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Old 08-26-2002, 06:57 PM   #136
jaguar
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A blackjack or sap won't show on a magnetic scan any more than a polymer/ceramic blade will. As time goes on you folks are going to get a detailed education in non-ferrous weapons. Not that the bad guys won't have firearms too. They just won't need them as much. Mostly to use on each other, I would imagine.
Oh gee, they're really new aren't they. Meh, random weapons checks won't have a significant impact on weapons carrying apart from some of the most obvious places like clubs, which is a good thing. Outside that kind of controlled enviroment its pretty damn unusual anywhere. Nearly all the knife incidents in the alst year were club related.

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Yes, but a perp doesn't *need* to conceal them. Or many other things usable as a bludgeon.
Really? Interesting. You know i've never seen someone carrying a baseball bat here. Ever. I think someones been watching too many movies.

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You had to shorten "armed with a firearm" to "firearmed" because you belabor the distinction way beyond its significance....if an assailant is vastly better-armed than you are, where you both fall on the escalation continuum won't matter much in terms of outcomes.
No, I did it for the reasons I mentioned. Stop trying to turn a mountain into a molehill, its ironic you, usually the queen of obscure language to puff yourself up should lay into me for shortening a short sentence into one word.

This is really becoming one very boring slog match, I"m sick of wasting half my newspaper reading time, i'm outa this thread.
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