Pretty old but funny nonetheless.

The funny thing is, making this video and banning these things would probably make kids more likely to use them anyway. At the least the video would make kids who previously had no idea about these things aware of them.

Besides I doubt the people who are malicious enough to use these in the manner described in the video would actually pay money (apparently $35 which is idiotic for a hunk of plastic) for them. They'd be more likely to rig up or use something a lot cheaper (free).

The reason why anyone in this video is so appalled by these things is perception. Sure a pen can be used as a weapon, a bat could too.. but people don't perceive those items as such. Brass knuckles and the like are however, thus the negative reaction.

And yes, I wouldn't want to get hit with them either, but if someone wanted to hit me with them they'd find a way to do it. Banning them would probably make the punishment for getting caught with them more severe, which is good I guess, but it won't completely solve the problem.

All the posts made like "ban bats, water, pens" etc cmon seriously.. that's just dumb. Sure those things could be used to harm someone, but I doubt someone carrying a pair of these lexan knuckles in school is going to write a term paper or play a game of baseball with them. However, I'm sure the person could get out of a test or win a baseball game with them.

I don't get what there is to complain about anyway, the weekends are usually boring on here (not any fault of any of the editors, I'm sure they're just busy on the weekends). It's nice to see someone posting loads on the weekend for once. That might be another reason why it seems so one sided, no one else has really been posting so it kind of looks like Cory is post whoring when he really isn't. It's the same frequency of posts just no one else posting to break things up between his posts.

Besides, Cory, Xeni, Joel, Mark, etc are all awesome people and any one of them could turn this into their own personal blog and I'd still read it religiously.