Box cutter:
Xacto knife:
Utility knife:
And last but not least, the uber-evil, kills by itself, weapon of choice for all those drive by bayonetings that are rampant nowadays:
Posted on 10/05/2001 2:34:34 AM PDT by Terrorista Nada
States Grapple With Sale and Possession of Box Cutters as a Tool for Violence
That's not very efficient. Let's instead, outlaw each and every instrument that could be used for murder.
I've used that analogy to highlight the mountain of laws that will eventually, if left unchecked, turn into the Rocky Mountain Range. Whereas all valid criminal law could be covered by this:
The Constitution of the Universe
Article 1
No person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual.
Article 2
Force may be morally and legally used only in self-defense against those who violate Article 1.
Article 3
No exceptions shall exist for Articles 1 and 2.
With a little more help from my friends:
The Bush administration has ruled that the U.S. Air Force can shoot down hijacked airliners to prevent their use as weapons against buildings, but airline pilots are not permitted to carry pistols.
Pilots threaten to stop service if kept unarmed
It is soooo logical to arm pilots that I can't stand it. Why would additional personnel (marshals) in the cabin where the marshals are subject to hijacking be preferable to just setting up the last line of defense and making sure no one could be better armed than that last line without destroying the plane???
I totally agree. You know, this is not an isolated incident where politicians, bureaucrats, journalists and special interest groups suddenly had a mental disorder where logic abandoned them. It is typical. Common incompetence. Intentionally creating problems where they need not exist.
Think about it, if they, especially politicians and bureaucrats can fail in logic that any other person would readily assume a logical course of action -- Torie is the only one of fifty people on this thread that doesn't "get it" -- there is an extremely high probability that politicians and bureaucrats fail just as miserably if not more so regarding other issues.
Most people on FreeRepublic should seek to understand the profound meaning of that. In short, it amounts to this...
Who are the value producers? Who are the value destroyers?
Protect the value producers -- prosecute the value destroyers.
It will cost taxpayers three to five billion dollars a year to fund the training and salaries of sky marshals and it still won't solve the problem nearly as well as armed pilots. Plus, is poses other risks. One is that a terrorist will gain control of sky marshal's gun and use it to effectively turn the plane into a missile or a terrorist impersonating a sky marshal. ...If politicians and bureaucrats have it their way -- Who are the value destroyers? To add more logic is that Front Sight Firearm Training Institute -- arguably the best in the country and probably the world -- is offering to train commercial pilots for free -- Who are the value producers?
Protect the value producers -- prosecute the value destroyers.
But, but...if we arm pilots, we'll have to arm bus drivers, then the cab drivers and pizza delivery guys. Before you know it, we'll have an armed citizenry! We can't do that--why, it's downright CONSTITUTIONAL!!
How true, how true. It is the most threatening thing for politicians and bureaucrats to be accurately identified as the problem and not the solution. They fear that the Constitution and Bill Of Rights will become contagious. My brief tribute with a little help from my friends:
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged
U.S. government agents/Gestapo seeking a family's National ID Cards: What?! You don't have your papers. Take the alleged Mr. and Mrs. Smith in for questioning. Take the two children to the processing center.
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind.
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority." -- Frederick Bastiat, The Law (1850)
Especially since they allow to pass such blatant insults to our intelligence. For example: "But I didn't inhale". "It depends on the meaning of what is, is." I didn't have an affair with Jennifer Flowers." "I didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski." The constitution clearly states one and only one recourse when a President is impeached: removal from office. Legislators know how to violate their oath of office.
Prohibition was a total failure but the War On some Drugs will be a success. So will the War On Poverty be a success. "Legitimize" Ruby Ridge, "legitimize" mass murder of seventy-eight innocents at Waco. How many innocents have been terrorized, physically injured, sometimes murdered and financially deprived by no-knock raids? Recently and still ongoing, the government terrorized -- is terrorizing -- 1500 farmers at Klamath Falls basin and in the process destroyed the farmers livelihoods/businesses. And the biggest "good-guy" liberty thief -- the IRS -- how many thousands of innocents have been physically, emotionally and financially terrorized by the IRS criminal investigation division (CID).
Only a man's prior actions can hope to speak for his future intents.
Who are the value producers? Who are the value destroyers?
Protect the value producers -- prosecute the value destroyers.
My grandma was born in '96, she died in 1992, but before she passed, she taught me the truth as she saw it. She raised 8 children, my grandpa was a teamster(a real one), and was gone for long periods of time. He died when his oldest was 19, the youngest was 6 years old. She was the postmaster of the town, taught school and cooked for ranch hands on the weekends. She refused to take govt "relief", instead she "farmed out" the oldest of the children to local farmers and ranchers, where they did chores, cooked and cleaned, or toiled in the fields, in return she took in the money from all of the children, and kept the house in order for the smaller ones. Now my mother and her siblings are ALL liberals, and look upon her as too stern, and offish. They now have no problem living off the govt teat, although they would never be in the position to do it(their mother taught them too well for that) But out of this enormous family, there are 3 conservatives. Out of nearly 100 uncles, aunts, or cousins only 3 exist. Until I found this site, I really didn't even know there were any others beside me and Rush.
Anyways, she disdained the politics of the family, until the day she died. Told anyone who would listen, that they needed to "tighten your belt", or "buck up be responsible" when things got tough. I don't know if she was just crabby, or if the values she saw in others of this era just grated on her. But you can bet she would think most everybody were sheep(le), to her everyone was either dependent, or independent, and she left not a doubt which one she preferred.
Oh, and I remember her telling me in '60, that JFK was a "rounder", while she proudly campaigned for Nixon.
I could be in trouble, I often leave these deadly items on the coffee table, or on the dash of the truck, I had better go out and get a tool safe, and store the cordless drill in a separate place. You never know when the grandFReepers might get into those things, and cause a neighborhood incident.
LOL
And don't forget the pens. There must be a permit for pen users. No kidding! These things are dangerous...
GandtheD
Box cutter:
Xacto knife:
Utility knife:
And last but not least, the uber-evil, kills by itself, weapon of choice for all those drive by bayonetings that are rampant nowadays:
You know, it's a never been documented fact that box cutters are an entry type of weapon. Statistics allegedly indicate a clear possibility that the use of box cutters may eventually lead to more dangerous weapon use.
I say "nip-it-in-the-bud."
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