I also think a hardfork should happen before the release of the knc scrypt miner to show that vertcoin means business with its asic resistant claim.
No.
A) The KnC miner isn't even advertised as a n-scrypt ASIC.
B) Why would you want an unnecessary hardfork when this ASIC hasn't even been released and proven to mine ASICs? Because you want to show VTC means 'business'? That would show the opposite.