colin.p wrote:So far in this country (Canada) we can carry knives, but I can see the winds of change happening and knives becoming a subject of restriction. Up here, we typically have less tolerant (liberal) governments that take it upon themselves to decide what's good for us. However, I have found that no matter what color they are, whether blue, red, orange or green, they like to restrict freedoms for the populace, but not themselves.
Colin I think you're spot on!
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
Thanks, Jerry, I needed to see that. I get complacent sometimes, and in these days that could be a very dangerous thing. I will do all I can to give support where it's needed. God knows these liberal lefties are out to get all that is good for Americans.
And thanks smokepole for the point of view of someone who has already been suffering what we are heading into. The Heraclitus warrior story was uplifting, and I deeply share your fear for my childrens, 2yrs. & 7yrs. old, future America. I will keep up the fight as long as I can still draw a breath, and then a little longer. I would gladly tell those who oppose that they can have my knife only when I have plunged it so far up their butt that I can no longer grasp the handle!
Politicians are the lowest life form on earth; Democrats are the lowest form of politicians - General George Patton
Thanks Mel, it's the work of Doug Ritter of Knife Rights and Jan Billeb of AKTI that will help answer the original question of this thread. IMHO, we will win the war but loose some battles along the way.
Great story if you haven't read it.
Tom
AAPK Administrator
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Give boldly. Leave the rest to God.
Well..... everything happening in our country boils down to one thing...... The golden rule.
The ones with the GOLD.... RULE.
We all know....You can't legislate morality.
The hand full of politicians in Washing town know that too.... BUT, another thing they know is a dis-armed people can be controlled better than a bunch of people with guns and knives. The puppets at the capitol who are SUPPOSED TO BE looking out for us (the people) are now controlled by the few with the money.
So..... YES.... THEY will eventually make it against the law to walk among the other zombies they have created with anything more than a tooth pick. BUT, then again, a toothpick might be too sharp... they may outlaw that too.
"Life is tough.... but it's tougher if you're stupid."....John Wayne
This is what I don't get--we've shut down the mental institutions, and even now, have a continuing trend of fewer, and fewer mental health beds each year, and all the while, mass shootings and the like are getting more common. Many who carried out the shootings were being investigated by the FBI, who chose to do nothing.
Those who seem want to ban any kind of "weapon" are manipulating the victims and families of the victims of these tragedies into soldiers for their cause. What these people need to be complaining about is the closing of the mental institutions and the FBI doing nothing in the instances where they investigated people who would later carry out a terrorist attack.
My feelings are and will always remain the same .
ain't nobody , I mean , " NOBODY " , getting , or taking
anything , nada , nothing , of mine , EVER , not even the
gumbement . period . im a proud American and a life
member of the N.R.A. as long as i live and get to wake up
every morning thanks to GOD I will keep what belongs to me .
if i have offended anyone , so be it .
THIS IS NOT A THREAT , IT IS A FACT .
nuf said
Brian
Brian Flowers wrote:My feelings are and will always remain the same .
ain't nobody , I mean , " NOBODY " , getting , or taking
anything , nada , nothing , of mine , EVER , not even the
gumbement . period . im a proud American and a life
member of the N.R.A. as long as i live and get to wake up
every morning thanks to GOD I will keep what belongs to me .
if i have offended anyone , so be it .
THIS IS NOT A THREAT , IT IS A FACT .
nuf said
Brian
"He has given you the spirit of repentance, a soul that longs for redemption.
He is quick to forgive, and kind in His mercy toward you, a lowly sinner."
Getting more involved with AAPK I’m playing catch-up on a lot of the issues I find interesting on the site, so if I say something that has already been said, I apologize for being a "Johnny come lately."
As well as a amateur knife researcher and collector, I’m an active member of the NRA and everyday I walk out of the house I have a handgun on me, and I’m carrying one of my favorite pocket knives. Thanks to our Governor, Greg Abbott, Texas in the past couple of years has gone to “Open Carry” on firearms and Texas House Bill 1935 removed the blade restrictions on all knives that a person is allowed to openly carry in public. People possessing anything from daggers to swords will not be breaking any laws. If you want to walk down the street with your Wakizashi Japanese sword on your side, then go for it.
