It looks like I am still ok to hack down the bamboo in my back yard. 
Posted on 07/31/2006 9:12:05 PM PDT by desert song
It shall be unlawful for any person to point, hold, or brandish a machete or any weapon, with an exposed blade 12 inches or longer, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons and in a manner that reasonably demonstrates that intent. This section shall not apply to any person engaged in excusable or justifiable self-defense. A person who violates this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor or, if the violation occurs upon any public, private, or religious elementary, middle, or high school, including buildings and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school property, he is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
(2006, cc. 844, 895.)
I predict it won't be long before some ordinary citizen whacks an MS-13er. Will be long overdue.
MS-13 in Alexandria
"That's not a knife..."
This is the counterpoint to HCI's billboards in Florida warning thugs about Florida's "no retreat" and concealed carry laws.
Basically, the billboard and this law say the same thing. You're in the South, so don't bring your fists or knives to a gun fight.
How are Virginia's gun laws? It's a right of center red state to my knowledge, but is there any Virginians who can give their 2 cents?
How about a baseball bat?
A Brick?
A Pipe?
A Hammer?
A Picture of Hillary?
A Cordless Drill
A Lawyers Business Card?
My Son's Socks?
What a crock of Doodle
TT
Are most law written he or she and could this be a loop hole for women?
And are they cool with brandishing a machete with a 11" blade?
Flash ahead: Today, March 18, 2010, Virginia has outlawed the handling of butter knives by white males. Any other person can carry any other weapon but white males may not secrete any butter knives in pockets, armpits or baggage.
It looks like I am still ok to hack down the bamboo in my back yard.
Doesn't say anything about brandishing an 11" blade, good!
"This is about gang violence, from South America. They have a thing for machetes. Couple of people have had their fingers/hands cut off from gang violence up here in N. Va.- MS-13 gang."
Yeah jest 'nother of dem hard workin' illegal immgrants; just here to do dem jobs us lazy 'mercans won't do.
And people want to give this vermin a free pass in our country?
We don't need rules about the length of a knife or the number of bullets in a magazine. We need to enforce the rules already on the books, and throw people who break the law in the klink until they are old and gray.
-ccm
Now in the northern counties, near Alexandria and such, there may be co. ordinances against certain gun display, but I have no first-hand knowledge one way or the next.
Personally, I don't care about the machette thing, other than the fact my wife's first husband carries one with him always, and has on two occasions threatened my meager existence. No worries, I keep my old Savage 12 guage nearby...just in case the idiot forgets himself....T
In some parts of central and South America, a machete is like a pocketknife is here. Honed to razor sharpness, I have even seen men mowing lawn grass with a machete, no joke. I was amazed to see one trimming grass as neatly as shaving a beard with a razor.
"Brandishing" is a very valid legal point. It was once so certain that even police officers almost never brandished their pistols, because everyone assumed they were going to shoot to kill at that point, negotiations had ended. But now police brandish all the time, a very foolhardy technique.
Virginia is a "shall issue" state.
Yep.
Wait till someone is fooling around with one made of plastic and gets arrested under this law. After all a plastic machete is a weapon right?
In some of the Carribean countries, those guys are born with machetes in their hands. I think about half the guys down there walk around with them, and when they look at you, you know they wouldn't think twice about using it on you.
You and me both........although it's not bamboo, just all the weird stuff that grows along side the creek.
It also comes in real handy when I'm ready to harvest an herb crop, such as basil; parsley, or oregano.
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