Comments | olegvolk: Killing with a sheet of paper.

olegvolk

Killing with a sheet of paper.

Dec 21, 2010 20:19

The hopeless nature of the TSA quest to forbid weapons may be illustrated with a simple sheet of typing paper. Take a sheet out of your printer. Roll it up into a cone with a point on one end and a 2-3" wide base. Hold the wide base in your hand and (carefully) jab something with the pointy end ( Read more... )

civil liberties, tsa, weapons

Comments 10

bandicoot December 22 2010, 02:33:58 UTC

To say nothing of the common ball point pen...

perspicuity December 22 2010, 03:49:23 UTC

grosse point blank :)

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ext_252790 December 22 2010, 03:21:43 UTC

I can remember having a similar discussion with a co-worker when I first became a gun owner. A "what if there were no guns" thing.

We worked in an auto parts store. He walked over to a display of open-end/box-end wrenches, selected one about 24 inches long and raised it up like a club. Then he picked up a socket sized between a golf ball and baseball and hefted as one would right before making a throw.

End of discussion.

Many weapons are where you find them. anonymous December 22 2010, 03:50:21 UTC

Shoe laces make a garott. Three d cell batteries in a strong sock make a good sap. Cross pens, titanium knitting needles (TSA legal) small padlock on laptop cable. Triangular file slid into the edge of you laptop case. A walking cane. Hairspray and a lighter. Para cord key lanyard and fifteen keys. My personal favorite, two chrome plated high polished 3/4 inch SAE fine thread nuts and a bandana through the holes. One smack with that in the side of the head and he's blowing bubbles in his cocoa forever.

Re: Many weapons are where you find them. maineshark December 22 2010, 12:21:57 UTC

Does the nuts have to be fine thread? What if all that's available is coarse? :)

Re: Many weapons are where you find them. anonymous December 26 2010, 15:06:01 UTC

But, but, all I have is metric!

perspicuity December 22 2010, 03:51:41 UTC

don't forget completely unarmed killing. proper training and mindset, and well, bad guys can just kill away. no weapons except themselves. how many martial arts movies have we seen?

improvised weapons? a flight with first class? wine bottles? silverware? crockery? hello? yah.

just wait until someone weaponizes babies! oh yeah!

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lonewolf545 December 22 2010, 04:55:35 UTC

Security wouldn't let me take a small pocket knife into the courtroom for a traffic offense, but had no problems with my METAL CLIPBOARD. I've had some local cops tell me they won't check inside someone's wallet anymore because a lot of people have taken to sharpening the edge of a credit card to use as a weapon... Being unarmed is a state of mind. And thinking you can ban weapons is a sign of insanity.