Student gets Suspended for taking PIC of napping Teacher!

[Fayd]

And how many kids in elementary and HS have drafting mechanical pencils, or even want them? Heck, I knew kids that took drafting in HS, and never even heard of a drafting mechanical pencil.



I guess I wasn't clear as to why exactly I mentioned the grip of the knife. It's because of strength of the product itself. It's very, very easy to break a pencil by putting pressure on the sides of it. This is because it's not meant to take lateral force. Knives, on the other hand, typically are and are built with lateral force in mind, allowing them to withstand a fair amount of force before it starts to break down.

It's use was primarily to illustrate why I believe them to be more dangerous than a pencil, as pencils would amount to a single wound and knives to be capable of multiple wounds. You don't have to agree with me. I conceed that a pencil is pointier than a butter knife, but I still think that overall, you could do a lot more damage with a butter knife due to the fact that it's not a single use weapon.

i've used the same mechanical pencil from late elementary school through high school, through college, through more college, and will be serving me through grad school.

http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Sharp-Automatic-Drafting-Pencil/dp/B00006IEG0

a butterknife can't cut on a slashing stroke. it can ONLY do any damage on a piercing stroke. and you'd have to get it going a lot harder to get it to cut, since the tip is dull. with a standard grip, i'd be hard pressed to actually break skin with a butterknife. sure, the recipient might get a bruise, but that'd be about it. with a reversed grip and a downward stroke, i *might* be able to break skin, but damage from that method is limited. and no more than i could do with a pencil.

basically in a fight, you'd be giving yourself a handicap by wielding a butterknife over simple fists.

simply put, your argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.

 

[gothamhunter]

I'm pretty sure one of those could pierce you easily, perhaps not cut though.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

i've used the same mechanical pencil from late elementary school through high school, through college, through more college, and will be serving me through grad school.

http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Sharp-Automatic-Drafting-Pencil/dp/B00006IEG0

a butterknife can't cut on a slashing stroke. it can ONLY do any damage on a piercing stroke. and you'd have to get it going a lot harder to get it to cut, since the tip is dull. with a standard grip, i'd be hard pressed to actually break skin with a butterknife. sure, the recipient might get a bruise, but that'd be about it. with a reversed grip and a downward stroke, i *might* be able to break skin, but damage from that method is limited. and no more than i could do with a pencil.

basically in a fight, you'd be giving yourself a handicap by wielding a butterknife over simple fists.

simply put, your argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Hey I used that one too lol. I still use it to this day. I didnt know it was called a drafting pencil.

 

[GotIssues]

i've used the same mechanical pencil from late elementary school through high school, through college, through more college, and will be serving me through grad school.

http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Sharp-Automatic-Drafting-Pencil/dp/B00006IEG0

a butterknife can't cut on a slashing stroke.

it can ONLY do any damage on a piercing stroke. and you'd have to get it going a lot harder to get it to cut, since the tip is dull. with a standard grip, i'd be hard pressed to actually break skin with a butterknife. sure, the recipient might get a bruise, but that'd be about it. with a reversed grip and a downward stroke, i *might* be able to break skin, but damage from that method is limited. and no more than i could do with a pencil.

basically in a fight, you'd be giving yourself a handicap by wielding a butterknife over simple fists.

simply put, your argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Wait, wait, wait . . . your argument is that a pencil can be used as a stabbing weapon and a knife cannot?

Or is it that you don't think it's possible for a knife to penetrate the skin? Are you willing to take the challenge to take a butter knife and stab yourself in the gut? Yeah, didn't think so.