Pushing a Right to Bear Arms, the Sharp Kind - NYTimes.com:
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"You call that a knife? Now this is a knife." Image via NY Times. |
Arizona’s transformation, and the recent lifting of a ban on switchblades, stilettos, dirks and daggers in New Hampshire, has given new life to the knife rights lobby, the little-known cousin of the more politically potent gun rights movement. Its vision is a knife-friendly America, where blades are viewed not as ominous but as tools — the equivalent of sharp-edged screw drivers or hammers — that serve useful purposes and can save lives as well as take them.
Nice. A bunch of wannabe Crocodile Dundees walking around with pig-stickers strapped to their belts. What could go wrong?