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I was at a meeting last night where we were discussing the coffeehouse we will have next month on guns. Someone raised this event. I think that the gun controllers in the group were saying that this shows that we may always have nuts among us, but with knives they do much less violence.
Maybe we should arm the military only with knives. And maybe billy clubs.
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From: Hunter Gray <[email protected]>
To: Redbadbear <[email protected]>
Cc: Bear Without Borders <[email protected]>; SycamoreCanyon <[email protected]>; marxist <[email protected]>; newgreencanada <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Apr 10, 2013 2:13 pm
Subject: [Redbadbear] Just wondering
The multi-knifings in Texas yesterday constitute yet again another signal tragedy at the hands of a deranged person.
But, in the present atmosphere where prohibitionists are trying to ride high (but to no avail on guns), I am wondering when we'll hear the shrill cries for "knife control". Actually, many schools indeed, and some municipal jurisdictions of which I am aware, already have those.
But the prohibitionists always want Federal laws.
What might "knife control" constitute? Background checks/registration for all who seek knives with blades, say, over one inch long? Banning all knives with blades beyond four inches?
Would "butter knives" be exempted?
Lots of nefarious possibilities in this.
I've recounted a time or two on RBB how, when I was about ten years old, a drunken white man tried to kill my dog. I rushed the guy with my "fishknife" -- with about a five inch and very pointed, sharp blade, and the man -- who had my dog by the collar and was slamming him hard again and again on a pickup's hood -- let my dog go and backed off pronto. Frankly, if he hadn't, I would have slashed the hell out of him and might well have killed the s.o.b.
I know our esteemed direct ancestor, John Gray, the Mohawk fur hunter in the Far West, would have looked approvingly on that. He is labeled by Western historians of the period as "a ferocious knife fighter." He once almost killed the fur entrepreneur, Milton Sublette, down at Bear Lake, just south of right here, when Sublette made unwanted advances to a Gray daughter in her early teens. Sublette was nursed back to health by "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick, a well known mountain man, but took a long time to heal. http://hunterbear.org/GRAY%20LANDS%20AND%20GRAY%20GHOSTS.htm
I like big knives.
Best, Hunter Bear
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