Theland - // The rope!
Thinks, "on second thoughts I won't take this knife out, there's been too many hangings this year." //
Statistics, as well as basic common sense, suggests that someone who goes out carrying a knife like this, and clearly keen to use it, is unlikely to ponder the finer points of the legal redress implications in advance.
That requires the sort of intelligence and ability to think ahead that is sadly missing from the average knife-carrying psychopath's mindset.