. The state of Massachusetts has determined that I can carry a hand gun, but I can't be trusted with a knife or a stick.

@Reishadowen Жыл бұрын

I just keep remembering the movie "Demolition Man" more and more these days. "Can I get some salt?" "Uh, salt was deemed unhealthy, and therefore not good for you. Hence, illegal."

@Shindai Жыл бұрын

You're basically describing Demolition Man at the end there re: the extreme nanny state that bans all potentially harmful things xD I only recently rewatched that movie and realised what a dystopia utopia can be. Also, hot damn that opinel (I think?) is a beast! I didn't know they made them that size, pocket machete indeed!

@logicplague Жыл бұрын

I remember my aunt and mother saying that would be the future one day, I told them they were crazy, that things would never get that bad.....oof.

@dr.burtgummerfan439 Жыл бұрын

It's no coincidence that Demolition Man was set in California.

@Rajamak Жыл бұрын

A ninja star is more of a tool to keep multiple attackers at distance by threat in order to escape than an assassins weapon.

@RespectMyAuthoritaah Жыл бұрын

All my ninja stars are dangerous looking with a black powder coating and so are deadly that if I can get close enough to you to I can scratch you repeatedly. And it will really hurt. LOL

@theeasyknight8776 Жыл бұрын

Finally! I was waiting for This my Young apprentice! Oh wait wrong franchise… No seriously i rlly missed those videos. I remember the First ones of those you Made in a knife store if i remember correctly.

@communisticus191 Жыл бұрын

Its funny that you can also get knives that open "automatically" when drawn that are perfectly legal, and are honestly faster than gravity/button knives. Any folding knife with a little hook on the outside edge of the folding mechanism can be opened by your pocket if you pull forward when you draw

@Kraakesolv Жыл бұрын

You can make it on any knife with a hole or thumb stud too; remove the thumb stud and fasten a zip tie through the hole. Both my Spydercos and one Cold Steel (removed stud) has it and it works great.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

This hits on so many levels. Here in New Zealand, I can legally purchase a Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger or a Ka-Bar combat knife but I cannot legally purchase a "switchblade" or balisong - because the former two are "OK" while the latter two are "only for attacking people" - despite the fact that the latter two are basically no different from any pocket knife except you can open them conveniently with one hand. I can purchase one-hand-opening lock-blade pocket knives that use a hole in the blade, like any of the Spyderco range - and do, because it's hard to open a conventional pocket knife using both hands when one of those hands is busy holding on to something. One-hand-opening knives are the most useful things around. I have a Leatherman pocket tool because it has a range of screwdrivers and it has pliers. I have a Victorinox Swiss Army knife because it has a corkscrew that the Leatherman does not have. When I need a knife, 9 times out of 10 I grab the Leatherman - *even though the blades on the Victorinox are superior* - because I can quickly and easily open either of the blades one-handed while I would have to use both hands and fiddle a bit to get a blade open on the Swiss Army knife. The blades on the Leatherman might not be the greatest but they'll certainly open a box or cut packing straps and that's generally what I'm needing - and I don't want to have to muck about in order to do so. As to carrying knives in public, you can do so if you can convince the police - and possibly a magistrate, if it goes that far - that you have a legitimate reason to do so. So, in a land where you're allegedly "presumed innocent until proven guilty", you can be accused of carrying a knife for illegal purposes and you have to prove you're not. I'm bloody certain I could find a better excuse to be carrying a balisong or automatic knife than to be carrying a Fairbairn-Sykes or a Ka-Bar... I've not encountered boxes so problematic that they require a dagger or a combat knife, but I've frequently encountered situations where it's not convenient - or even downright dangerous - to let go of something you're holding onto.

