>The thing I hate most about liberals is their faulty logic. As an engineer and programmer, logic is king.
Indeed, I am a programmer as well and I cannot stand the faulty logic I encounter. (Like being told that I couldn’t take a weapon [training-sword, not technically a weapon] to our local tea-party because it was right next to a police station... I’m sorry, but if it’s not illegal then it must be legal, right? Nope, I got him to admit that it wasn’t illegal, but I didn’t push it... though now I wish I had.)
An interesting note though, is that I was refereed to a therapist (about emotional hardships upon returning from deployment), and he said that “things aren’t black and white”.
No, They [the world] are far more black-and-white, legal/illegal, good-and-evil than most give it credit for.
In a lot of areas, you can actually wear a gun on your hip. It’s the concealed gun that gets you in trouble. That being said, I wouldn’t wear a gun out in public sight.
The sword is close to the same thing. I’ll grant that you should be able to take it out there, but it would probably cause more problems than it was worth.
I think you did the right thing. If I were truly wanting something to protect myself out there, it would be a small firearm. It wouldn’t be a sword. And I’m sure you feel the same way. So in truth, taking the sword out there was merely something you wanted to do, more than something you felt you needed to do.
Wouldn’t you agree?