Comments on: First the Guns, Then the Knives http://alphapatriot.com/first-the-guns-then-the-knives/ Observations of a Reformed Liberal Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dymphna http://alphapatriot.com/first-the-guns-then-the-knives/comment-page-1/#comment-3124 dymphna Sun, 29 May 2005 12:48:48 +0000 http://66.7.204.200/~alphapat/?p=3972#comment-3124 This reminds me of a couple of incidents... When I worked at Children's Hospital in Boston, the weekend would invariably bring its share of serious bike injuries (in the days before helmets). One neurosurgeon, so appalled by the repairs he had to attempt, forbid all his children from riding bikes...wonder if they ever got their drivers' licenses...though I understand his fatherly concern. The other is a telling moment in my kithcen, years ago: a toddler, the same age as my boy, had come over to play. Out of respect for his mother, I put all my son's 'weapons' away, including his beloved light sword. But nature will not be deflected. As soon as Momma was gone, her son was shooting mine with carefully aimed blasts from his IED -- a piece of toast bitten to resemble (however vaguely) a gun. These docs need some history in their pitifully barren scientific curriculum. Either that, or duct tape applied to their speaking apparatus to prevent outbreaks of ignorant blather. They can have my chef's knife if they can get it away from me. Like the Afghan's who buried their music, I'll know where to dig up my knives when the crazies are all dead or banished. This reminds me of a couple of incidents…
When I worked at Children’s Hospital in Boston, the weekend would invariably bring its share of serious bike injuries (in the days before helmets). One neurosurgeon, so appalled by the repairs he had to attempt, forbid all his children from riding bikes…wonder if they ever got their drivers’ licenses…though I understand his fatherly concern.
The other is a telling moment in my kithcen, years ago: a toddler, the same age as my boy, had come over to play. Out of respect for his mother, I put all my son’s ‘weapons’ away, including his beloved light sword. But nature will not be deflected. As soon as Momma was gone, her son was shooting mine with carefully aimed blasts from his IED — a piece of toast bitten to resemble (however vaguely) a gun.
These docs need some history in their pitifully barren scientific curriculum. Either that, or duct tape applied to their speaking apparatus to prevent outbreaks of ignorant blather.
They can have my chef’s knife if they can get it away from me. Like the Afghan’s who buried their music, I’ll know where to dig up my knives when the crazies are all dead or banished.

]]> By: Stormy Dragon http://alphapatriot.com/first-the-guns-then-the-knives/comment-page-1/#comment-3123 Stormy Dragon Fri, 27 May 2005 14:23:14 +0000 http://66.7.204.200/~alphapat/?p=3972#comment-3123 Don't forget the need for a law requiring all objects weighing more than two pounds be wrapped in foam rubber. Don’t forget the need for a law requiring all objects weighing more than two pounds be wrapped in foam rubber.

]]> By: Right Side of the Rainbow http://alphapatriot.com/first-the-guns-then-the-knives/comment-page-1/#comment-3125 Right Side of the Rainbow Fri, 27 May 2005 09:24:23 +0000 http://66.7.204.200/~alphapat/?p=3972#comment-3125 <strong>Careening to a ban on the broom handle</strong> Scotsman: Long, pointed kitchen knives should be banned as part of a concerted effort to reduce the terrible injuries and deaths caused by stabbing attacks, doctors warned today. Accident and emergency medics claim the knives serve no useful purpose in... Careening to a ban on the broom handle

Scotsman: Long, pointed kitchen knives should be banned as part of a concerted effort to reduce the terrible injuries and deaths caused by stabbing attacks, doctors warned today. Accident and emergency medics claim the knives serve no useful purpose in…

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