@wolfofmagdalene92 Жыл бұрын

You know its funny enough that the argument it's only meant to kill people, any tanto, karambit, military standard/style knife was literally made for that purpose. FFS I wouldn't be surprise if you could carry a god damned bayonet around which I'm sure wasn't solely born out of the need to put a fucking spike on your rifle so you could go from knife and a gun, to FUCK YOU WITH A GOD DAMN BULLET SHOOTING SPEAR GG logic GG

@cavalieroutdoors6036 Жыл бұрын

From an American perspective *every* box is problematic enough to require a Ka-Bar and/or Fairbairn/Sykes. But that's mostly because those are 2 of my favorite knife profiles, second only to a Bowie, and they're insanely fun to use even for mundane things.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@cavalieroutdoors6036 I'm hard pressed to think of *any* knife that isn't fun to use, even for mundane things. Here in New Zealand, you might have difficulty in convincing the judiciary that the boxes are sufficiently "problematic" to warrant a Ka-Bar, Fairbairn-Sykes or Bowie, though😆 Get caught with someone else's TV and stereo in the back of your car and *they* have to *prove* you're guilty of theft. Get caught with even a Victorinox Spartan in your pocket and they get all _Code Napoleon_ on you and the onus is now on *you* to prove you're *_not_* a burglar, mugger or would-be murderer. At one job I got nicknamed "MacGyver" because I always carried a pocket knife (Victorinox Classic SD) on me and I fixed more computers with that than I did with the large comprehensive toolkit they supplied me with... mostly because the SD was small and light and fit easily in my pocket while the toolkit was enormous and heavy and made going through doorways problematic. Did you know that the screwdriver blade on the Victorinox SD fits perfectly across the Torx screws that Compaq got *obsessed* with using on all their computers? As well as being perfect for Pozi- and Philips screws and any small slotted screws, of course. I could could open and disassemble literally *every* computer we had on site with that one screwdriver. When I left that job, they gave me a Victorinox Climber as a farewell gift (which got stolen when my house was burgled). At my current job my reputation is that I always have a Leatherman pocket tool on me and I'm the one to see if you want a desk assembled/disassembled or a whiteboard hung on the wall... (I'm no longer a computer repair technician - I'm not actually employed to maintain desks or hang up whiteboards, either, but I'm closer than the Maintenance team...)

@psycomutt Жыл бұрын

You guys got really screwed over by that shooting a few years ago.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@psycomutt If you're talking about the ones in Christchurch, there wasn't a person in the country that wasn't royally shafted by the government over that. Not only did they penalise a bunch of legal firearms owners who had broken no laws and had previously had to jump through extra hoops and pay extra money, they made *every taxpayer in the country* foot the bill for their "buy up" scheme. When they could have just used the existing, *perfectly adequate* laws, to really throw the book at the guy who did the shooting.

@Lbamfoe Жыл бұрын

OMG, that lead into the ring was epic. "More likely to be banned the cooler it is. These rings would be totally illegal". I'm dying. 🤣

@thepenultimateninja5797 6 ай бұрын

I agree about the balisong being one of the most secure "lockups" (if you can call it that) of any folding knife design. A good quality balisong with handles made of steel, brass or titanium, and nice thick pivot screws, has a strength approaching that of a fixed blade knife. None of the destructive tests of folding knives I have seen failed at the pivot, it was always the lock. I'm sure it's possible for a pivot to fail, but the locking mechanism always seems to be the weaker point. A balisong doesn't have a lock at all, it has two pivots, making it an incredibly strong design. I'm lucky in that I live in a place where it is legal to carry a balisong, and I do so most of the time. I don't do any of the mall ninja flips, only the basic open and close, and if there are non-knife people around, I will just unfold it with two hands without flipping it at all.

@ManDuderGuy Жыл бұрын

Ahh yes, the old "give up real freedom for imaginary safety" shuffle!

@Gr3nadgr3gory Жыл бұрын

The old give up real safety and security for an illusion that puts you in far more danger in the first place.

@ManDuderGuy Жыл бұрын

@@Gr3nadgr3gory I live in daily fear of Ninja Stars, but nanny state will make it go away if I'm a good boy.

@Incandescentiron Жыл бұрын

Some politicians feel they need to be able to point to a piece of legislation they proposed that "comes down hard on crime to protect our citizens", while not offending most of their constituents. Here in the US, it is easy to outlaw knives without the likelihood of a protest outside your office. Some politicians, on the other hand, can just lie about what they do everyday and their constituents will vote them back into office if told what they want to hear.

@lloydlego6088 Жыл бұрын

I am always amazed that knives and swords are not protected under the 2nd amendment. I mean it says right to bear arms. Arms does not mean guns, it means weapons.

