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Re: The right to bear arms & make salad
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:13:12 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Imri Goldberg:For Brian Loe and Drsolly: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7508404.stm "Most fatal stabbings involve a weapon that is easy to obtain and sharp with it - a kitchen knife. Would stopping the sale of long blades with sharp points help save lives?"*Do these teenager stabbings actually involve kitchen knives? I'd think that carrying around an ordinary kitchen knife would diminish your reputation among your peers. (In the homicide statistics, broken glasses and bottles routinely appear in the same category as knives, BTW.)
A certain peace-keeping unit had an unofficial "thing" among the troops. As you can't use your hot weapons unless fired upon, you can only use your hands or clubs (if you have them on you). So, if targeted with a knife or a stone, you are incapable or responding too well. What these folks did was sharpen their belt buckles--extremely--and use them. I think the commanding officers (very much) frown on that, but I'd have done the same in their position. Let's ban belts (or belt buckles). Gadi. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- The right to bear arms & make salad Imri Goldberg (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Florian Weimer (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Drsolly (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Gadi Evron (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Larry Seltzer (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Florian Weimer (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Richard M. Smith (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Larry Seltzer (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Richard M. Smith (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Drsolly (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Drsolly (Jul 22)
- Re: The right to bear arms & make salad Richard M. Smith (Jul 22)