Sikhs wearing kirpans denied entry to National Assembly
Newsbot @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:25 am
Title: Sikhs wearing kirpans denied entry to National Assembly
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2011-01-18 10:07:46
Canadian
DrCaleb @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:25 am
I just had to laugh that they were attending a conference on whether such relgious symbols should be acceptable, and decided to wear their own just in case no one noticed. Brilliant!
andyt @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:31 am
Sanity breaks out. For how long tho.
Do devout Sikhs fly? They're always heading back to India to pick up brides, etc. What do they do about their kirpans then? And does airport security ever check their turbans, or only breats protheses of 80 yr old women?
martin14 @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:57 am
Thank God for Quebec, they show us the way !!!
Seriously, it's a knife and a weapon... time they understood that.
uwish @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:27 pm
I don't really have any issue with it. To me it isn't threatening, what would you say if a pile of construction workers came in with their tool belts which all contain box cutters, etc etc.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
GreenTiger @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:29 pm
andyt andyt:
Sanity breaks out. For how long tho.
Do devout Sikhs fly? They're always heading back to India to pick up brides, etc. What do they do about their kirpans then? And does airport security ever check their turbans, or only breats protheses of 80 yr old women?
Do devout Sikhs fly? They're always heading back to India to pick up brides, etc. What do they do about their kirpans then? And does airport security ever check their turbans, or only breats protheses of 80 yr old women?
Your 100% correct. Outside of possibly a pocket knife I can think of an exception to when people should be carrying a knife when being in public.
Somehow though I expect somebody in the PC crowd will insist that for Community Cohesion/cultural sensitivity or some other BS that this group will be permitted to carry knives in public.
GreenTiger @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:34 pm
uwish uwish:
I don't really have any issue with it. To me it is threatening, what would you say if a pile of construction workers came in with their tool belts which all contain box cutters, etc etc.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
They don't wear their tool belts with box cutters in public.
Suppose a right-wing Nazi group were to say that as a religious principle the insist
on wearing KA-BAR knives.
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
andyt @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:37 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
See, what did I tell you, you are a commie pinko anti 2nd Amendment freak. No wonder some Americans come to this forum. If you said something like that in the US you'd probably get lynched.
GreenTiger @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:42 pm
andyt andyt:
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
See, what did I tell you, you are a commie pinko anti 2nd Amendment freak. No wonder some Americans come to this forum. If you said something like that in the US you'd probably get lynched.
I'm safe on the East Coast.
Zipperfish @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:43 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
uwish uwish:
I don't really have any issue with it. To me it is threatening, what would you say if a pile of construction workers came in with their tool belts which all contain box cutters, etc etc.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
They don't wear their tool belts with box cutters in public.
Suppose a right-wing Nazi group were to say that as a religious principle the insist
on wearing KA-BAR knives.
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
I do. I wear my Leatherman multi-tool on my belt all the time on weekends. And I could almost shave with that blade. However, if I'm going into a place like a the National Assembly--where there's already been a wingnut who's gone a killing rampage with a weapon (Denis Lortie0--I'd have no problem leaving it at the door.
GreenTiger @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:30 pm
True ZIP,
but it is you Leatherman Multi-Tool is a tool, a dagger isn't designed to fix things, it designed to kill people. It may be Un-American of me but I don't think people carrying deadly weapons in public is a good idea,
uwish @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:44 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
uwish uwish:
I don't really have any issue with it. To me it is threatening, what would you say if a pile of construction workers came in with their tool belts which all contain box cutters, etc etc.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
They don't wear their tool belts with box cutters in public.
Suppose a right-wing Nazi group were to say that as a religious principle the insist
on wearing KA-BAR knives.
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
says you, let me guess your one of those people who think just because it's there people will be stabbing each other 'just because'
grow up.
GreenTiger @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:52 pm
uwish uwish:
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
uwish uwish:
I don't really have any issue with it. To me it is threatening, what would you say if a pile of construction workers came in with their tool belts which all contain box cutters, etc etc.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
We need to get over this irrational fear.
They don't wear their tool belts with box cutters in public.
Suppose a right-wing Nazi group were to say that as a religious principle the insist
on wearing KA-BAR knives.
Weapons have no place in normal civilian life.
says you, let me guess your one of those people who think just because it's there people will be stabbing each other 'just because'
grow up.
I did grow up. Deadly weapons in normal civilian "everyday-life" is not a good idea.
uwish @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:57 pm
sorry you feel so threatened, it must be very uncomfortable for you to live in fear everyday of your life.
sandorski @ Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:58 pm
1000 years from now, Martians will be debating allowing Nrarians to carry their Hand Ballistics into the Peoples Forum.