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Why Not Just Ban Everything?
This would promote tyranny
and make criminals of us all.
By de Andréa
February 27, 2015
February 27, 2015
First soda pop larger than 4 oz. Now New York State moves to ban all knives and swords with a blade length longer than 4 inches. I’m sorry my
religion demands that I sell my clothes and buy a sword, and drink tall sodas,
so I answer to a higher authority. [Be]sides my Constitution says that I have
the right to keep and bear arms, it doesn’t specify what kind of arms or weapons.
This kind of vomitus legislation is what supports my theory
that if a society just makes enough laws then we will all eventually be
criminals and subject to arrest. Isn’t
this the delineation of tyranny?
People joked as the Obama administration and a communist-controlled
Senate tried to push through sweeping gun confiscation laws two years ago,
asking, "What will be next? Are we going to ban knives?"
Well, it's not a joke anymore. The State of New York is looking to ban all really
big knives. We call some of them machetes.
New York State Senator Tony Avella (D-Queens), the senator
that effectively pushed through the unlawful anti-American
SAFE Act in 2013 is now taking
aim on machetes. "The
fact that anyone can easily purchase this potentially lethal tool is just
crazy," he said.
"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Said
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
Is it really crazy to want to purchase an inexpensive tool that
was designed to help clear out a path in the woods?
New York has already banned smaller knives and listed
them as deadly weapons. According to an administrative code violation, New
Yorkers carrying a knife with a blade longer than 4 inches can already face up
to 15 days in jail and up to a $300 fine.
This would effectively ban all sharp objects, knives or swords larger
than 4 inches. I guess a four inch knife
can’t hurt or kill you even though your heart is less than four inches deep in
your chest. I think the limit should be less than an 1/8th of an inch that way one could barely scratch
themselves.
The New York Daily News gave two examples of people who were killed with machetes. The
mother of one of the victims is apparently not living full time on planet earth
as she said, "I didn't even know it was possible to buy a machete online. I had
no idea that it wasn't considered a deadly weapon. It should be."
Seriously? So, let me get this straight,
something is a "deadly weapon" if it can’ be used to kill or
hurt someone? OK, any of our Special Ops veterans out there want to communicate
to my world audience just what kinds of things you can "improvise"
should you find yourself without a knife or, look at this, a gun? It’s
a beautiful thing!
Let me illustrate. A Muslim
jihadist attacked two police
officers in New York with a hatchet. Should hatchets then
be considered deadly weapons because Obama’s
fellow jihadists use them for a purpose they were not intended for? Hey! I want
to be armed at least as good as the Muslims that are bent on murdering me.
How about a pencil or pen? Has no one seen the tactical pens that can be used for self-defense? If they can be used
rightly by law abiding citizens, then can they not also be used wrongly by
criminals? Of course!
What about baseball bats? Have people not been killed with baseball bats? I'm
guessing a sports-crazed culture would have a real problem with banning
baseball bats.
How about the automobile? How many people have
intentionally, not accidentally, used their car as a weapon against another
person? Are we really going to go down that road (no pun intended)?
The machete is viewed in New York the same as a meat cleaver. Is there anyone out there who is honestly going to stand up
and say they haven't heard of a murder involving a meat cleaver? Will that also
be on Senator Avella's agenda? I'm just wanting to see if he will be
consistent.
How about – screwdrivers, chainsaws, and drills, (which are
used by terrorists) hammers, crowbars, ball bearings, rocks, bricks,
stepping-stones, bottles of a certain size and weight, pitchforks, sharp
sticks, heavy lamp stands, large tool files, the point is, (pun intended) that
I’ll bet anyone of you could go into any hardware store and come out with a
whole shopping cart full of potentially sharp weapons that are sold every day.
Should we then ban hardware stores?
Ridiculous you say? I agree. We
should probably begin by punishing criminals instead of law abiding citizens.
I think this proves my point that these kind of laws are
not for preventing crime they are for preventing freedom.
The problem in our culture today is that we have abandoned dealing justly and
swiftly with criminals. We have
pampered and coddled them, we have blamed the cop for trying to arrest
them. We have done everything except follow
the Law of God in dealing with them. As a result, victims are forced to pay for
the housing, clothing and feeding of those who committed crimes against them or
their loved ones and instead of placing the blame on the criminal, we place it
on inanimate objects, tools etc. That is exactly what these kinds of
"laws" do. They criminalize a tool, which then makes criminals of
law-abiding citizens for owning them.
The real criminals like Senator Tony Avella are free to make it a crime
to be an American. You commit murder,
you die, simple as that.
If signed into law, this would make yet another normal,
useful tool illegal to own and would criminalize owners, landing them in jail
for years. As I've asked in previous articles, does this sound like justice? Or…does
it smell like tyranny?
THE BOTTOM LINE: As for people like Senator Avella, why don't you just
propose that everyone be forced into their own private bubble, unable to get
their hands on anything tangible? Why not ban everything? That would be a more
honest tyrannical approach.
I would like to propose that we ban Nazis like Senator Avella…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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