I didn’t spend 26 ½ years in the military defending our rights and freedoms to stand by and let a bunch of liberal and socialist so called “enlightened ones” tell me I had to give up anything for some "greater good" or “one world order.” I make no apologize for that statement and I know that many of you will understand and agree. Get involved and fight for what is right, no matter what the issue is.
I will now come down off my soapbox.
David Roberts
U.S. Navy and D/FW International Airport Retired
Prayer Changes Everything
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
Thanks for posting that Jerry, it wasn't in the American Hunter version of NRA's periodical. It seems to be nice with use of a survival knife and their price are not much high written and concise and I advise all people study it.
As a nonpartisan organization, with members and supporters of all political persuasions, Knife Rights has made it our policy not to endorse candidates, but we obviously still have an abiding interest in seeing politicians elected that respect knife owners and our interests. Moreover, since founding we have unabashedly been a Second Amendment organization, focused on protecting our right to own and carry knives, or whatever arms someone might choose.
We are occasionally criticized for being a Second Amendment organization, with some few claiming that it somehow impairs our efforts to rewrite knife law in America. Our record says otherwise. Thirty Two bills enacted repealing knife bans in 22 states and over 100 cities and towns since 2010, most with bi-partisan support and many with anti-2A sponsors, is proof of that.
Early voting is just starting and the most critical presidential election in our lifetimes is now in play. Yes, seems we say that every election, but that appears to be nonetheless true each time. If you thought that was true in the last election, it is clearly even truer this time around. I don’t think that there has ever been a more stark difference in viewpoint for the future of America than we have this election.
As a single issue organization, our specific interest is in how the election will affect knife owners and our rights. You may well have other issues that will determine for whom you vote, but our focus is on our knives and the Second Amendment. Regardless of who wins this election, Knife Rights will continue to fight for a Sharper Future™ for all Americans.
And, I realize that for many of you neither candidate is a particularly appealing choice, but this election is too important to sit out. One of these two candidates is going to win the presidency. One of them is going to determine the future course of this country with regards to our rights, for better or worse. Whoever is your choice, however reluctant that choice may be, be sure to vote. Your future and that of future generations is at stake.
The Second Amendment
Knives being “arms” protected by the Second Amendment is half of Knife Rights’ foundational principles expressed in our logo’s tag line: Essential Tools – Essential Rights™. While knives are tools used by millions of Americans at home, work and while recreating, sometimes they are also tools used as arms in order to protect one’s person or loved ones. In some areas of the country, they are the most effective legal self-defense alternative to banned or restricted firearms.
Former Vice-President Biden’s anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment agenda is a major plank of his campaign, including firearm confiscation. He has promised to put former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has also endorsed firearms confiscation, in charge of his anti-Second Amendment agenda.
His running mate, Kamala Harris, is even more virulently anti-Second Amendment. Knife Rights has a history with her animus towards knives when she was California Attorney General. She pursued an asinine case that would have put many knife owners in serious jeopardy and set a very bad precedent. In the end, our side won by a unanimous decision at the California Supreme Court.
Biden is aiming to eviscerate the Second Amendment, burn it down to irrelevance. There is no question about his intention to attack it via support for anti-Second Amendment bills, executive actions, and, given the opportunity, to put solidly anti-Second Amendment Justices on the Supreme Court and when filling vacancies in Federal courts.
Biden has opposed expanding the Supreme Court (“packing” the Court) and the circuit courts with politically-driven appointments, a proposal being pushed by prominent Democrats and liberal political organizations. The aim is to ensure their agenda, including gun control, passes judicial muster, regardless of constitutional conflicts. However, Harris, who is, as they say, only a heartbeat away from being President, has said she is “open” to packing the court.
Given the already shameful treatment the Second Amendment has received by SCOTUS in the past decade under Chief Justice Roberts, and particularly this past year, anti-2A appointments would ensure the Second Amendment’s relegation to a second class right, able to be ignored for the most part by anti-2A politicians, essentially neutered.
Over his 47 years as a politician Biden has endorsed virtually every proposal, no matter how outrageous, to limit gun ownership and destroy the Second Amendment through bans, burdensome regulations, executive orders and confiscations.
