Re: bayonettes are too a useful device
From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:41:19 -0500
Subject: Re: bayonettes are too a useful device
Allan spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> There is an ingrained fear factor that doesn't exist with guns. People
just
> naturally fear blade weapons. Funny enough, I can watch people getting
shot in
> movies and TV, but I get squeamish when I see someone cut their finger
open in
> a movie or TV show. Something weird about knives, I guess.
I'll second that. There is something about surgery that makes me
cringe whereas large scale destruction of the human form with
firearms isn't that bothersome (in movies of course!). And for $25 or
whatever a bayonet is worth (the Canadian one not much since I've
seen them shatter when thrown at Oak trees), they are a handy tool
for many things and if you did have to close assault a position, I'd
attach it. Even if I never used it, I MIGHT get into a situation
where it would be useful, and it MIGHT be the best $25 I ever spent.
And its utility off the rifle is of little doubt. Most military
people I know tend to carry 2-3 bladed tools/weapons on their person
(a gerber, leatherman, or swiss army knife/tool, a bayonet (issue),
and often another knife - a short or long bladed fighting knife like
a bowie or a sykes-fairburn). Knives are quiet (as pointed out),
useful, and they work in almost any environment from the artic to
underwater and don't run out of ammo*.
Tom
* excepting the bayonet shattering I mentioned above. I believe that
is a reflection of exceptionally hard steel being very brittle. And
cheap-ass manufacturing.
/************************************************
Thomas Barclay
Software Specialist
Police Communications Systems
Software Kinetics Ltd.
66 Iber Road, Stittsville
Ontario, Canada, K2S 1E7
Reception: (613) 831-0888
PBX: (613) 831-2018
My Extension: 2036
Fax: (613) 831-8255
Software Kinetics' Web Page:
http://www.sofkin.ca
SKL Daemons Softball Web Page:
http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/softhp.htm
**************************************************/