@blackjacka.5097 Жыл бұрын

So, every time a republican bill is out?

@SpiderboyN2Jesus Жыл бұрын

@@lloydlego6088 You make a good point; technically they are protected by the 2nd Amendment. Sadly, many politicians (and even citizens) clearly don't care. After all; they're also trying their darnedest to ban guns, too. And they've had considerable levels of success on that front, as well.

@aengusdedanann181 Жыл бұрын

@@lloydlego6088 they are. as per letter of the law so are tanks and cannons. there just arent many people fighting for them sadly

@OveToranger Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah ! Love the judges take in this story as well !

@kevingray4980 Жыл бұрын

A lot of these laws, at least in the US, were made to help in facilitating "routine stops" while profiling "suspicious types". Even if it's just a misdemeanor, the cop can say "Is that a balisong? Now, lookie here..."

@MasterMask14 Жыл бұрын

Knowing our very intelligent government here in the great white north, they'd see this as an argument to ban all the rest of the "weapons" you've brought up rather than rethink how silly it is that a spring assisted knife is legal but a spring loaded one isn't. Laws that revolve around knives and guns are in large part just optics and fear mongering. Good video Skal, I've had many discussions with my friends about this topic.

@Zetact_ Жыл бұрын

It's a wonderfully brilliant scam. Make it as inconvenient as possible for citizens to defend themselves. Create a positive feedback loop where out of fear they will vote for people who make it more inconvenient for them to defend themselves while not stopping the criminals (heck, you can even release violent criminals from prison if you come up with a good enough excuse). This makes them more reliant on the government for everything and thus unable and unwilling to resist when you push for more authoritarianism.

@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU Жыл бұрын

Its all to just make the sheep feel better about it, so they think they're safe and that the govt. is doing something. Nothing less, nothing more. Also its obviously about control and as you say fearmongering but that goes without saying usually. Thats a norm these days.

@alexisleskinen9870 Жыл бұрын

According to Trudeau a 22lr is all you need. Especially against those grizzlies and polar bears. Alcohol on the other hand which causes more violennt crime and death than any other drug is legal in most countries. Not saying we should ban it but good lord are politicians priorities out of whack. Especially here in the USA where gun crime makes up about 15% of all violent crime yet banning guns comes before banning knives and hammers. Again not saying those should be banned either just weird how politicians get to ignore facts and statistics and ban things based on 'well i think its scary'

@whoelsebutmeofcoursei Жыл бұрын

Absolutely optics and fear mongering. In every single country. It's happening in Brazil now ffs

@thisdude9363 Жыл бұрын

You mean sorta like how Gun Control advocates in the USA base their perception of which guns are the most dangerous off looks, rather than crime statistics?

@motorteeth Жыл бұрын

Runkle Of The Bailey did a great video about folding knives and the legalities of them in Canada. Where you are correct about the laws about them, the authorities can still find ways to consider them illegal. You may not be able to swing it open, but if it's brought to court, they will find the strongest officer that they can to try. If that officer is able to to it, it can mean big trouble for you, regardless of your own ability. Runkle even offers case study on them holding the blade and using the weight of the handle to flip it open. Prosecutors have used that argument to try to incriminate people before and will likely try again. Canadian authorities hate pocket knives and are trying their best to have them all outlawed. Funny how a larger fixed blade in a sheath on your hip will likely get you in less trouble than an old folding knife in your pocket that may have a loose hinge.

@legallyfree2955 Жыл бұрын

I always find it amusing too, cant have knives you can open "too fast", but a fixed blade that is always open? oh well that's fine... So much logic...

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@legallyfree2955 Sadly, this is what happens when you let politicians make decisions that affect normal people.

@legallyfree2955 Жыл бұрын

@@wolf1066 Yeah, another good one that makes me smile, going fishing, 3" folding knife, fine, 3.5" folding locking knife, deadly weapon you psycho, 8" fish filleting knife, perfectly fine.

@wolf1066 Жыл бұрын

@@legallyfree2955 Willing to bet that filleting knife is sharper than any of my pocket knives, too.

@legallyfree2955 Жыл бұрын

@@wolf1066 Pretty hard to fillet a fish with a blunt knife.

