The Deadly Leatherman Tool!

While I have always stored my Cold Steel Voyager or Puma 971 Game Warden (OK, it's old school, but still a nice knife) in check luggage, I have been taking my Leatherman WAVE in my laptop case for as long as I've owned it, just like my Mini Mag Maglite. These things are just indespensible on the road, whether at a tradeshow or in a hotel room. Nevermind how useful it might be if I was stuck on a hijacked plane with a terrorist who had a plastic knife! The WAVE's 3 inch locking blade is certainly useful as a weapon, and if a few people on those flights had them, they might have prevented a couple plane crashes last week?

I say build stronger doors into the cockpit to prevent unauthorized access and allow the Leatherman equipped passengers to handle the plastic knifed terrorists (even if they have Leathermen, there's more of us!). Of course the Cold Steel plastic "training knife" might be a little harder to deal with, but not an insurmountable problem.

jmx
 
Congressmen and reporters are demonizing knives and other tools right now because they know it's what a great many Americans want to hear. They want to feel "safer," and they don't care if that means other Americans have to give up their right to carry day-to-day useful, and potentially life-saving tools. Most people carry no tool whatsoever, so they suspect the worst of virtually anyone who does, and DO think the worst of anyone who carries even a little 1.25"-bladed SAK penknife.

IMO, it's laziness and the sheep mentality that is the culprit. People are being taught from the beginning to be fearful and to expect others to do all the work protecting them. They think a big part of that is to keep anyone from carrying any metallic-type object, even friggin' little nail clippers!!!:mad: I seriously doubt anyone has ended up on a slab as a result of being nailclipped to death.

You see on TV lots of interviews with American citizens around the country, and most are saying they'll give up freedoms if it makes them feel safer. I think there are probably at least as many people expressing the view of the importance of tools in daily life and life-saving emergencies, but obviously they never make it on TV.

Sure, a Leatherman tool could be used as a weapon, but you could maim or kill someone with just a sharpened lead pencil if you know how. If it continues they will never stop, then it will be pointy-toed cowboy boots, women's platform shoes, belts, a can of shaving cream, and toothbrushes. Sound far-fetched? Well, so does the banning of nail clippers.
Jim
 
Doesn't sound very ridiculous to me.

We've had all belts/collars/bracelets with studs/spikes/balls on them being confiscated as "deadly weapons" for years. I can see that one "Hand over the plane, or i'll take my belt off!!!"

James
 
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