I went to my state fair (Virginia) over the weekend. After going through the gates, I got wanded and had to walk a half mile back to my truck because I couldn't bring in my leatherman. (I've been to the fair in the past, and this was never an issue). Well, while in the fair one of the booths was selling KITCHEN KNIVES!! So, the next time I want to go on a killing spree, it's nice to know that if my pocketknife gets confiscated at the fair, I can just get a LARGER ONE once I get in!
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Hey, there--don't give lawyers too bad a rap. In my experience, lawyers are to litigation kind of like soldiers are to war: they've seen fighting, they know it's wasteful and not pretty. The vast majority of the time--and I'll underline VAST--it's the client who walks in the door hell-bent on taking a case to trial. I have seen FAR more people talked OUT of suing someone by lawyers than I have seen talked INTO suing by lawyers. You don't see too many wars started by the infantry--it's the rabid politicians you've really got to watch out for.
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It's a joke, and an insulting one at that... At our recent Utah State Fair one could find booths selling every type of knife and sword you might be able to imagine, except for ballistic autos (the ones that 'shoot' the blade out for long range deanimation), and knives of any actual quality... I also found electronic stun-devices for sale... Luckily they aren't paranoid enough in my neck of the woods to want folks for carrying their big dangerous leatherman knives, yet. I was probably carrying my Paramilitary, or my Emerson cqc7a the day I went to our fair.
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. . . and the juries, too. I know, I know--non-lawyers threaten each other with their lawyers. Lawyers threaten other lawyers with JURIES. ("Oh, yeah?! You think you've got a good case, huh? Well, let's just see what a JURY thinks of your client!") No lawyer ever delivered a million-dollar verdict--actually, they usually strike lawyers from juries, so, arguably, lawyers are underrepresented on juries. No, those ridiculous lawsuits are dreamed up by clients and hammered home by juries. Sure, there are jackass lawyers who help out cases that should be allowed to die quietly before ever seeing the light of a courtroom--but it's an unrealistic shift of responsibility to claim that the lawyers are the ones doing it.
And I'm with you: bureaucrats who will insist you be frisked for a Leatherman tool before you enter a fair where you can buy a kitchen knife are exquisitely annoying--but, then, we knew that about bureaucrats, didn't we?
And I'm with you: bureaucrats who will insist you be frisked for a Leatherman tool before you enter a fair where you can buy a kitchen knife are exquisitely annoying--but, then, we knew that about bureaucrats, didn't we?
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Return of the JD....after several years of law enforcement, and now several years in running commerical real estate, I have only bad words for lawyers. In criminal law they always sort a loop hole or favor to get a true dirt bag a walk in the sun as punishment for a serious crime. In the world of Commerical real Esate, I end up going to about forty EBTs a year on slip and falls due to the greed of lawters, and their cleints did not have to beg to hard for them to start the suit.....there are good lawyers, and there are innnocent people in jail...i would guess about the same percentage for each.....
A few years ago, I went to the annual carnival that's held in the parking lot of Shea Stadium. You can't really expect much from a traveling carnival, so I wasn't TOO disappointed.
But, I left my 3"-bladed tactical folder at home because I didn't want to get hasseled by Security. Not only was there NO security, but one of the carnival games there was a Ring Toss booth with knives stuck into pieces of wood, instead of wooden pegs. They were all el-cheapos, including the 5"-bladed fixed-blade I could have won!
Nowadays, common sense seems to be a little too much to ask for.
Right after 9-11, we went to Europe. At the security check-in, we had to toss my wife's teenie nail cuticle clippers, but on the plane they served us beef with a 5" long metal serrated steak knife. I guess they figured if we ALL had knives, it was an ok thing. Kinda a parallel to the typical argument for allowing CCW laws.
