Quote Originally Posted by HarborSpringsPiper View Post
I seriously doubt that any laws about any blades anywhere really change anything, other than the ablility of the prosecutor to lob another charge at the "alleged" perpetrator, after the fact.
Meanwhile, the province of Saskatchewan may be "considering legislation that could include knife bans in publics spaces, age restrictions on knife sales and new 'tools' for police to combat what law enforcement officials call an upsurge of violent knife use on Saskatoon streets" ... including - if those law enforcement officials have their way - giving police the power to seize any knife that they think might potentially be used as a weapon ...

I should admit that I tend to approve of restrictions on dangerous weapons, but this is different. My elderly mother's ubiquitous pocket knife would be safe, but a young Sikh's kirpan likely wouldn't be; the acceptability of a sgian dubh would depend on a particular officer's (potentially arbitrary or biased) assessment of the person wearing it, not just of his behaviour at any particular time, since the possibility of disarming an individual deemed dangerous already exists, as does the possibility of seizing something deemed a dangerous weapon. In Saskatoon, the primary targets would inevitably be Aboriginal.