Maggie's Farm

“Can anyone name a significant American achievement in world affairs over the past five years?”

Sure, easy! We have spent more money we don't have than anyone, anytime and anywhere on earth!! Top That Michelangelo!

Open Carry. Depends on the location. Frankly in a urban area leaving an expensive rifle in the truck is risky. Some people might be like me with a camera, I always like to have a camera nearby and ready in case someone or something that really needs to be shot goes by.

Folding knives are a tool, I've skinned a lot of cable sheaths with my Buck 110. Had it on my belt several times when I found it necessary to duke it out, and it stayed there because I'm not stupid. Today in a lot of areas, well some people don't stand up and act like a man. They go home or to the car and get a firearm. Worlds gone crazy. But a knife fight between two men, either is a lot of posturing or both get cut. One guy pulls a knife and the other doesn't, one guy gets cut and the other goes to jail. But in NYC they are not talking about restricting blades from minors, they want to dis-arm, no de-tool , spell check didn't like that last one. At any rate what sort of anal jackass thinks that taking any sharp objects away from adults is a viable plan?

There's a lot of "it can't happen here" that is happening here, so it's illustrative to look to the former British Empire to see the direction we are traveling towards.

In 1996, knife-carrying was made presumptively illegal, even without the "offensive" intent to use the weapon defensively. A person accused of the crime is allowed "to prove that he had a good reason or lawful authority for having" the knife when he did

British subjects and foreign tourists have discovered unleashing the dreaded pen-knife can result in criminal prosecution; a female American tourist was charged with "carrying an offensive weapon" for using her small knife to fend off attackers, a British businessman was lucky to have been released on a suspended sentence after saving himself from likely death in a subway attack by using a sword-stick (blade concealed within a cane). Sword-sticks are now illegal and banned in the UK.

The principal of "self-defense" is dead in England, all subjects are expected to acquiesce in their death in a lawful manner, corpses found to have fought back or to not be carrying the required documentation will be fined. So a minimum balance must be maintained in the bank at all times. This requirement is waived for all persons not nature born or with felony convictions.

That's why in this country, the 2nd Amendment defenders won't give an inch.