You're arguing from a point of ignorance...
To be fair, we all are, given that the legislation has not gone through parliament or ended up on the statute books yet.
Quite a few of us wrote in as part of the consultation on this proposed legislation...
I'm glad to hear that and I hope the legislators took some notice. Far too often these things are introduced without any consultation and I wasn't aware of any "consultation period" on this. From reading the press reports, I got the impression this was being rushed through in response to the recent spate of stabbings in London.
My point is that your point misses the point...
My point was that your point missed the point of my point.
You're focussing almost entirely on a very general point I made about the minutiae of the proposed legislation with regard to the definition of "assisted opening" on a knife and ignoring my broader point which is [for the third time now] that; more and more these days, government rushes in new legislation that "
punishes everyone for the mis-deeds of the few", rather than using the existing laws [of which we have more than enough] to punish wrong-doers.
A couple of examples off the top of my head of legislation either introduced or proposed:
PROBLEM: Teenage thugs [mostly in London] keep stabbing each other
LOGICAL SOLUTION: Lock violent offenders away for a very long time.
GOVT SOLUTION: Criminalise almost anyone who carries any kind of knife.
PROBLEM: Half-wits fly drones next to airports, endangering planes
LOGICAL SOLUTION: Use existing laws on sabotage and flight safety to punish these people.
GOVT SOLUTION: Ban anyone from operating a drone [over toy size] without a licence.
PROBLEM: Some criminals use encrypted messaging apps on their phones to disguise their communications
LOGICAL SOLUTION: It doesn't matter. Even if you make them send clear text messages they're going to use coded language, anyway.
GOVT SOLUTION: Make it illegal for anyone to encrypt a message in a way that the government can't read it
And it's not just on a national level. Local authorities do it too...
Some people are paedophiles and get off on pictures of children
LOGICAL SOLUTION: Arrest them, treat them, chemically castrate them, whatever.
LOCAL AUTHORITY SOLUTION: Ban parents from taking photos of their own kids in the school play.
And on and on it goes. Every time, instead of addressing the people who are actually committing the offences and punishing them properly, those in authority just run around like headless chickens, banning "stuff" and spoiling the lives of the vast majority of decent law-abiding people. And as
@direwul said, it's almost completely pointless, anyway:
They stab each other –-ban pen-knives. They start throwing acid in each other's faces --ban cleaning chemicals. They start hitting each other with sticks --ban walking sticks. They start kicking each other --ban boots. They hit each other with large pieces of fruit --ban large pieces of fruit. They start punching each other --amputate everybody's hands.
Where does it end? At what point do you stop just banning everything that might conceivably be used as a weapon and actually ban the people who perpetrate these crimes instead --by locking them away from society for a very long time and leaving the rest of us to get on with our lives in peace?