The loss of Second Amendment rights by way of his and Harris’ anti-gun agenda would be certain to disadvantage knife owners as we fight to oppose irrational restrictions on our knives. And, as we have seen elsewhere in the world, once firearms are heavily restricted or banned, knife restrictions and bans follow.
President Trump has been equally adamant in his pro-Second Amendment stance, though he has occasionally shown his ignorance of firearms and gun law related minutia. In the case of his bump stock ban, many believe this led his administration to overstep their authority, but the courts will eventually decide that issue.
The Justices and judges he has appointed generally have a record of opposing efforts to weaken the Second Amendment. Not a perfect record, admittedly, but overall much better than in the past. He has pledged to continue to emphasize a record of pro-Second Amendment decisions and positions in his judicial appointments going forward, as his latest additions to this list of potential SCOTUS nominees shows. Despite occasional policy disagreements, he has earned the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, saying he has “done more than any president to protect the Second Amendment,” as well as that of other Second Amendment organizations.
In a speech in Latrobe, PA, on September 3rd, President Trump noted, “I am standing between them and your Second Amendment.”
Again, regardless of who wins the election, Knife Rights will continue to fight for a Sharper Future™ for all Americans in the same nonpartisan manner as we have done for the past decade. But, reality is that our job is easier when we have more pro-2A legislators and leadership to work with.
We urge you to vote for candidates at all levels of government who respect and support the Second Amendment. Sometimes that vote may be hard to swallow because the candidate may not be your perfect Second Amendment supporter, but the alternative may well be even harder to swallow.
Not voting, or not voting for that specific candidate, is essentially a vote for the other candidate, and in many cases, a vote to destroy the Second Amendment.
Your vote is your voice and it’s your future, and that of others you care about, at stake. Do your civic duty-VOTE!
If you have not yet registered to vote, do so as soon as possible or you may miss your state’s deadline: www.vote.gov
Member AKTI, TSRA, NRA.
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
Thanks for this utmost important post, Ken .. hopefully many people read it and understand the major implications teetering on a razor's edge this election..
As a nonpartisan organization, with members and supporters of all political persuasions, Knife Rights has made it our policy not to endorse candidates, but we obviously still have an abiding interest in seeing politicians elected that respect knife owners and our interests. Moreover, since founding we have unabashedly been a Second Amendment organization, focused on protecting our right to own and carry knives, or whatever arms someone might choose.
We are occasionally criticized for being a Second Amendment organization, with some few claiming that it somehow impairs our efforts to rewrite knife law in America. Our record says otherwise. Thirty Two bills enacted repealing knife bans in 22 states and over 100 cities and towns since 2010, most with bi-partisan support and many with anti-2A sponsors, is proof of that.
Early voting is just starting and the most critical presidential election in our lifetimes is now in play. Yes, seems we say that every election, but that appears to be nonetheless true each time. If you thought that was true in the last election, it is clearly even truer this time around. I don’t think that there has ever been a more stark difference in viewpoint for the future of America than we have this election.
As a single issue organization, our specific interest is in how the election will affect knife owners and our rights. You may well have other issues that will determine for whom you vote, but our focus is on our knives and the Second Amendment. Regardless of who wins this election, Knife Rights will continue to fight for a Sharper Future™ for all Americans.
And, I realize that for many of you neither candidate is a particularly appealing choice, but this election is too important to sit out. One of these two candidates is going to win the presidency. One of them is going to determine the future course of this country with regards to our rights, for better or worse. Whoever is your choice, however reluctant that choice may be, be sure to vote. Your future and that of future generations is at stake.
The Second Amendment
Knives being “arms” protected by the Second Amendment is half of Knife Rights’ foundational principles expressed in our logo’s tag line: Essential Tools – Essential Rights™. While knives are tools used by millions of Americans at home, work and while recreating, sometimes they are also tools used as arms in order to protect one’s person or loved ones. In some areas of the country, they are the most effective legal self-defense alternative to banned or restricted firearms.
Former Vice-President Biden’s anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment agenda is a major plank of his campaign, including firearm confiscation. He has promised to put former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has also endorsed firearms confiscation, in charge of his anti-Second Amendment agenda.