@paulh462 Жыл бұрын

It took like 8 yers or something to get another episode of this. I found this channel years ago! On the topic of why is ... or ... banned.

@d_jedi1 Жыл бұрын

RUNKLE!! He's a great guy and seems to be a very knowledgeable lawyer. GREAT channel

@LendriMujina Жыл бұрын

You have a point about things that are easy to make. Even I made a pair of homemade nunchucks as a kid out of parts from a thrown-away tent (the rods being sections of its support poles) that I still own and still hurts like heck.

@johnurbanek1027 Жыл бұрын

I made my first pair from wooden handles off a jump rope, and just tied them together, probably with a short section from the jump rope itself. I've even cut soup can lids into the shape of shuriken, and they would stick into drywall...barely. I had a spear I made from aluminum pipe I found in the woods. I had a tiny bow I made from small stick and rubber bands that I used to shoot pencils with at school. Being a kid is awesome. In high school I sandwiched razor blades between my ID badges that were hung on a lanyard around my neck, I even added washers to it for extra weight for swinging around.

@-__-4186 Жыл бұрын

My Friend from Denmark (ex-cop) pointed interesting law - You can only carry knife that can`t be single-handed opened , and only if You got reason to carry it. Ie : You go for longer walk and carry 2 apples that you want to peel before eating. But then... You land far from home, with knife... and no reason to carry it - as You eaten apples !

@benjaminparent4115 Жыл бұрын

In France it is weirder it is completely illegal to carry a knife, but on the other end a jurisprudence was released stating that carrying a relar sized swiss knife or other common work knife like laguiole or opinel is not a crime because they are traditional French tools

@-__-4186 Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminparent4115 Its insane to create law banning knives. Hurting people is illegal. I use knives everyday and i can cay it saved my life and i hurt noone my entire life. I know how to hurt people with bare hands however - will i be banned from having my hands ?

@jamesnoland7821 Жыл бұрын

14:40 "Nightmarish, dystopian, nanny-state" is one of your best lines ever!

@AC765INDIANA Жыл бұрын

As I am from and live in Indiana, in the early 80s we could buy throwing stars at the county fair at any vendor selling knives and nunchucks and throwing stars as I often did. There was no law on age at the fair back then. I had seen later on that it was illegal to own after 1985 and no one would send them to you through the mail but in Ohio there are martial arts stores that sell them and I am not far from the Ohio border being in south east Indiana. I am going to research this further so I can see what has changed on that restrictive law. Thanks for the video....

@kevingarlick4617 Жыл бұрын

My balisong is the best EDC knife I've ever had, even outside of the cool tricks, it's the quickest and safest knife I own. Thanks for making this vid!

@nathandkreosote9917 Жыл бұрын

If a Balisong is the safest knife you own, I have to wonder what other knives you own? I've never had any of my standard folders or slip joint knives carve my hand up quite like my Bali.

@kevingarlick4617 Жыл бұрын

@Nathan D Kreosote if you just do a quick open wrist flick there is like no danger at all. get my knife open, use it, and close the knife in one motion and it's gone. They're only dangerous when you play with them lol

@nathandkreosote9917 Жыл бұрын

@@kevingarlick4617 If you're not playing with them though then what's the point? Pretty sure the main point of most discussions about Bali's being illegal is that they really aren't very practical and are used more as novelties than tools. If you're just gonna do a simple open to cut a box or something then there are much better options.

@kevingarlick4617 Жыл бұрын

@Nathan D Kreosote maybe cheap mall ninja balis but my kershaw is solid. The idea that they are impractical and just a novelty is just propaganda

@kevingarlick4617 Жыл бұрын

@Nathan D Kreosote here this might make it make more sense. Here's how to open a Bali when you're just trying to work and not be flashy or dangerous kzfaq.infozbIWa7VvifY?feature=share

@RunkleOfTheBailey Жыл бұрын

I agree with everything in this video... and also, I am having a massive heart attack moment seeing my videos here. Huge fan, so I'm just kind of wowed.

@llavoy 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Do you do in person classes?

@nadiamontague722 Жыл бұрын

What's the big knife with a hand gaurd n where do I get one?

@johanw9513 Жыл бұрын

Who, as a kid in the 80s, who loved karate/ninja movies did not hit themselves in the head with a set of homemade nunchakus?

