I meant to comment on this particular bit of idiocy when it occurred:
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store.
Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people."
It's not the actual crime that made me wince... it was the reporting.
Specifically:
Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon.
Excuse me? "Turned it into a weapon"?
A knife is a weapon. [1]
What's the world coming to when a crazed lunatic is capable of understanding that fact, but the police and/or media apparently manage to miss it?
[1] Yes, yes. I know, it's a tool. But as Wikipedia points out: "As a weapon, the knife is universally adopted as an essential tool." It's the Razzles of technological progress.
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