How come switchblade knifes are illegal because there "Dangerous" but guns are not?

I have a theory but I have never researched it. It's just my own theory. Back in the wild wild west, everybody carried a gun openly on their hip.

It was an honorable thing to do, and people generally behaved appropriately with them. On the other hand, a person carrying some dishonorable switchblade...almost certainly concealed in a pocket...was not to be trusted. They were no doubt up to no good and would run that thing straight into your heart the minute they had a chance.

That's my theory. I certainly have nothing to back it up with but it's the only way I can explain the ridiculous incongruency. As for switchblades being illegal... In California, this is the law: 653k.

Every person who possesses in the passenger's or driver's area of any motor vehicle in any public place or place open to the public, carries upon his or her person, and every person who sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale, loans, transfers, or gives to any other person a switchblade knife having a blade two or ... more.

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