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Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth"
mnovotny writes "Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores, armed with a Klingon 'Batleth' sword inspired by the Star Trek science fiction series.
They did appear more human in the original series."
One of the 7-11's I used to frequent here in Colorado Springs had a former CIO of an intenet bubble company as it's assistant manager. So yes, they're all run by nerds out here. The dot-com bubble broke big here.
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Having a concealed weapons permit, I had to take a class that focused a great deal on specific firearm laws.
Louisiana allows for open carry, but the instructor (a state trooper) cautioned that all it takes is a complaint for you to get arrested for it. The reasoning is that "disturbing the peace" trumps the right to open carry.
Yeah, but there are no awesome Office Space quotes that involve county jail!
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Sometimes you'll get arrested for that in Georgia, too, but it almost always gets thrown out in court (assuming you were licensed and legal to carry in that location). Now, if you're in a private establishment, and the manager/proprietor decides he doesn't like it, that's a different matter; he has full legal right to ask you to cover up or leave.
in general, though, firearms laws in Georgia are so convoluted and ambiguous that even the judges, lawyers, and police don't really know it well. Go up and ask five officers what the laws are, you'll get six different answers. We're trying to fix that, because regardless of the subject, the people deserve laws that are clear and easy to understand. Otherwise, how can they follow them?
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Because, those passengers did something heroic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11
(and the actual news item sourced by Wikipedia:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191520,00.html)
They were the only ones on any of the planes (besides the hijackers themselves), who knew the plan was to crash the plane into a building.
They could have chosen to disbelieve the information ("Who is crazy enough to do that? We should just wait."), instead, they chose to make sure that the plane they were on could NOT be used in that way.
I am sure they were all hoping they would live (who doesn't?), and they knew they were going to die if they did nothing, but their actions kept the terrorists from achieving their objective.
Bluntly, they were the only ones who were in the position to do something, and they acted, even though that action cost them their lives.
In that way they became Martyrs. Bitterly ironic given that they were the only way to stop other supposed "Martyrs" plans.
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I know you're being funny, but interestingly, in most (maybe all) states, you can not carry a sword or long knife in any way that would make it useful for protection. As a country, we have decided that firearms are much safer than swords. Here are a couple of links for discussions of this: http://askville.amazon.com/NYC-legal-carry-pocket-knife-attached-belt-plain-sight-concealed-weapon/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9649382 http://askville.amazon.com/legal-carry-sword-self-defense/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=8859178