Posted on 09/10/2011 1:45:54 PM PDT by marktwain
I can just imagine how this will go:
“Waiter! Can I have a steak knife for my steak?”
Waiter: “No, they were banned by our city council.”
So true. And I like the way you stated that.
Imbeciles in action! Knives are hard to control in prison. How do these dipsticks think this could work?
People will use a stick or a rock to kill each other if those are all that is available.
Loony!
It bears repeating, over and over again. Knives are not tools, they can be used as such, but they are protected because they are weapons. They are arms. Knives, swords, blowguns, saps, daggers, etc, are all constitutionally protected, and those laws that ban them are unconstitutional. In the focus to protect gun rights, too often we ignore that knives have been legislated away in many regions and carrying one can cause a felony conviction - and of course, get a felony conviction, and chances are, your gun rights are taken away as well.
The continued references in the article to knives being tools does a disservice to everyone. It is pretending that they shouldn't be regulated when they are protected from regulation.
Hmmm, well what about scissors?
I can throw scissors just as well as I can throw a blade.
Hopefully they don’t go after icepicks and railroad spikes next, cuz I can throw those too, and they are dangerous :D
How about forks, spoons...sticks. My oh My...so many weapons so little time.
We need hammer control! To witness an expert carpenter wielding a claw hammer is enough to strike fear into a strong man’s heart. No untrained homeowner should have a claw hammer in his possession, these weapons are far too dangerous, a federal license should be required to sell any hammer weighing more than four ounces. Then there is the matter of screwdrivers, no screwdriver with a shaft more than one inch long should be allowed. Then we need to outlaw automatic assault nail guns. Now let’s talk about walking sticks. I can go on and on and on until I drop dead of old age and never run out of potential weapons to outlaw.
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I hadn’t tried forks yet, I’m thinking a two pronged BBQ fork would make a nice throwing weapon.
I did forget to mention that I can also throw full sized machetes very accurately, so hopefully those get banned in boston too!
Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
No joke, I went to a restaurant, ordered a steak, and was given a butter knife to use. When I asked for a steak knife, the waiter offered to take the steak into the kitchen to have it cut up for me, to which I stood up and started gathering my stuff. The waiter objected, saying I couldn't walk out on my bill. I replied 'feel free to call the cops, but if Mommy's going to cut my steak for me, she can eat it too.'
Long story short, the cops were indeed called, and had one of the employees come out to inform me that I wasn't welcome on their property again. He waited for the employee to go back inside, shook his head, and noted there was one less restaurant on his list to try, as it was the stupidest policy he ever heard of.
Ping
What part of the country was “Mommy’s Restaurant” in?
Knive/melee weapon control is a lot less complicated then gun control. A bad guy can get a knife or bludgeoning weapon no matter what, period, end of story. They mention that they can’t control it even in micromanaged FREAKING PRISON. Even if you take away everything with edges, you can still grind a point on a butterknife. You can grind a point on a fracking toothbrush. What about bludgeoning weapons? Baseball bats and lead pipes. ROCKS.
Again, a criminal will always be able to find a mellee weapon no matter what. It is bad enough with emotional idiot politicians, but the police are supporting this crock too? Grrrr
Wow, posted that sucker by accident without spellcheck. Sorry if anybody’s head explodes from all the typos.
While stationed in Havana, we used to patronize “paladares,” private homes permitted to open up as privately operated restaurants. When we visited our favorite, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, we had to bring our own steak knives for the pork they served; they were only allowed to use butter knives for their guests.
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