Police See Surge In Gang Attacks Using Machetes

and circular saws; I want to see gang members armed with circular saws.



munk
 
screwdrivers, recriprocating saws, electric drills
and nail guns. Don't forget brush hooks, shovels, hoes,
chains, rebar or the battery acid.
Not to mention propane tourches, golf clubs,and tennis rackets.

and who could forget the pipe!
 
BruiseLeee said:
The Home Despots in my area don't sell machetes. :( I think the only place you can get those around here are at the military surplus stores.

Ball peen hammers are still available though.
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Slightly O.T. but I read a interview with Peter LaGana (Tomahawk guru, you can do a search on him interesting stuff) and they were asking him about the best "tool" for...errr...removing people silently in the field. I think that they expected him to talk about tomahawks being great at it, anyway he said that the best thing to use was a ball peen hammer. I found it interesting anyway.
 
brantoken said:
just because some newspaper reporter/editor are idiots doesn't
mean that anything is wrong with liberal ideas....
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then why is it that most if not all of those control ideas come from liberals? sorry, couldn't resist it ;)

in all seriousness, that article is a great example of media conveying a message taken completely out of context. All misinformation aside, something much more serious is wrong with it.

Weapons available to the civilian community can be viewed as a pyramid, with the highest ratio of danger to utility topping it, and the lowest ratio being at the bottom. By this rational, automatic weapons would turn somewhere closer to the top, cars - somewhere in the middle, and pencils - closer to the bottom.

Control activists tend to strip slices of that pyramid one at a time using the same approach, brilliantly displayed by this article: by emphausizing that the next slice is growingly responsible for number of attacks on civilians. Duh. Of course it is - as long as there is a list, something has to top it, even if everything more dangerous than a rope is already banned.

Sometimes I wish I could talk to those authors, and say - very very slowly, because not all of them seem to possess proper comprehensive skills - that it's not the tool that was responsible for the attack, it's whoever bears it - it, and ill will. Banning the tool would just put more usage pressure on whatever the next slice of the pyramid turns out to be. That the only reason machetes are getting bad press today is because guns where outlawed. Speaking of which: did the number of attacks ever drop since enforcing gun laws? Highly unlikely, otherwise we'd be hearing about it left and right: politicians are not the kind to hide their success. Number of attacks didn't really change, BUT! the next slice of the pyramid is now responsible for them, taking the heat and getting bad press. This may continue forever. In the former Soviet Union they used to ban karate schools.

I hope that one day we won't get to see an article with a shocking title: "An illegal shovel was found in farmer's house, the arrested owner claims that he used it for work" But, then again - perhaps that's what it would take to wake up America.
 
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