KNIFE CONTROL – Boston City Council Holds Knife Control Hearing(MA)

Ammoland.com ^ | 9 September, 2011 | Knife Rights

[marktwain]

It is an interesting suggestion. I do not know if it has been considered, and what the downsides might be. Here is the link to Knife Rights, a 501c(4):

http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=135

[marktwain]

Somewhere, I have a book that has that newspaper ad from the antebellum abolition movement in it. I picked it up about 1983.

Thank you for posting it. It shows that the “liberal” mindset has been around for quite a while.

[jonrick46]

If I had to pay for the steak, I would have got my money’s worth for their stupidity. A little dinner theater would have brought fun to the occasion: I would have picked that steak up with my hands, chomped into it with the appropriate dog growls and slobbering sounds; and dripped steak juices all over the table and carpet. Then I would have feigned a chocking sound making sure it sounded identical to someone in the act of throwing up. If the table was free standing I would have dropped on the ground and continued to writhe on the floor, chocking like a hog and knocking the table over. Then for the coup d’ grace, I would have spat a well chewed piece of steak out in the air, hoping it fell onto the maitre d’ head.

Of course, I would never be so over the top, but it would be tempting.

[tarotsailor]

I’ve got a hell of an ideà for you. Have you ever seen these 5 inch long glue-on ghetto nails urban ladies wear? Those are sharp blades masquerading as harmless fashion accessories...declare that if they’re over two inches long, the owners should be hauled in too. The NAACP and Al Sharpton and the Black Panthers would be all over them like white on racist rice.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Ask them if they are fully prepared to have the city pay the expenses of such a suit for such a long period of time and through all appeals. And if they are prepared to be the ones who set the precedent if/when the plaintiff’s prevail.\

Here is the part that makes fighting socialism difficult. The socialists don't care about spending public funds in law suits. It's your money they are spending not theirs.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Ask them if they are fully prepared to have the city pay the expenses of such a suit for such a long period of time and through all appeals. And if they are prepared to be the ones who set the precedent if/when the plaintiff’s prevail.\

Here is the part that makes fighting socialism difficult. The socialists don't care about spending public funds in law suits. It's your money they are spending not theirs.

[hadit2here]

I understand about socialists/marxists, but they’re also cowards. When THEY are named personally and THEY have to spend their own money to defend themselves or try to get themselves severed from the lawsuit, after a while they would be having second thoughts about passing these stupid laws.

Just taking a page from the libtard/socialist playbook like they did against Sarah Palin. Two hundred frivolous ethics “complaints”. Well, how about two hundred citizens filing separate lawsuits against individual council members? Two should be able to play that game.

Also, I’d think that after a while, the council members would find that just because your only tool is a hammer, not all problems are nails. One size doesn’t fit all. They’d realize that “passing a law” should take some thought and maybe some understanding of “the law” and their city/state/US Constitution- which they took an oath to uphold. Maybe they’d start to give some thought to the unintended consequences first.

Seems like the eviroweenies have the lawsuit thing down pat and they’re winning through sheer numbers and attrition. Whey shouldn’t law abiding, stand up citizens use the same tactics back on them?

I’m just saying that Ammoland, GOA, JPFO, NRA or some national RKBA organization (hell, even some law school students) could have the legal papers drawn up quite readily and numerous citizens could then file sets of them, naming different council members. Possibly slightly different causes of action so some liberal judge won’t lump them all together for “judicial economy”. Just an idea. The left does it all the time. I say, turn about’s fair play. Take a page from their playbook and listen to them scream.

I have no problem seeing most all councils or legislative bodies frozen with fear about passing some law. We’re the safest when they’re not able to pass laws. This was known even before Christ’s time when Marcus Tullius Ciceroca in 42 BC, wrote: More laws, less justice. Tacitus, in 93 AD, echoed it: “When society is most corrupt, then are laws most increased.”
And our own wit, Mark Twain added his twist in 1866: “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” It obviously hasn’t gotten any better recently.

I’m getting more and more convinced of the truth that “When the people fear the government you have tyranny; when the government fears the people, you have liberty.” Isn’t it about time that the people start instilling some fear?