@manuelvasquez4144 Жыл бұрын

Michelangelo was a destructive influence on my first pair of glasses

@petroglyph79 Жыл бұрын

Was a ninja a few times at Halloween.

@velazquezarmouries Жыл бұрын

A mild steel piece with a tip cut into an end is what a lot of people tend to use as concealed weapons here because it is truthly untraceable and socially invisible

@davidmacy411 Жыл бұрын

Something to consider for a future video would be Worf's new weapon in Picard season 3, the Kur'leth. It more or less looks like the Mek'leth but with a much longer blade.

@alixsprallix Жыл бұрын

great video

@travishancock9120 Жыл бұрын

I really hope this video stays up. We need more people to speak sense like this.

@FatBoy42069 Жыл бұрын

Actually balisongs are no longer banned in Illinois we just have to have a firearms license to own them along with switch blades. Throwing stars are still illegal tho.

@MarchalisVan Жыл бұрын

What is the sword at the end? /who makes it? :S

@robintst Жыл бұрын

My brother was into Tae Kwon Do back in the 80s and had ninja stars, nunchucks, and a couple butterfly knifes. They're safely stored in my attic and I keep one of those old knives nearby for opening mail and boxes, it's about as dull as a letter opener at this point. Also... your "gang" pic on the right at 4:04 is from the dance movie Breakin', one of the least violent movies ever made. 😅

@Drejzer Жыл бұрын

Another point for nunchucks: they are a short flail, a common farm tool you might have done at your (great) grandparents farm. Now maybe less common.

@lonesoul663 Жыл бұрын

I found even carrying a simple pocket knife is useful as a handy tool in certain situations.

@Skallagrim Жыл бұрын

For sure. A knife is such an essential tool, with many everyday uses.

@strongperson697 Жыл бұрын

i am new to your channel love the Castle 🏰 set

@kermitthorson9719 7 ай бұрын

@3:33 i also recently purchased the boker magnum folding kukri, its fun

@Gwagia Жыл бұрын

Omg, as i fellow Canadian i was looking at knife carry laws recently and i was flabbergasted. This is very timely indeed.

@evilmandrake Жыл бұрын

I keep 2 knifes on my person at any time. A swiss army knife for a variety of basic tasks, and a sharper, longer flip blade with a serrated bit at the base. I went camping with my mom who complained I "didn't need such a wicked-looking knife," only to immediately need the serrated edge for something I can't quite recall, because I was too busy being smug about my "wicked blade." It must of been red twine to tie off the woodcutting area. So the serrations weren't needed per say, but did help hold it in place and immediately showed how they were useful. I did not carry the SAK at that time, it's a bit newer.

@GameTimeWhy Жыл бұрын

You could have used any good blade though. You didn't need the cool looking blade to cut cord. Could have got a good pair of shears for that.

@evilmandrake Жыл бұрын

@@GameTimeWhy Like I said, I don't exactly remember what was needed for. The point is the blade she was criticizing was helpful and it was funny, not to mention the usefulness of the immediate proximity.

@firefox5926 Жыл бұрын

3:56 that graph .. is that incidents per 100,000 or what that scale on the left also where is it from ?

@TrueNomadSkies Жыл бұрын

Fellow Canadian here. I've read through all of our prohibited "weapons" laws and there's a lot of silliness for sure, be it in regards to firearms but especially things like knives. As someone who often works in warehouses, building things, etc, knives are essential and sometimes you want something that's more durable or has a different blade pattern than a typical box cutter. An argument I can understand for certain easier to open ones however is that spring loaded or gravity openable knives can more easily deploy without being intended to when in a toolbag or pocket or when dropped, etc where as a fixed blade will be understood as always dangerous and something needing assistance from a 2nd hand will remain in it's assumed safe position if stored that way. For the stars, knucks, chucks, Morningstars, flails, and other versions of that, I've heard that these date back quite a bit and have to do with being visibly intimidating. Given that chained weapons have a much higher historical relevancy for crowd control, it kind of makes sense. What doesn't tho is that technically, a group of my wrenches held together with a carribeener while in my toolbox for the sake of not getting my metric and standards mixed up also meets that definition or could.