His running mate, Kamala Harris, is even more virulently anti-Second Amendment. Knife Rights has a history with her animus towards knives when she was California Attorney General. She pursued an asinine case that would have put many knife owners in serious jeopardy and set a very bad precedent. In the end, our side won by a unanimous decision at the California Supreme Court.
Biden is aiming to eviscerate the Second Amendment, burn it down to irrelevance. There is no question about his intention to attack it via support for anti-Second Amendment bills, executive actions, and, given the opportunity, to put solidly anti-Second Amendment Justices on the Supreme Court and when filling vacancies in Federal courts.
Biden has opposed expanding the Supreme Court (“packing” the Court) and the circuit courts with politically-driven appointments, a proposal being pushed by prominent Democrats and liberal political organizations. The aim is to ensure their agenda, including gun control, passes judicial muster, regardless of constitutional conflicts. However, Harris, who is, as they say, only a heartbeat away from being President, has said she is “open” to packing the court.
Given the already shameful treatment the Second Amendment has received by SCOTUS in the past decade under Chief Justice Roberts, and particularly this past year, anti-2A appointments would ensure the Second Amendment’s relegation to a second class right, able to be ignored for the most part by anti-2A politicians, essentially neutered.
Over his 47 years as a politician Biden has endorsed virtually every proposal, no matter how outrageous, to limit gun ownership and destroy the Second Amendment through bans, burdensome regulations, executive orders and confiscations.
The loss of Second Amendment rights by way of his and Harris’ anti-gun agenda would be certain to disadvantage knife owners as we fight to oppose irrational restrictions on our knives. And, as we have seen elsewhere in the world, once firearms are heavily restricted or banned, knife restrictions and bans follow.
President Trump has been equally adamant in his pro-Second Amendment stance, though he has occasionally shown his ignorance of firearms and gun law related minutia. In the case of his bump stock ban, many believe this led his administration to overstep their authority, but the courts will eventually decide that issue.
The Justices and judges he has appointed generally have a record of opposing efforts to weaken the Second Amendment. Not a perfect record, admittedly, but overall much better than in the past. He has pledged to continue to emphasize a record of pro-Second Amendment decisions and positions in his judicial appointments going forward, as his latest additions to this list of potential SCOTUS nominees shows. Despite occasional policy disagreements, he has earned the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, saying he has “done more than any president to protect the Second Amendment,” as well as that of other Second Amendment organizations.
In a speech in Latrobe, PA, on September 3rd, President Trump noted, “I am standing between them and your Second Amendment.”
Again, regardless of who wins the election, Knife Rights will continue to fight for a Sharper Future™ for all Americans in the same nonpartisan manner as we have done for the past decade. But, reality is that our job is easier when we have more pro-2A legislators and leadership to work with.
We urge you to vote for candidates at all levels of government who respect and support the Second Amendment. Sometimes that vote may be hard to swallow because the candidate may not be your perfect Second Amendment supporter, but the alternative may well be even harder to swallow.
Not voting, or not voting for that specific candidate, is essentially a vote for the other candidate, and in many cases, a vote to destroy the Second Amendment.
Your vote is your voice and it’s your future, and that of others you care about, at stake. Do your civic duty-VOTE!
If you have not yet registered to vote, do so as soon as possible or you may miss your state’s deadline: www.vote.gov
Thanks for posting Ken. Hopefully it will make some look more carefully at the way they want to vote. I think many tend to forget that you really need to look at the issues and and platforms of a candidate instead of always voting by just party affiliation alone. It really amazes me at people who spout the old tired rhetoric of "I'm gonna vote for this party because my father did, and his father did, as did his father, and By Gum I will to!!" In my part of the country there are many who say that today. During the three previous administrations, the left have continued a push harder than any other time in this Republic to limit gun rights. Since the last administration I feel they are even more emboldened to think it is prime time to either repeal or limit the 2nd Amendment. I agree with the author of this piece, this is an important election, and most of all, people need to be out in force to vote.
Sometimes I Sit and Think .... Other times I just Sit
I May Grow Older, But I refuse to Grow Up!!
I'll sharpen it for you, but I don't give out band-aids!!
.. hopefully many people read it and understand the major implications teetering on a razor's edge this election..
.... Other times I just Sit