Law baffles me. If someone attacks another person and injures them, why does it matter how their tool/weapon was classified?
[sarcasm]That's simple.... the person isn't as dead if clobbered over the head with a baseball bat rather than a machette.....[/sarcasm]
John, post: 367603, member: 791 wrote: [sarcasm]That's simple.... the person isn't as dead if clobbered over the head with a baseball bat rather than a machette.....[/sarcasm]
Your lawyer wants you to keep a glove in the car with your bat, and a surveyor in the car with your machete:)
Duane Frymire, post: 367608, member: 110 wrote: Your lawyer wants you to keep a glove in the car with your bat, and a surveyor in the car with your machete:)
Years ago, I used to keep an axe in the trunk of my car. Occasionally, someone would see it and ask why. My stock response was that if I kept the axe anywhere near my computer.......
People seemed to understand for some reason....
Bill93, post: 367588, member: 87 wrote: Law baffles me. If someone attacks another person and injures them, why does it matter how their tool/weapon was classified?
it is a political decision. they want to exceed the normal penalties... the OMG! factor
courts establish lists that are generally adhered to...
all crimes fall on a list giving min and max penalties, and/or monetary compensation/fines.
that list also effects booking as a misdemeanor or felony, bail amounts, etc. (booking records Never disappear)
And people wonder why I stay at home or go out into the forest and rarely am seen in between.
[sarcasm]Revenuers are everywhere just waiting to take us in..........[/sarcasm]
I can use an axe, no problem. But something about a machete just hurts specially mowing light brush where there is little resistance. Loppers work fine for me, just get down under and cut once instead of fifty times.
John, post: 367431, member: 791 wrote: Coming in our lifetimes: living in caves with no fire because everything has been outlawed.....
No caves. You may displace a family of bears. Will need to file an Environmental Impact Report in order to receive a Cave Occupancy Variance.
Bill93, post: 367588, member: 87 wrote: Law baffles me. If someone attacks another person and injures them, why does it matter how their tool/weapon was classified?
The designation of the weapon can work either of two opposite ways, depending upon who the accused is and who the victim is. In one case, the accused can be portrayed as some sort of crazed wacko who chose a particular weapon to create maximum carnage, instill a higher level of fear, or some other manner of sensationalism that is usually used to argue why a particular weapon or tool should be more difficult for everybody to obtain.
In the opposite case, if the media or the defense lawyer wants to create sympathy for the accused, they can play on the ignorance of the jury or of the general media consuming population by blaming the weapon or tool used. [sarcasm]As many are acutely aware, guns just "go off", and a redneck with a chainsaw or machete is a serial killer just waiting for some random stimulus to put him into a killing spree, while a minor who kills another would have never even considered such a thing if it weren't for the ready access to guns, machetes, etc.[/sarcasm]
Don't tell anyone, but I regularly carry an assault pencil and at least one assault pen. I also carry a 1 1/2" wide leather garrote with a metal ring at one end. Everyone thinks it's just to hold my pants up. There is another metal ring in my pocket with several pieces of metal attached to it. That thing can be used as an eye gouge, a throwing star with free moving points, or to open various doors and padlocks. Why, I'm just a walking arsenal of deadly weapons.