A simplebut to the point one.
Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris tells the Idaho Press-Tribune that Jaremy Allen McCane died in the front yard of a residence early Saturday after being stabbed at least once.
Give somebody a piece of steel and a rock and they can build a primitive knife in almost no time. Of course you can make knives out of stone, or other materials too.
Think restricting tools will accomplish ANYTHING?
h/t Barron
Heck, give a man iron ore, some wood, and some tools, and eventually he can make a good steel sword by himself. Even in the blade-control paradise of Formerly-Great Britain, it can be done.
Or, even more basic, some copper, wood, and rocks will give you a basic copper knife. Not too good for holding an edge, but it will work pretty effectively as a stabbing implement.
Yeah cool stuff. Even what is considered modern metallurgy is fairly old and primitive stuff. It isn’t easy but it isn’t exactly something any literate and handy person CAN’T do with a little practice.
Hell probably wouldn’t take too much more to build a that steel billet into a Flintlock, or even to cook up a batch of black powder!