It appears the new Obama agents at US Customs and Border have decided that knives are dangerous if they have little springs in them to assist in opening them up and will be outlawed, after they were previously legal in the United States.For too long liberal zealots have harped about things they deem dangerous, because it opens a fear factor in them and attempt to speak to issues which their opening of their mouths only proves their moronic ignorance.
For the record, the Constitution of the United States states that one has the right to keep and bear ALL arms. That just does not end at shotguns and rifles, but includes handguns and yes even knives of all types and sorts, and it does indeed include machine guns in all types and sorts.
I have heard liberals try and flex this in, "Well nuclear bombs are arms and does that mean people should have them too?", as their Larry King line of logic which is supposed to thwart people being armed.
The Founders were quite explicit in how they phrased this issue of defense and hunting in arms. One could keep any arm they could bear. Oh wow, there is something new isn't it in actually have a word mean something.
If a person can bear any arm, that is what the limit is on the keeping of that weapon on an individual keeping that weapon. 600 pound cannons pretty well negate that, but pineapple grenades do not negate that.
If you don't want someone spending millions of dollars to make a suitcase nuke they could probably carry around, then change the Constitution, otherwise the Constitutional Law makes it legal to bear that arm, unless arms are redefined as single instruments which the individual can operate in their defense or hunting sense. That would be firearms, RPG's, knives, baseball bats, brass knuckles etc...
The way to deal with the misuse of arms by people is to enforce the penalties. Stick someone in prison 20 years for using brass knuckles in a fight they didn't start and that teaches morons to not use overt violence.
Knives are the same situation. This nonsense about outlawing switchblades which are no more dangerous than a screwdriver and less than a nail gun is something the Supreme Court should overturn and it is long overdue in the Courts not striking down liberal infringement laws.
The Japanese could not have weapons in the sheep populace so that is where Judo came from, along with using pitchforks, hoes and cane poles as weapons to kill the warrior who was intent on raping your daughter.
People who have watched All is Quiet on the Western Front will recall Ernest Borgnine in teaching his German troops that a nice edge put on their trench shovels would decapitate the enemy more effectively than a bayonet.
In any fight, the wonderful modern tools of the straight claw hammer, rubber handled screwdriver to box cutters used on the 9 11 flights make short work of any human when used with intent. Lowes has more deadly implements for sale to anyone, including criminals, than Ruger does.
G. Gordon Liddy once stupidly went public in telling Dick Cavett that he could kill people with a pen, although he would not show Cavett in public, he would show him off air. That really helped as anyone with a brain knows exactly how a Bic pen can be utilized in strike areas and the two modes of employing that "weapon" which would make it as effective as an atomic bomb in ending some one's life.
Weapons are what people carry attached to their torso every day. Bearing weapons are extensions of those limbs carried and are all protected by the Constitution.
The last time I was fired upon was by some idiot college kid who when I was passing them on the highway, the passenger thought it interesting to fire a 22 revolver over their hood at me.
I did not appreciate the event, but held my reserve. I though did not call for a banning of bearing arms as next time I might return fire or some other American might solve the problem in returning fire for me.
I do hope though that the Obama comrades marching in step tick off another huge voting block in America in the 40 million people who carry pocketknives daily for various reasons who never give them any more thought than the rancher who has a Ruger behind his seat compared to his fence stretcher, as the problem in this world is not springs on knife blades, but idiot people who need to be tried and hung as in the old days until the stump dropped off from the head in committing felonies.
Perhaps if enough separate Americans in bankers, union people, gun owners, knife carriers, women with children start understanding the danger to America is the spring in Obama's flapping step, maybe Congress will have to re evaluate Obama's bogus credentials or Democrats in 2012 will put Hillary on the Presidential ticket in replacing the knife grabber Obama.
Not holding my breath, but am holding my pocketknife.
My compliments to Rex Applegate.
agtG
