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Thank you for reporting this. I'm a Yank in Oz, and - from my first day here, I was in awe of how little the Aussie people protest for their rights. OK - melt the guns (that's when I heard about murders with machetes & chainsaws)... (and those guns somehow found their way back onto the streets to commit later crimes - how did that happen?)

I am a martial artist, and I'm not sure what I would have to do to acquire a live weapon for practice. I'm not allowed shuriken, katana, or even some of the blunt style weapons. WTF?

When I was in high school in the US , my best friend got in trouble for having a 7" blade. I think she was all of 5'2", maybe 99 pounds. She told them she used it to clean her nails. (it was a relatively safe environment, but she came from a tougher family - but - same city a few years later, I became very aware of my vulnerability in a different neighbourhood, and started with the martial arts).

I'm wondering: WHAT IS A KNIFE?

I carry a handy tiny Swiss Army thing that they won't let me take on the plane, but would it be seized at Central Station? Is a knife 2"? 4"? 6" or just bigger than the dick of the cop who is searching me?

At what point does a useful blade become a weapon, in the eyes of the "wanders?"

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Fucking outrageous. Time to go nude!

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