Why Do People Say Lynn C. Thompson Is Controversial

[Unbreakable]

I'm a little late in this post, but the Knives are tools thing is a little old. Tools as much as a gun is a "Tool" to Hunt or for self defence. one of the only knives thats Really a "Tool" Might be a sninner. Not the Knives that any of us collect. Not Busse or Strider,Emerson or even Cold Steel. I've built over 500 houses and I NEVER once used any knife like that for anything. Open a Box With a Box Cutter. "Batton" with a Hatchet. Open mail with a letter opener. Get a Leatherman. Com'on. They are concealable weapons plain and simple. Modern day short swords if you will. And anyone that doubts thier Value in Self Defence lives in wonderland. How can something that weighs 4 ounces or less and nobody can see, that can sever limbs and tendons. Rip a throat out or peirce and stop a heart with one strike have no or "Limited" Value in Self defence.

No one said they aren't dangerous... but in a competition with a gun... KNife loses... and loses bad. I consider myself handy with a gun... not a master mind you... but handy. I'd gladly take on someone titles "The most dangerous man in the world with a knife" with my gun. And he'll lose too. Cause gun beats knife. Everytime.

Why do Cops shoot people waving a knife at them?

Becuase Gun Beats Knife.

Is a Benchmade 710 a "Tool". I say it's a great tool for Destroying a human body, and Yes, I can also make a penut butter and jelly sandwitch with it,LOL.

Yes a 710 is a tool. I can make a sandwich with a putty knife... and even kill a man maybe... does this keep it from being a tool? Listen... you might want to watch wanting to lable a knife a weapon so quickly... there is no Knife Lobby... and if someone decides to make them illegal weapons... no one is gonna stop them. You might wanna be happy with the designation tool.

Just ask your self why do Cops SHOOT people that pull knives on them? Besause they don't want to die???

They WILL shoot you if you go swinging a screw driver or a hammer or folding chair at them as well. Cetain things... are not weapons until deployed as such... a knife fits into this category. A tool every second of it's life until deployed as a weapon. I see the definition of a weapon as something that has no other purpose but to destroy, injure, or kill living things. Knives have many more applications and killing and injuring are not even a knife's primary function... it's a cutting tool. A gun can do nothing else but shoot and wound whatever is in front of it. You can't make a sandwich with it, can't do yard work with it, can break down a cardboard box with it (LOL at least not in any efficient and cost effective way), it does harm... nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Unbreakable]

They are concealable weapons plain and simple. Modern day short swords if you will. And anyone that doubts thier Value in Self Defence lives in wonderland. How can something that weighs 4 ounces or less and nobody can see, that can sever limbs and tendons. Rip a throat out or peirce and stop a heart with one strike have no or "Limited" Value in Self defence.

Addressing this in particular... I think you watch too many movies. If you've ever seen a stabbing in real life the human body is very tough and can take much punishment from a knife. Unless you are carrying a short sword you are not taking off anyones arms in one swing, nor are you stopping their heart in one thrust. And they're going to be fighting back, scratching, biting, kicking, and punching you. You really have to commit yourself if you're going to end someone with a knife. It's work. It's not like in the movies where you stab someone... they look at you with that confused "I've just been stabbed" look and then fall over. Not reality. And you better hope they don't have a gun... cause then it will be you who is in trouble and not in control of the situation. The man with the gun is king.

 

[Unbreakable]

Unbreakable...I'll try to explain this one last time...the ghetto slang that severedthumbs is using is from a worthless culture, not from decent black folks. There is a difference. Black folks who want nothing to do with the gangsta culture do not talk like that. It is ignorant talk.
So we have these white trash kids copying the speech from the worst elements of black society.

So you say, but the verbage isn't a fixed part of the actions of such people. Take this guy for example... he speaks in a way that would have you lable him garbage, yet he's not gang banggin, he's not drive by shooting... he's taking care of his wife and little girl if I remember. So how is he trash (as I;ve heard some call him" simply because he speaks in a way you find distastful? If you can make a connection to that and make it make sense... You deserve an award of some kind for stretching the boundries of logic. One's language (It's actually slang but we'll call it language for simplification) has nothing to do with their actions. And there are young white, black, latino, and asian men that do drive bys, gang bang, and such... and they don't talk like that. It is a narrow view that immediately wants to make a connection where there is none.

 

[AnimalHousePA]

Unbreakable: my hat goes off to you...you are a one man BS factory!

 

[jill jackson]

OK, folks here's a picture in case anyone doesn't get the knife to a gun fight deal,yet.

 

[ADD]

Unbreakable...I'll try to explain this one last time...the ghetto slang that severedthumbs is using is from a worthless culture, not from decent black folks. There is a difference. Black folks who want nothing to do with the gangsta culture do not talk like that. It is ignorant talk.
So we have these white trash kids copying the speech from the worst elements of black society.

Well put.

There is a whole cottage industry that profits from and peddles to youth the speech, music, violence against cops and women, glorifying quick $ through drug sales, and by not reporting crime and doing poor in school.

A garbage culture where street "cred" is gained by the above or just wannabes who copy the style of those that do.

