When camping tools are outlawed only outlaws will have camping tools
Apparently, the new threat to everyone is machetes:
That was the case as well in the Boston area, where a rise in gang violence involving machetes occurred in the past several years. The surrounding towns of Revere, Everett, Lynn and Chelsea have banned machetes, and there is now a bill before the Massachusetts Senate that would prohibit the carrying, sale and manufacture of the tool-turned-weapon.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
MS 13 is big on hacking folks up with machetes. It’s too bad that Bostonians can’t bring a gun to a machete fight.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Why is the MS 13 gang here? They are from El Salvador. Could they be coming in over our open southern border with all of those, as the president says, “good-hearted people who are just coming to work”?
Leave the borders open and ban machetes and whatever else the MS-13 gang chooses for weapons–yeah, that’s the way to fix it! I mean, we wouldn’t want them to think we were “xenophobes”, oh no! And then the criminals and gangs have more unarmed victoms upon which to prey–after all, that’s the work they came to seek.
Just keep voting for the CFR-globalists who control the Republican and Democratic establishments for more of these wonderful policies.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Here in Communist Controlled northern Virginia, MS-13 has become a thorn in the side of gun banning bigots everywhere.
With the intensive coverage of the MS13 wars and the brutal – mostly machette driven – attacks against other gang members and the innocent public at large, they have had a hell of a time chipping away at Virginia’s firearms laws.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
If the Border isn’t secure, nothing else CAN be done. Schools will never be able to budget, Mandatory Car insurance will be useless, welfare will be a joke…oh, plus someone will pack a bomb in with their pot shipment and melt New York.
But, you will get your leaves blown at a reduced rate, for cash.
March 9th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Looks like I need more shotgun shells in case those MS 13 guys try to scale the walls of my Crystal City condo.
Until I can get normal capacity SAIGA-12 magazines the 5 round variety will have to do.
March 9th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Amen Countertop,
Even in nice neighborhoods you’ll sometimes see MS-13 graffiti. When I’m out on my nightly stroll, I’m always packing.
March 9th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Is anyone else reminded of the term “…being necessary to the security of a free State…”?
Does anyone else see a case in point here?
I just want now to discuss any possible sanctions against any legislator or judge who has willfully disregarded the Constitution, resulting in The People’s increased vulnerability to violent crime (and I might add, terrorist attacks – the airlineers are, after all, gun free zones). What is the prescribed punishment for violating the Oath of Office, resulting in mass death?
March 9th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
I think that’s their hobby.
March 9th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
This is pathetic. The inmates are truly running the assylum.
As for the Mau-mauing trend, it was certaily a hard habit to get the tribes to break in Africa about 50 years ago.
I keep my Colt machete in the garage for opeing boxes, because I can’t legally carry a knife in Tn which has a blade length in excess of 4 inches – even with my handgun carry permit.
As a result, I carry Glocks and snubnoses for protection, which make me feel considerably safer than any knife or machete.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Lyle writes,
“I just want now to discuss any possible sanctions against any legislator or judge who has willfully disregarded the Constitution, resulting in The People’s increased vulnerability to violent crime (and I might add, terrorist attacks -”
Lyle, that’s THE ISSUE! Such behavior should result in impeachment and removal from office, but unfortunately there are two parties in Washington–and elsewhere–patriots and traitors. Unfortunately there are more of the latter and they will not deal with the treachery. The only “sanction is to vote them out of office, but the other problem is that most of the electorate will go out and vote again for two more open border, gun grabbing Democrats or Republicans, especially for President so as to obediently “not waste their vote”.
The only remedy:
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.” –Thomas Jefferson
March 10th, 2006 at 2:12 am
Banning Machetes?? How can anybody propose such a thing with a straight face? I can’t adequatly put into word the incredulity I am experiencing at this moment.
I wonder if we are too far gone as a government to return. Where does it end?
So now it is, you can take my gun,keyboard,machete when you pry it from…..
Frack this, I’m off to the range.
(h/t Kim)
March 10th, 2006 at 7:56 am
It gets worse.
This is from the text of the actual bill:
Any individual who requires a machete for the purposes of cutting vegetation shall register the machete with the local police department on an annual basis and, upon payment of an appropriate annual registration fee as determined by the local granting authority, shall be issued a permit authorizing him to possess the machete solely for the purposes of cutting vegetation.
Machete licenses. I’m not making this up.
More here.