[Cicero]

My first reaction was outrage, but I suppose it depends on what they actually said.

In the Boy Scouts, you learn how to tie a slipknot, which works like a noose. I don’t know if they still teach people how to tie a noose. I think I recall learning how when I was a boy.

Could come in handy for hanging cattle rustlers.

[mamelukesabre]

It used to be in the encyclopedia...how to tie a hangman’s noose. That’s how I learned. It might’ve been in a boyscout book too.

[ReignOfError]

In the Boy Scouts, you learn how to tie a slipknot, which works like a noose. I don’t know if they still teach people how to tie a noose. I think I recall learning how when I was a boy.

It's a bit of a semantic niggle (maybe I shouldn't say that, but I'm a niggler), but the knot is called a hangman's knot. It is a strong and versatile slip knot. It isn't a noose unles it's intended to hang someone -- or, in fairness, to imply the intent to hang someone. Like a gun or a knife, the knot itself is not a threat until and unless it's used to harm or threaten someone.

[Smokin' Joe]

We used to use the noose knot to hang deer up after field dressing them.

I had learned how to tie one by the age of ten.

It is a handy knot, and just a knot, an arrangement of rope, but I can see why the politicians and bureaucrats might want it banned.

I guess once people have pretty much driven the Confederate Battle Flag out of the public venue, they need some other "symbol" to hate.

Frankly, I hope none of these folks ever needs a chain for anything.