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Originally Posted by MovieBird

Isn't it normal for people with glasses to carry a screwdriver in their fix-it kit?

Never heard of it. The screws in our glasses stays in place normally.

Or construction workers, or civil/structural engineers?

So what. The law take that into consideration. Working tool is OK.

Sounds like a sizable chunk of folks, just off the top of my head. Besides, a nice pen would do very nicely as a slender, pointy, weapon in a bar fight. More so than a broken bottle or glass would, at least. Those take time to break and wield, and never survive first impact, whether you score a fight ending injury or not.

But how about keys? You can do some major damage with those stuck between your digits, as a kind of poor man's brass knuckles (with points!). Should we outlaw keys and go fully biometric because they can be used for nefarious purposes? ANYTHING can be used as a weapon! We should ban everything except for water wings... Except a baby might suffocate under one if they can't lift it off of themselves after they knocked it over crawling. I guess we better ban those as well!

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the law. The purpose is not to forbid everything that can be used as a weapon. The purpose was to forbid something that was actually use a lot as a weapon in fights. And from what I can see nothing else have replaced it so it seems like the law is working.