Comment Re:Illegal? (Score 1) 418
Comparing private ownership of dangerous material to access in a public institution (presumably for learning) is a bit of stretch. Educational institutions frequently have different controls. A less dangerous example: You can not let anyone copy a copyrighted book that you own, whereas libraries are allowed to do that.
Also, a knife, a car, a computer each have many legitimate uses.
I am not saying that I agree with the conviction (I don't know the details), but saying that the law being applied to ownership of kitchen knife should be the same as the one applied here is naive.