In a politically correct environment the rules make about as much sense as dipping your genitals into boiling water because “I was bored” would. I understand that there are dumb people in the world, and that I have to live with them from time to time. What I don’t understand is why we allow them to make rules about how we fly.
If you are the government, and you have issued rifles and pistols to your troops, and they will be flying with those rifles and pistols, how does it make sense to take away their nose hair clippers and lighters, as well as other “dangerous” items, while you ferry them like herd cattle into a combat zone where they may well die?
A lot of the energy in our national discourse as of late has been dedicated to complaining about desecration of various items like flags and holy books. The definition of desecration is: “blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character.”
I submit to you, the reader, that by handing our servicepeople pistols and rifles and then taking away their nose hair clippers, lighters and knives, we are desecrating them. We are mocking their willingness to give up their lives voluntarily so that we can walk around fat, happy and ignorant. And that disgusts me. Stop the insanity by speaking out against this nonsense.
I love this country, and I’m willing to fight for it, but let me keep my goddamn pocketknife, you idiots. It comes in handy on the battlefield.
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