[TheForge] Knife insanity

[Andy Vida]

"Michael H. Murphy" wrote:
> 
> One thing a lot of these "journalists" don't seem to consider: if you don't
> want the items being made(knives, guns, swords, veal cutlets, or whatever),
> don't flippin' buy 'em. 

	That doesn't fly, especially with their fallacious modes of
	argument.  What needs to be exposed are the erroneous assumptions
	such as "knives are evil, dangerous, DEADLY weapons" and that
	"only evil, dangerous people want to have them" and "something
	HAS to be DONE to stop it", crowned by the ever popular "If it
	saves just ONE life it's worth it" and "do it for THE CHILDREN".

	May all such verminous scum go straight to hell forthwith.

> What happened to personal responsibility?

	Are you joking?  Personal responsibility is the one thing
	that is shunned more actively in the USA than anything else
	I can think of.  You'd have better chances of retaining an
	intact pecker after taking a blowjob from a piranha than
	seeing a mass sweep to honest assumption of personal 
	responsibility.

	And besides, why should people do it when every government
	and corporate entity they lay eyes on is up to their eyeballs
	in filth, much, shyte, and a categorical refusal to assume
	anything even vaguely related to the third cousin responsibility?
	These entities crap all over people on a mass basis and
	walk free and clear.  I really cannot blame people for being
	as they are.  I may find it despicable, but I still understand
	why they do it.

>  A
> merchant sells his wares; is he responsible for what is done with them?

	In AmeriKa (sieg fookin HEIL!!) that is precisely what "they"
	are trying to establish... at least for certain industries.
	Look at what those gun control bastards have been up to, suing
	gun manufacturers for the acts of the scum who take their
	products and hurt others with them.  But we have not seen a
	car manufacturer sued when some stupid drunken prick wipes out
	an entire family in a blackout jaunt through town or runs his
	girlfriend over in a rage.  Talk about double standard baloney.
	But what bothers me most is that there is no critical mass for
	action against this brand of abusive crap.  Too many people are
	bemused with their peckers as they sit in mesmerized fascination
	with the stupid football game... who cares if guys like Ashcroft
	are slowly stealing your rights away... just as long as you retain
	the right to root for your stupid home team, drink as much
	budweiser as you can before passing out, and choke your chicken
	in the comfort of your living room.  Oh yay... isn't
	freedom great?

>  How
> many murders have been committed with fantasy blades as opposed to standard
> kitchen knives?

	You seem to think that truth and logic have something to do
	with something.  It doesn't.  If it did, we would not have
	99% (and I mean that very literally) of the law that is on 
	the books.  I confidently assert that there are but a handful
	of people to be found anywhere in these United States of
	American that would argue against laws against murder, rape,
	robbery, assault, and other such true crimes.  Ask the masses
	what they think of laws against prostitution, drug use, and
	tax evasion and I suspect you will fine a widely differing
	opinion.  People show a lack of respect for law that merits
	no respect, by and large.  That is a good thing; it tells
	me that somewhere deep inside their otherwise preoccupied,
	bemused skulls, there is a brain resident and some portion
	of it has the power switch in the "ON" position.  What is
	a shame is that we don't fight more devotedly and effectively
	to root out the filth that would see us become subjects of
	an omnipotent nanny state.  The longer it goes on like this,
	the less likely it will be that we as a nation will ever be
	able to regain our freedoms.  but people have been very 
	effectively distracted from such considerations, partly through
	mass media, partly though school systems that provide the
	lowest quality education imaginable, partly through a
	marketing culture that bemuses the consumer with all manner
	of trivial, shiney-jingly things and convinces them that
	these things are more important than being wild and free
	beings whose love of liberty is greater than their love of
	any token fortune or trinket waved in their faces.

	Oh jeeez... you got me going.  Sorry.
	

> 
> I'd like to continue, but every time I see one of these things, I have to go
> puke.  RRAALLPPHH!!!

	Good idea.  I'm next.