"without any explainable lawful purpose"

[Fear_Itself]

@Magiver

Here again, it depends on how you read the definition. The blade of most knives are sharpened double-edged (I have some that are single edged like scissors). The picture in my cite was a double edged blade (sharpened on one side).

That is a rather tortured definition of "double edged’ that is not in common use.

[IAmNotSpartacus]

@Fear_Itself

That is a rather tortured definition of "double edged’ that is not in common use.

If we are going with magiver’s interpretation, then all knives would have 4 to 8 edges, no?

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

@The_Great_Philosopher

On the other hand, I watched a guy getting arrested for carrying a knife, and he used the ‘I’m a carpenter’ excuse; the police said, “why do you need to have your knife on you, in your jacket, at 11pm on a saturday night, outside a club?” :smack:

Exactly. I could be a farmer, but just try carrying the scythe into the bank.

[Fear_Itself]

@Swallowed_My_Cellphone

Exactly. I could be a farmer, but just try carrying the scythe into the bank.

“I am the Angel of Death, and I’ve come for Uncle Billy!”

[Chronos]

Why is a slingshot considered inherently more dangerous than a bow? Both can be used as weapons, but both can also be used for sport, and pretty much the same sorts of sport in both cases. Is it just that a slingshot is more easily concealable?

[Furious_Marmot]

@Mister_Rik

I’m a chef and I own my own set of knives, which I carry in a special knife case. They’re fairly expensive knives, so I take them home with me each day. I live only three blocks from work, and occasionally I walk to and from the job, so I have to be prepared to “explain myself” if a cop decides to stop me for some reason and wants to know why I’m carrying all these knives. Of course, they’re pretty obviously kitchen knives, not intended as weapons.

Roland, is that you?

[Paul_in_Qatar]

I had to look up ** cestus**.

A cestus (plural cesti) is an ancient battle glove, sometimes used in pankration.

So I am pleased to clear that up for you.

[Mister_Rik]

@Furious_Marmot

Roland, is that you?

Hah!

[constanze]

@Chronos

Why is a slingshot considered inherently more dangerous than a bow? Both can be used as weapons, but both can also be used for sport, and pretty much the same sorts of sport in both cases. Is it just that a slingshot is more easily concealable?

WAG: A slingshot is not only far easier to conceal, it can also be used concealed. If you use a bow to kill somebody, that arrow sticking out of his chest is going to be a rather big clue.
If you put a stone in a sling-shot and kill somebody by hitting him on the head, you have a good chance that it will be considered an accident if the stone could have fallen from above. Or use a round object that disintegrates upon impact.

In Dorothy Sayers crime novel Murder must advertise the murderer uses a sling-shot taken from an office boy to fire a small stone artifact from a ceiling window at a man going downstairs; the man is knocked unconcious and falls down the stairs. Everybody believes that he stumbled and was killed by the fall; the stone artifact found on the stairs is believed to have slipped out of his pocket at some time.