Home deliveries of knives bought online to be banned in UK

[Tex Nomex]

Seems I'm having yet another flashback here on 65G.

I once spent a spring afternoon attending a library book reading/signing with my wife and daughter. By chance, my daughter's Literature teacher was also there. Q&A time comes and this teacher starts a vigorous argument with the author about what the author's own book meant. Predictably, Q&A was cut short and our book is, to this day, unsigned.

The sad truth: Some people become so enamored with their own powers of 'logic' and the resultant theories that they will not, or cannot, accept an obvious truth, even from the very authors themselves.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive."
--Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).