So, what you're all saying is that when Lynn Thompson goes hunting, he shoots his handgun upside down?

Exactly!
That and the spinners he puts on the Rover when on Safari on the Vegas strip regardless if it is sunny or cloudy...

Come down to the range... I'll give you a demo.

Thanks, but unless you are an advanced tactical firearms instructor I am quite comfortable with my current skilz, bro....

 

[Phil Elmore]

OK, folks here's a picture in case anyone doesn't get the knife to a gun fight deal,yet.

The moral of this story is, don't mess with guys who carry pistols photoshopped into their hands.

 

[J_Curd]

Perfectly closed minded you mean?

Keep "defending the crips who flex the 9". If disliking people who glorify criminals who shoot people in their car makes me "close minded" please, send me the contract, and I will sign up. It doesnt make me close minded, it makes me dislike people who GLORIFY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Obviously you like defending them, so I DONT LIKE YOU EITHER.

Thank god the amount of jackasses here is low, but they do seem to congregate and have pack instinct.

 

[John T Wylie Jr]

 

[severedthumbs]

guys this thread is serving no more purpose other than making good people argue with one another.

How about we all just agree to let this one die?

 

[Unbreakable]

There is a whole cottage industry that profits from and peddles to youth the speech, music, violence against cops and women, glorifying quick $ through drug sales, and by not reporting crime and doing poor in school.

I don't disagree with that... but are you saying that severedthumbs takes part in such things. That's the point I'm trying to make. Many are assuming that he is "That Guy" when there is not evidence to that point. He's just being judged by the way he speaks. It is being implied that a person is trash simply because of the way they talk. That is ignorant.

Thanks, but unless you are an advanced tactical firearms instructor I am quite comfortable with my current skilz, bro....

Don't you mean Tacticool?

 

[Unbreakable]

The moral of this story is, don't mess with guys who carry pistols photoshopped into their hands.

LOL Photoshopped gun doesn't beat knife.

 

[Unbreakable]

Keep "defending the crips who flex the 9". If disliking people who glorify criminals who shoot people in their car makes me "close minded" please, send me the contract, and I will sign up. It doesnt make me close minded, it makes me dislike people who GLORIFY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Obviously you like defending them, so I DONT LIKE YOU EITHER.

Thank god the amount of jackasses here is low, but they do seem to congregate and have pack instinct.

Oooooo... I must have hit a nerve. So you're just gonna take your ball and go home huh? People who glorify violence isn't even remotely what we're talking about here. We are talking about making wide sweeping judgements about someone based on the way they talk. If Severedthumbs was talking about how much fun it is to shoot and kill innocent people in their cars and how good the money is selling drugs to children... I wouldn't defend that. Nor should you. And coming against that wouldn't make you close minded. What makes you close minded is that you assume he does those things simply because of the way he talks. And if that's something you're proud to sign up for... then I feel sorry for you. But to each his own.

 

[Unbreakable]

Unbreakable: my hat goes off to you...you are a one man BS factory!

I must give it to you... you countered my argument with the class and logic of a master. You got anything substantial to add to this or are you just gonna call BS and stick your fingers in your ears and going LA LA LA LA LA LA.

 

[severedthumbs]

one thing, to all you guys that think hip-hop is all about guns and violence and sex then you are sadly mistaken. there is a whole subculture of hip-hop called conscious or underground hip-hop. perhaps some of you cats should check it out.


Conscious hip hop or socially conscious hip-hop is a form of hip hop that focuses on social issues. It is not necessarily overtly political, but it discusses social issues and conflicts. Themes of conscious hip hop include religion, aversion to violence, African American culture and advancement, the economy, or simple depictions of life in the projects/ghetto that reveal the struggle of ordinary people. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" was an early and hugely influential political and conscious hip hop track, decrying the poverty, violence, and dead-end lives of the black youth of the time.

The audience for conscious rap is largely underground. Most conscious hip hop artists have not attained the same level of commercial success as mainstream hip-hop, though there are some notable exceptions to this.

Like many cases within music, the umbrella term was originally coined by music audiences and critics rather than the actual artists themselves and has produced considerable backlash in regards to the labeling. Some of the most prominent artists affiliated with the term have openly criticized and deregarded it. Rap artist Mos Def once stated:
“ They keep trying to slip the 'conscious rapper' thing on me...I come from Roosevelt Projects, man. The ghetto. I drank the same sugar water, ate hard candy. And they try to get me because I'm supposed to be more articulate, I'm supposed to be not like the other Negroes, to get me to say something against my brothers. I'm not going out like that, man.”

Similarly, Talib Kweli confirmed in a recent interview with VIBE magazine that the title of his next album will be Prisoner of Consciousness, a reference to his constant labeling as a "conscious rapper".

 

[Bubbanumber1]

I thought this thread was about Lynn Thompson and Cold Steel? As Lynn's personal agent on this forum I'm appalled at the lack of focus when it comes to complaints about him. How about some completely made up bullshit just to stir things up for the holidays?


I was going to post earlier but I kept falling asleep from Sharp Phil again going into detail about useless dribble.

