Posted on 06/12/2012 12:56:31 PM PDT by KyGeezer
He has completed the community service, and he has paid the fine. Because of the way that Clayton Baltzer sees the world, he believes this must be part of God’s plan.
Still, the Grove City High School graduate now has a New York weapons charge on his record. Baltzer, 19, is a Bible-college student — a camping-ministry major — and took his pocketknife to New York City on a field trip. He did not know about New York’s strict knife laws. He now has some fame among knife-rights advocates because of what happened to him.
“I have never been in trouble before,” Baltzer said.
His fine-arts class at Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pa., went to New York City on March 27. It was Baltzer’s first trip to the city. On the schedule: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center site, Times Square and an opera at Lincoln Center.
Baltzer and his class were at the Times Square subway station when someone grabbed him by the arm and said, “ Don’t move.” It was a plainclothes New York City police officer.
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NY and Connecticut and New Jersey and Maryland and Massachusetts and all the rest of the liberal northeast.
Try walking around in NYC naked with a knife. If you look artsy enough and tell them you work for the NYT no one will even notice.
I was hoping I wouldn’t be the first to thank you for your son’s service. We all owe him a great debt. Please accept my sincere condolences to you and your family. I can’t imagine the pain of losing one of my three sons.
As long as a knife in VA doesn’t shoot the blade you’re OK. I’m fond of my big Kershaw assisted opening knife.
I’ve carried a variety of guns. My absolute favorite now is a Ruger LCP-CT which now sports an RTK trigger which incredibly turned the LCP into a different gun . It kicks like a mule because it’s so light. I love it because I hardly know it’s in the inside the pants holster.
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“In VA, I have a concealed carry permit for a handgun, but am still restricted as to what knives I can carry.”
Me too. Among those knives one cannot carry around are the Bowie knives.
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