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As the title suggests, there needs to be a concrete ruling on knuckledusters and their status as "nonlethal" or lethal. The fact of the matter is, there are many people who think a set of brass knuckles are not a weapon or are not capable of being lethal when that is simply not the case. When employing brass knuckles, you are hitting someone in the face with anywhere from a few ounce to a pound and a half chunk of metal. This can not only open head wounds, it can crack bone, fracture orbitals, and even potentially kill someone with a single strike landed to the temple. The current take is that they are not considered weapons so any fight involving them is simply regarded as "a fistfight", but last I checked, a fistfight involved fists, not weaponry. With that same take, I can pick up a brick and punch someone with it in my hand, and it's still a fistfight. There needs to be a concrete ruling on this because right now it's being left up to admin discretion and that opens up plenty of room for very heated disagreements over the utility of what are, absolutely, lethal weapons. They were originally conceived as a fist weapon hundreds of years ago and have been adopted since into things such as the US Mk. I Trench Knife in WWII, which is where they gained their popularity in the civilian space. There is a reason knuckle dusters are illegal in most of the US, Hong Kong, Belgium, Canada, Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Finland, Russia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Malaysia, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Spain, Singapore, The United Kingdom, and Taiwan. They cause horrific and life-altering facial injuries and have a very real possibility of killing whoever they're employed on. https://www.findlaw.com/injury/product-liability/brass-knuckles-and-the-law.html This alone classifies them as a deadly weapon. They are not fists, and are more likely to kill than fists. Brass knuckles have no utility as a tool like a knife does, and no utility for sport or enthusiasts like guns do. They are a weapon designed to hurt and kill. https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/18/cauthorne-rivera-hernandez-camden-manslaughter/580509001/ https://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/crazy-world/filipino-kid-beaten-to-death-with-brass-knuckles-by-school-mates-2013-04-17-1.502920 Below are enclosed images of victims of brass knuckle attacks. These are very graphic, view at your own risk. -
I want to leave this here and see the communities response to escalation, the idea behind it, what it means to you, and what stance you have on it.
