Posted on 06/06/2014 7:32:24 PM PDT by ealgeone
LOL. A Gorilla.
It was hard for my oldest to say anything about a gorilla, she was still holding the scissors with a hunk of her sisters hair in the other hand.
They were round tipped ‘safety’ scissors. She had been doing an art/craft K4 section of her homeschool the day before and I’d put them up when we were done. Unfortunately and because she was the oldest and I wasn’t clever enough just yet, I let her see where I put them.
After that they were hidden. But good.
My MIL left her purse unattended once upon a time and one of my SIL’s kids found the little sewing snips in there and ‘trimmed’ her dining room curtains. What is it with kids and scissors.
I’m not sure specific retribution has happened for that but they’re fairly mean to each other. Another time the oldest who was 4 at the time did a ‘drive by’ and stole the 2yr old’s fave toy. The 2yr old picked up a wiffle ball bat and began to beat the 4yr old with that. In spite of the fact that the 4yr old was then more than a head and shoulders taller than the 2yr old.
The redhead doesn’t take gruff off of anyone. She does a perfect viking berzerker when she’s mad.
We keep a pair of the type used by emergency medical folk. You’d be amazed what they can cut through, even through they were’t particularly expensive items. I can just imagine the damage you could do with some high-quality steel.
I tell you what folks, as strange as this seems, there are some real nutbaggers out there these days.
Even children’s scissors could be used to stab someone seriously if a crazy wanted to.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't excuse the government insanity described in the article. You can turn anything into a weapon. If you give me about 5-10 minutes after walking in there completely buck naked, I could have at least 3 deadly weapons on my person that I guarantee could kill without immediate medical assistance.
They gained nothing by being such horses asses that they took away children's scissors. Hell, they gain nothing by removing a 'buck' knife from a determined adversary.
Sword, Like that pen. Awesome.
Swordmaker, spend some time in a courthouse for any period of time, even a few days and you quickly realize it isn’t just your average Joes that wind up there most often. There are some seriously unhinged folks out there that pose a real threat. If I worked in a courthouse, I’d be interested in making sure something that could be used as a weapon was being kept out.
I realize we think in terms of government over-stepping it’s mandate. I sympathize with that view. I don’t see this as that sort of issue.
Look, it’s not unreasonable to try to eliminate threats. This isn’t evidence of government out of control.
There are plenty of examples of that out there we both can agree on. This isn’t one of them.
Hang out in a courthouse for a few weeks. You’ll begin to realize it’s not the middle class normals they are having to protect themselves from. It’s the fringe element of our society that makes up most of what the courts deal with.
Taking children’s scissors away isn’t a threat to our civil liberties.
I couldn't disagree more.
I'd trust the average joe more than your average policeman in almost any situation. We've now had years of experience with your average folks being CCW holders, and it has been conclusively shown that we have far better judgementby far than people who these same government goons would have no problem whatsoever with carrying a loaded firearm into the same place where they'd just taken children's scisors from someone.
The whole concept of this special 'trusted' class is an anathema to a free people, especially when it has been conclusively proven that they can't be trusted.
Keep in mind that there's no such thing as accidents any more. If a child gets injured by scissors, a compass, ruler, anything you can think of, the teacher will be blamed, people will be outraged and everyone will use that as proof that schools are out of control. Another factor is that teachers can't hurt the l'il darlings feelings. A teacher can't say "Beatrice, you're going to have to sit alone at that table while everyone else uses scissors because last time we did you cut Sylvester's hair".
OMG!! The point on those scissors is almost as sharp as a pen or pencil!!
Okay. The pregnant question that seemingly needs to be asked at this point is this. Do you believer there should be any security measures at the entrances to our courthouses?
No
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