Everything is illegal. It's understood that in practice no one will likely come after you for illegal possession of a screwdriver. But if you've pissed off some organ of the security state (see Pierce's entry today of the FBI channeling the Pinkertons on behalf of a foreign energy company, and recall that since 2001 "terrorism" can mean anything the security state likes, right down to jaywalking or littering), then your 1.25" Swiss Army knife gets you fired: and how abjectly would most of us cringe to avoid losing our livelihoods?

It's a police state, people. It prates about freedom, but its practices approach those of the USSR circa 1974. You know, a kind of slovenly, corrupt authoritarianism that swats its subject arbitrarily. And this is under Obama. It'll get nastier, I fear, under Presidents Walker or Cruz...or Clinton.

cordially,