{"id":1417,"date":"2015-02-20T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/02\/20\/does-senator-avella-think-new-yorkers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:12","slug":"does-senator-avella-think-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Does Senator Avella Think New Yorkers Are Going To Go All Hutu Or Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10908,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nydailynews.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/state-sen-tony-avella-ban-machetes-new-york-article-1.2120874&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nydailynews.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/state-sen-tony-avella-ban-machetes-new-york-article-1.2120874&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10909,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/open.nysenate.gov\\\/legislation\\\/api\\\/1.0\\\/pdf\\\/bill\\\/S3199-2015&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10910,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Rwandan_Genocide&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Rwandan_Genocide&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/state-sen-tony-avella-ban-machetes-new-york-article-1.2120874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most ridiculous story in the New York Daily News<\/a> yesterday. New York State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Queens) wants to ban the sale and possession of machetes in New York. The move is in response to a murder in July in which a machete was used as the murder weapon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The sale of machetes should be outlawed after several recent attacks, a Queens pol said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Tony Avella plans to introduce a bill to ban the possession of the scary blades in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that anyone can easily purchase this potentially lethal tool is just crazy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller knives such as switchblades and gravity knives are already banned and listed as deadly weapons under state law, but machetes are considered the same as butcher knives.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Avella&#8217;s bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/open.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/api\/1.0\/pdf\/bill\/S3199-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 3199-2015<\/a>, &nbsp;would add machetes to the list of deadly weapons. This puts them in the same category as firearms, switchblades, gravity knives, brass knuckles, and the &#8220;pilum ballistic knife&#8221;. He claims in the justification that it will allow those who use a machete as a weapon will be charged appropriately. Does it really make that much difference if a person uses a &#8220;deadly weapon&#8221; as opposed to a &#8220;dangerous weapon&#8221; when they commit a crime?<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily News this legislation would mean mere possession of a machete could land you in prison for a year.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that Sen. Avella is a nanny stater playing to the media with this proposal. Given New York State&#8217;s ethnic diversity I&#8217;m a bit surprised that he didn&#8217;t make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwandan_Genocide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reference to Rwanda and the desire to avoid a genocide <\/a>as machetes were the weapon of choice of the Hutu against the Tutsi. Or, better yet, to give this a New York context, the Sharks versus the Jets a&#8217;la West Side Story. Just substitute machete for switchblade.<\/p>\n<p>Machetes are a tool. I have many of them in various forms, shapes, and sizes. My favorite is one that I inherited from my dad. It is a bolo style machete that I think he picked up in the Caribbean during WWII when he served in the Caribbean Defense Command. The sheath is nicely tooled leather with a pistol belt hook attachment.<\/p>\n<p>This bill is a joke just like its sponsor. Both should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Whether that happens or not only time and public disgust will tell.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the most ridiculous story in the New York Daily News yesterday. New York State Sen. Tony Avella&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2331,295,2332,403],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-machete","tag-new-york","tag-st-sen-tony-avella","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}