The Weather In The Twin Cities Must Be Getting Nice
By Mitch Berg
You can tell by the accessories out on the street:
Last summer seemed to be “The Season of the Machete” (copywriting the screenplay title).
I just have to ask – where are all the machetes coming from?
April 7th, 2021 at 7:15 am
Straw buyers travel to Central America, which lacks common sense machete laws. Remember: people don’t kill people. Machetes do. If it saves even one child’s life, ban machetes.
April 7th, 2021 at 7:24 am
It’s easier to buy a machete than a book.
But we mustn’t ban all machetes. Nobody wants to take away your deer hunting machete. And if someone is outside your home threatening you, just slash through the screen door with your machete to defend yourself.
April 7th, 2021 at 7:33 am
in Hawaii a machete is called a “cane knife,” and most people use one to clear out over grown vegetation. On the Big Island, at least, most home owners also have an “o’o bar,” a six foot long, inch thick iron rod, tipped with a wedge on one end and a point on the other, for breaking up & prying rocks.
There are a lot of rocks in Hawaii.
April 7th, 2021 at 7:38 am
When I was in Southeast Asia, there were machetes in every home. In Thailand, On Okinawa and Guam, the natives made them themselves out of (mostly) old Ford leaf springs.
April 7th, 2021 at 8:38 am
Kids can’t buy cigarettes, but they can buy machetes.
What is the world coming to?
Mothers Against Machetes demand action.
April 7th, 2021 at 8:58 am
Fools! I blame gun culture. Guns must be banned! All guns. You want to hunt deer, what do you think cars are for?
April 7th, 2021 at 9:22 am
Greg – “Yes, MAM”.
April 7th, 2021 at 9:27 am
So the only “crime” was carrying a machete?
Was the suspicious activity report phoned in by Karen?
April 7th, 2021 at 9:29 am
I don’t know for certain, but I believe that some Saint Paul residents, including some blog writers/editors, are known to walk around Saint Paul carrying concealed firearms.
April 7th, 2021 at 9:37 am
“Armed” with a machete? When ever I go to cut brush I equip myself with one.
April 7th, 2021 at 10:07 am
Anybody can walk into Mendard’s and buy a machete, or two or even six. No limit. No waiting period. No training. No license.
Why does an honest citizen NEED to own a machete? Leave it to the experts. Call a landscape service.
April 7th, 2021 at 10:16 am
In Saint Paul, our local city council is all over this. “Knife” is defined in the ordinances to include “Machete.”
https://library.municode.com/mn/st._paul/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIILECO_TITXXIIIPUHESAWE_CH225WE_S225.01DE
It’s illegal to carry a concealed knife which includes a knife in a sheath of any sort. So if the guy was carrying his machete in a sheath, it’s illegal.
But he was carrying it openly, in his hand . . . ?
April 7th, 2021 at 10:23 am
The grass isn’t even tall enough for a machete.
April 7th, 2021 at 10:47 am
I don’t know, FRESCH. There have been a couple of summers where mine got tall enough to use one. 😎
April 7th, 2021 at 11:17 am
The good thing about a machete, is that you can cut someone down to size.
April 7th, 2021 at 11:49 am
I modified my machete (that used to be my father’s) with some black tape on the cracked handle. This modification turned it into an Attack Machete.
April 7th, 2021 at 12:02 pm
I bought a machete with a 24″ blade for one queztal ($1 equivalent) in an open air market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala in 1979, when I was a high school exchange student. I still have it, including the leather sheath it came with. I doubt it would be deadly, although it could be a tetanus fiesta if you came crosswise with the blade.
April 7th, 2021 at 12:43 pm
That’s very innovative, Night Writer. I’ve been considering a bayonet lug to convert mine into an Assault Machete, but am concerned my neighbors might turn me in under the Red Flag law as a person obviously in need of mental health treatment.
April 7th, 2021 at 3:16 pm
JD – the laser sight modification really gets their attention!
April 7th, 2021 at 3:56 pm
Just think what will happen if you add a pistol grip!
April 7th, 2021 at 5:06 pm
I wonder if you can get one with the chainsaw attachment. Remember that one?
I’ve got to admit, though, that if I was in “the hood” and saw my neighbor walking towards me with a machete, “trimming the shrubbery” is not what would come to mind for me. Maybe I’m a sissy.
April 7th, 2021 at 5:42 pm
Obviously Minneapolis needs to invest billions of dollars in my new Machete Spotter network.
April 7th, 2021 at 6:17 pm
Have the authorities determined if the guy was carrying an assault machete? As opposed to a defense machete?
April 8th, 2021 at 7:42 am
I just got an email alert from a machete rights organization warning me “President” Biden would issue Executive Orders today, banning imported machetes and “ghost” machete kits that you assemble yourself. They wanted me to send emails to RINOs in Congress and also to send money to the organization. Seems to me a better use of the money is to run out and buy more machetes while I still can.