The Martialist, For Those Who Type Unfairly!​

 

[SIFU1A]

No one said they aren't dangerous... but in a competition with a gun... KNife loses... and loses bad. I consider myself handy with a gun... not a master mind you... but handy. I'd gladly take on someone titles "The most dangerous man in the world with a knife" with my gun. And he'll lose too. Cause gun beats knife. Everytime.




Becuase Gun Beats Knife.



Yes a 710 is a tool. I can make a sandwich with a putty knife... and even kill a man maybe... does this keep it from being a tool? Listen... you might want to watch wanting to lable a knife a weapon so quickly... there is no Knife Lobby... and if someone decides to make them illegal weapons... no one is gonna stop them. You might wanna be happy with the designation tool.



They WILL shoot you if you go swinging a screw driver or a hammer or folding chair at them as well. Cetain things... are not weapons until deployed as such... a knife fits into this category. A tool every second of it's life until deployed as a weapon. I see the definition of a weapon as something that has no other purpose but to destroy, injure, or kill living things. Knives have many more applications and killing and injuring are not even a knife's primary function... it's a cutting tool. A gun can do nothing else but shoot and wound whatever is in front of it. You can't make a sandwich with it, can't do yard work with it, can break down a cardboard box with it (LOL at least not in any efficient and cost effective way), it does harm... nothing more, nothing less.

i agree with a lotta what ya say but the man with the gun wont win 100% of the time, men like mike echanis, bob kasper, chris carraci, bram frank, and others would all certainly stand a fighting chance & ya wouldnt go unscathed either in all likelihood even if ya did win & i'm not talking about them having a sword either, a 4" folder would work for them.

really, in life and especially in SD there are very few absolutes in anything.

 

[wolfmann601]

Ah, Hip-hop and rap:

Verse 1;

We pick on LT cause the mans' a jerk
He thinks he's a warrior, a black op killin Merc
He steals designs and makes not one knife
He's a bad Mofo that could end your life
On them rough bad streets of South LA
You pack a cold steel if you wanna play
Your gat's a 9, your look is mean
LA ain't LA, it means New Orleans!!

The Chorus:
Blah Blah Blah

 

[zenheretic]

Oooooo... I must have hit a nerve. So you're just gonna take your ball and go home huh? People who glorify violence isn't even remotely what we're talking about here. We are talking about making wide sweeping judgements about someone based on the way they talk. If Severedthumbs was talking about how much fun it is to shoot and kill innocent people in their cars and how good the money is selling drugs to children... I wouldn't defend that. Nor should you. And coming against that wouldn't make you close minded. What makes you close minded is that you assume he does those things simply because of the way he talks. And if that's something you're proud to sign up for... then I feel sorry for you. But to each his own.

Mr. Tool, you are quite mistaken, and burying your head in the sand doesn't change the culture he was glorifying.

 

[zenheretic]

guilt??? lies??? I didnt know you were an expert on me. lol okay

I wish I could be as smart as you guys believe you are.

I'm not going to get into details about my life on this board. Honestly I do not care one iota if you or anyone else believe things or not. If anyone wants to stop running their mouth and meet up and discuss shit over a beer then okay. But if not then stfu. There are much more important things we need to worry about instead of how someone talks. I cant believe I am still discussing this. So consider this my last post on this.

It is almost entertaining to see how the simpletons behave once their tomfoolery fails to elicit the outcome they were striving for.

to early it is only 1630 here. no strip tonight, to busy packing.:grumpy:

guys this thread is serving no more purpose other than making good people argue with one another.

How about we all just agree to let this one die?

one thing, to all you guys that think hip-hop is all about guns and violence and sex then you are sadly mistaken. there is a whole subculture of hip-hop called conscious or underground hip-hop. perhaps some of you cats should check it out.


Conscious hip hop or socially conscious hip-hop is a form of hip hop that focuses on social issues. It is not necessarily overtly political, but it discusses social issues and conflicts. Themes of conscious hip hop include religion, aversion to violence, African American culture and advancement, the economy, or simple depictions of life in the projects/ghetto that reveal the struggle of ordinary people. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" was an early and hugely influential political and conscious hip hop track, decrying the poverty, violence, and dead-end lives of the black youth of the time.

The audience for conscious rap is largely underground. Most conscious hip hop artists have not attained the same level of commercial success as mainstream hip-hop, though there are some notable exceptions to this.

Like many cases within music, the umbrella term was originally coined by music audiences and critics rather than the actual artists themselves and has produced considerable backlash in regards to the labeling. Some of the most prominent artists affiliated with the term have openly criticized and deregarded it. Rap artist Mos Def once stated:
“ They keep trying to slip the 'conscious rapper' thing on me...I come from Roosevelt Projects, man. The ghetto. I drank the same sugar water, ate hard candy. And they try to get me because I'm supposed to be more articulate, I'm supposed to be not like the other Negroes, to get me to say something against my brothers. I'm not going out like that, man.”

Similarly, Talib Kweli confirmed in a recent interview with VIBE magazine that the title of his next album will be Prisoner of Consciousness, a reference to his constant labeling as a "conscious rapper".

So much for last posts on "this"...