Proposed Boston Knife Licensing

Maybe these things go in cycles. Years ago, Boston was known for banning books.

Seems to me "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Peyton Place" both got big publicity mileage out of having been "banned in Boston!"

Try banning a book in Boston, these days. (In other words, they take the 1st Amendment very seriously now, as they should.)

One can hope they'll eventually take the same turn on the 2nd Amendment... but I am not holding my breath.
 
Vampires for the banning of wooden stakes and the licensing of stores that sell dowels! I have a very sharp oak stake I made out of section of tree limb we cut down.

Sorry - you would have to ban entire sections of Home Depot, etc. Multitools, etc.
 
Of all the absurd, idiotic...good goddess I don't have enough adjectives in my vocabulary to even make an attempt at a tirade.

Reminds me of a juvenile detention center I interned at. Ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils were banned due to their propensity for use as weapons....but wooden pencils, still nice stabbing weapons with the added bonus of being able to break them off inside the wound, were absolutely fine.

They didn't even count the darn things before and after classes.

I like knives, perhaps even more than guns (*gasp:eek:).
A knife is a tool, as is a gun for that matter, and is only as good or evil as the hand that hand that wields it. Guess that whole saying about "When guns are outlawed..." needs to be amended to include knives...and pry bars.
 
Pretty soon,,,

False teeth will be banned.

Years ago I heard a "filk" song,,,
It was titled "Check Your Weapons at the Door"

It was about three Scottish clans having a meeting,,,
But you had to check your weapons at the door,,,
First swords, then spears, then knives,,,
Then canes, then spoons, then quills,,,
Then fingernails had to be pulled,,,
Then teeth had to be covered,,,
It go silly from there.

If anyone (probably from the Society for Creative Anachronism) has them,,,
I would be eternally grateful for an E-mail with a copy of those lyrics.

It's the perfect anthem for fighting needless and ineffectual legislature.

But that's an inherent evil of an electorate,,,
They will jump on any bandwagon that gives them exposure.

Aarond
 
Vampires for the banning of wooden stakes and the licensing of stores that sell dowels!
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Well, duh. We have to keep the vampires safe so they can keep making Twilight movies to entertain the wee drunken children!

While we're at it, I think that the supply of silver on the market is grossly under-regulated. Won't someone think of the wee little werewolves?
 
Ice picks and philips screwdrivers are extremely effective.
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Better yet, duct tape a screwdriver to the side of one of those unstabby knives. That way you can penetrate and cut.

You also get the added bonus of being able to perform small repairs before and after you stab your victim.
 
Let's just hope that no strangulation murders are committed in Boston.
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Yeah, but wait a sec, wasn't there that guy a few years back nicknamed the....oh, now I get it....:D

About as ironic as England banning stabby knives...

It should be interesting to see their response to automobile fatalities
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Don't go givin' anyone ideas now, or all Bostonians(?) with have governors placed on their cars. Try makin' a beer run to the packie (sp?) with a car that won't go over 25
 
It should be interesting to see their response to automobile fatalities.
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I lived in southern New England for five years in the late 80s and early 90s. I said back then that Boston drivers needed some kind of extra special licensing...
 
Anyone FROM Boston chime in yet?

I've lived in it or in sight of it for 40 years now

And this stuff is, to paraphrase the honorable Governor La Petomane, to protect some peoples' phoney baloney jobs. Harumph, harumph. Never mind the fact that this isn't being tough on crime, just give me a harumph.

As for driving in Boston, you mamby-pambies maybe just don't know how to deal with real live driving action. This is the big leagues :D
 
As for driving in Boston, you mamby-pambies maybe just don't know how to deal with real live driving action. This is the big leagues.
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Spoken like a man who's never driven in Atlanta, the magical town in which folks can type text messages at 90mph and turn signals are for sissies :)
 
Atlanta drivers are simply more likely to kill through absent-mindedness. I swear, if I had a big sharp knife, I'd...I'd...grrr....;)
 
Having lived in Boston and near Atlanta, I'd say the roads (and particularly the signs) are much worse in Boston, but the drivers are (mostly) worse in Atlanta.

The exception would be rotaries/roundabouts. Boston/Massachusetts drivers can be a crazy mix there, since the laws on who has right of way changed to align with the rest of the area. Older drivers may try to force in from the right, instead of yielding to cars in the roundabouts. (The right-hand drivers having right-of-way used to give Massachusetts drivers a bad name in other New England states, where cars in the roundabouts had right-of-way.)

Neither Boston nor Atlanta drivers have anything on Miami and Fort Lauderdale drivers, though. 90mph while texting, during a Florida thunderstorm, on I-95...
 
I have lived and/or been and/or driven in every state in the Union, except Hawaii, and yes, I have driven in Atlanta before the improved freeway through town, and after. I have also flown in and out of Boston's Airport, and driven on Boston City Streets.

I would much prefer driving in Atlanta...On top of that I can carry in Atlanta, and not in Boston.
 
So I am guessing there will be some law forbidding my carry of a Buck 110 folder?
Or my Buck 119?

And that cute little round nose knife would do fine work as a stabber in the hands of the determined!

Brent
 
Ok, I'll settle this. From now on, there can be nothing in the universe whch is sharp or pointy enough to penetrate human skin. Only sporks (from recycled plastic, of course) are permitted, for food processing, preparation, and consumption. This will have the beneficial effect of dramatically raising employment in the food manufacture and food service industries. Who could argue with this very reasonable measure?
 
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