26July06

Another dreary, media leftist published an article in today's Wall S treet Journal, entitled, "How New, Deadly Pocket knives Became a $1 Billion Business." The article sensationalizes this non-issue by stating, =80 These knives are faster than a switchblade, yet still legal!" It also makes vague reference to a mysterious "FBI bulletin" that cites an =80=9Cemerging threat" (we apparently don't get to know to whom) posed by knives. The author continues, "... laws

across the US are a mishmash because (legislators) really don't know anythi ng about knives".

Now, that part is actually true! Legislators know precious little about anything, nor do they make an effort to educate themselves, but that never dissuades them from doing their best to regulate us, and everything we own a nd use, to death.

Happily, in most parts of the Country, knives are essentially unregulated.

Even laws prohibiting this or that kind or size of knife are largely unenforced, and, with a little imagination, one can pretty much get and car ry any kind of knife he wants, laws and regulations on the subject notwithstanding .

But, of course, the paranoid media, as always looking desperately for something of which they can be frightened, suddenly sees knives as a =80 new" menace, knives that have been around since long before most of them were born! Not

content to merely advocate the elimination of the private ownership of guns , the media, evidently considering that battle mostly won, has now turned the ir fickle attention to blades. And, as with anti-gun hysteria, they offer no facts, no legitimately persuasive contestation, just shallow, emotional trumpery, hoping to frighten their readership into suspending common sense.

They are a disgrace to their profession and deserve to be shunned.

/John