Not to hijack or anything, but this is the problem I have with these "sheeple suck" threads. Granted there are some liberals who are afriad of knvies and guns, but there's probably an equal ammount of rightward leaning folks who have the same feelings.
I grant there may be more than a few, both parties are very broad tents by nessessity, but I'd argue that the numbers anywhere near approach "Equity" on this given most all anti's be they environmentalists, ACLU fanatics, race-baters, gun haters, Christian bashers, anarcists, etc..... are overwhelmingly far-left leaning, as are lawyers, academics, journalists, etc....
My EDC is a nearly four inch Benchmade 710, and guess what? I'm as liberal as it gets. I believe in the constitution of this wonderful country and all the freedom it gives us, including the second amendment. The only thing keeping my from owning as many guns as I do knives is money. My entire family are liberal democrats and I leared to use knives and shoot guns at a very tender age (my first knife was a Buck 110 at the age of 6).
Great! It may surprise you to know, I come from a traditionally "Democrat" family. A Military family. I'm a decorated veteran, as was my brother, father, uncles, grandfather, his brothers, great grandfather back threw the civil war. The Democratic party today, is not the Democratic party of my parents! Honestly, I think FDR would be a republican where he alive today! Please understand, I understand the label "Liberal" covers a lot of territory, but also try and understand my perspective. I'm 39, I grew up in the wake of the "Hippies", and by the time I came along, most real adults had had it up to their eyeballs with these brats, and wheren't about to take any more sh*t from some kid. Being from a military family, I remember the hippies a little differently than they remeber themselves. I remember a bunch of filthy, fowl mouthed, promiscuous, disrespectfull, junkies, prancing around with their little protest signs, refusing to work, stealing from their families to support their drug habits, demanding everything, contributing nothing, and openly disrespecting everything and everyone who sacrificed to give them the freedoms they abused! Most of them have dedicated their entire lives to diminishing or destroying everything their parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed their entire lives to build. They call this the "Counter-culture", and it's stated goal is "Rage against the Establishment" wich it defines as the established Government and Religion. Most of them have spent their entire lives doing an excellent job of exactly that! This is why our churches and government are in the sape they are in today! Our Beaurocracies are bloated, ineffective behemoths, incapible of performing the basic functions they where created for, and our Churches and temples are marginalized and openly mocked in the public sqare for their principals. I understand, there are "Liberals" like Zell Miller, and Joe Liberman, who don't fit this mold, and many of them have my respect, but they have been religated to an obscure and silent minority in the Democratic party today.
The sheeple problem has nothing to do with political correctness (the very idea of a PC world makes me vomit a little inside), it has more to do with education and application of skills. If someone wasn't raised around knives and guns, and tools for that matter, they won't be as likely to see the usefulness and value... and some will have the idea that a knife is a weapon no matter what.
I've had my fair share of sheeple experiences and I just chalk it up to their upbringing. As long as you're carrying legally and responsibly, you don't have to answer to anyone.
In your case though, I see this more as a liability issue, especially in health care facilities. There are some complete nutjobs in some of these places and you don't want them getting a hold of a knife.
Anyhoo, pardon my rambling and I now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
I disagree, I think it has little to do with our societies advancment from the industrial age into the information age, and everything to do with ideology, disrespect, and intolerance. I find no one more hatefull, biggoted, or intolerant, than the modern liberal. For example, they preach diversity and tolerance, but present them with diverse ideology, like say competing entirely on merrit, reducing entitlments, increasing personal accountability, choice in education, capping frivilous litigation, faith based inititives, etc...etc... See how open minded they are. Let's look for an example at an Ivory tower of liberal elitism, the ACLU. When was the last time you saw them defend a caucasion who was the victim of race discrimination by the likes of an Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? When was the last time they defended a Christian or Jew's freedom of religious expression? When was the last time they litigated against a violation of the "Second Amendment"? When was the last time they advocated enforcment of an imigration law, rather than opposed it's enforcment? They preach diversity and tolerance, but they certainly don't practice it.
I realize I can't steriotype all liberals or hold them to account for the sins of liberal terrorists like ELF/ALF, race baiters like Sharpton/Jackson, so called peace activist like Cindy Sheehan/Jane Fonda, or even the self promoting celebreties who denounce our country and promoting communist dictaters like Castro/Chavez even though they include major Democratic party leaders such as recent presidential canidates Al Gore and John Kerry, and Speaker of the house Pellosi. However, many liberals steriotype me or any conservative as backward red-necks, or Uncle Toms as I belive our current and previous scretaries of state where referred to by the presedent of the NAACP. However, understand that I no longer grant liberals much benefit of the doubt when they stand up and get all indignant making statements like "How dare you question my patriotism, I support our troops, just not this administration." when I've witnessed the patriotism of so damn many of them, burning bra's and draft cards, burning and wiping their asses with American Flags, standing at airports trowing trash and spitting at soldiers in uniform, heckling and humiliating WWII verterans, volonteering to be human shields for our enemies, traveling overseas and publicly denouncing their country, vandalizing national cemitaries, Etc.....Etc.... I have to admit, everytime one of them tries to steriotype me, or legislate something away, be it my guns, knives, cigarettes, SUV, or take the ten Commandments out of a public building, or whatever..... some real legitimate resentment bubbles up, I get a little steamed at the whole damn bunch, and anyone who defends them, is very likely to get an earfull!
