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"Some say a gun is a killing instrument. Man is a killing instrument. The gun is only a tool, from which we have the pure mechanical force which can keep one alive or take a life. As a tool it is as weak or as strong as he or she who hold its, as good or as bad as the collective soul that keeps it in working order. "
- Brigid, Home on the Range
Yep.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to harm someone, anything is of use.
Being unable to carry a simple pocket-knife on a plane, I almost consider it a challenge to see how many TRULY deadly weapons I can walk right on with...
ReplyDeleteExamples: A stiff leather belt with a grommet in the tip, and a padlock. There are no nunchucks in the world that come even close to the lethality of this combo... You'd need a gun to keep me from killing you - especially on a plane!
Fisher Space-pen and a plastic piece that once locked my dryer's drum for shipping - combined they make a push-dagger sure to be fatal!
Then there's my cane -- a solid hickory shaft with a "hame-top" for a handle. Google "hame-top cane"... It's the world's most PERFECT shillelagh, even has a perfect little "curve" in the shaft right at the balance-point...
Some simple shaving on the edge of an old credit-card makes a knife you'd never believe... Sharp as the aforementioned, verboten pocket-folder...
I could go on and on... IIRC, my record was seven SERIOUSLY-deadly weapons on my person or in my laptop-bag - and again all went right through TSA examination as they're not "guns or knives so the half-wits don't see "weapons"...
The funniest bit is that the TSA monkeys always look the cane over with raised eyebrows, but none dare tell the crippled-dude he can't have his cane on the plane!
But hey -- at least they keep the world safe from nail-clippers and cigar-punches...