Stuff I lifted from Fed Book

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Good ones Lloyd. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Russell Kanning]

Kat met a former Iraqi who said lots of people are scared of him

[Lloyd Danforth]

People in the US are afraid of these guys, too.

[Jim Johnson]

People in the US are afraid of these guys, too.

Anyone with a beard and a towel on his head.

[KBCraig]

People in the US are afraid of these guys, too.

And Sikhs are probably the most "American" of any immigrant religious group: fiercely independent, family oriented, and NAP to the core: their religion requires them to carry a blade, but forbids them to draw it from the scabbard unless blood must be shed in defense of self, family, or others. If they draw a blade when it wasn't required, they draw blood from themselves before returning it to the scabbard.

[Russell Kanning]

not exactly the personality type of my ancestors when they came to this continent, but they don't seem to hurt anybody

[MaineShark]

And Sikhs are probably the most "American" of any immigrant religious group: fiercely independent, family oriented, and NAP to the core: their religion requires them to carry a blade, but forbids them to draw it from the scabbard unless blood must be shed in defense of self, family, or others.

Sikhism is one of the most consistently-libertarian of all religions.  That is, while members of Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, et cetera, can span the range from totalitarian to anarchist, any random Sikh picked out of a crowd is more likely to embrace liberty than a random Christian, Muslim, Jew, or whatnot; it's a more-recent religion, and has not deviated as much from its original teachings as have others.

If they draw a blade when it wasn't required, they draw blood from themselves before returning it to the scabbard.

Yeah.  Never ask a Sikh if you can check out his knife (or sword, but in the US, the kirpan is usually a knife).  Serious bad manners...

There have been a number of court cases in which Sikhs were able to win some level of protection for the wearing of kirpans in jurisdictions (eg, NYC) which ban knives.

[Tom Sawyer]

The chakram, throwing rings are cool. We watched the show Weapon Masters that covered them.

[Lloyd Danforth]