From "Man Accused of Bringing Guillotine to D.C. Is Arrested/Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, Calif., was taken into custody for 'being in possession of the guillotine,' the police said" (NYT).
Is "being in possession of a guillotine" a crime? There's this at Law Commentary:
D.C. law bans several weapons by name, including machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, switchblade knives, and knuckles. It also covers other dangerous weapons when someone possesses them with the intent to use them unlawfully against another person. A guillotine is not specifically listed.... Prosecutors must establish that it qualifies as a dangerous weapon under the law and address the required intent....
D.C.’s highest local court applied that rule last year in Carrington v. United States, throwing out a weapons conviction involving an umbrella because prosecutors had not shown that it was likely to cause death or serious injury in the way it was used....
The police asked Le if it worked and he said, "Yeah, it’s the real deal, man."
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It certainly is deadly. But is it a "Weapon"? I guess. If you could tie someone up or knocked them out and put their head in the right position and release the blade.
But using that logic a piece of rope is a "deadly weapon".
I remember Biden saying we couldn’t own cannons but don’t recall anything about a guillotine. And I doubt it would be classified as a weapon. As I recall from the French Revolution the guillotine was for after the weapons worked.
"It was unclear whether Mr. Le had driven the truck across the country with the guillotine on it, a journey that could have been more than 2,500 miles."
No doubt he just stopped at the local 711 in DC. They stock Guillotines.
I thought we had the right to protest, you know? Democrats celebrated their play in Central Park showing Bush II getting assassinated, and that was 100% fine, and Kathy Griffin's severed head stunt was fine... but bringing a guillotine outside of Congress isn't?
I realize that many congresscritters are so dumb that they actually could fall into it and get their own heads chopped off, but still: a guillotine is only useful as an execution, not as a weapon.
Can someone show up with a barrell full of boiling tar and a massive pillow full of goose feathers, for use on Congresscritters? Asking for a friend.
A more clever man would put a sign on it saying "Vegimatic". Any actual beheadings could be explained as accidents.
It's a dangerous weapon because it's designed to kill when properly used. Sure, it has other uses like trimming cigars, circumcision, etc., but that's not why most of us have one in our trucks.
The left sure love death and HARM.
It looks like effective speech to me, protected under free speech.
Sorry, Vance, but to be an accurate tar and feathering it must be done with unheated pine tar. Which is incredibly sticky. But after the tarring and feathering, putting the naked body on a genuine fence rail and riding it out of town would be incredibly painful.
Entertaining abortive ideation has diverse precedents. Planned Presidenthood is an umbrella corporation. A wicked solution, a serial action, which should be taken seriously.
I thought this was America!
I asked Grok:
When and where have guillotine (or faux guillotines) been displayed at protetst in the last ten years?
There was a quite long list.
Free speech, Baby!
I stand corrected, GoSpace! We can probably find some pine tar somewhere, right?
Gospace said...
Sorry, Vance, but to be an accurate tar and feathering it must be done with unheated pine tar
i'd ALWAYS Assumed, that it was with hot tar, and thus a Capital punishment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHCw3RqulY
If the device was demonstrated using Mr. Philan-Tam-Duy Le himself, and he survived, then it is not a lethal weapon in the meaning of the law, and he should go free.
“WK said...
I remember Biden saying we couldn’t own cannons but don’t recall anything about a guillotine.”
I used to belong to the, North-South Skirmish Association, where the members compete in target shooting using Civil War weapons (antique and replica firearms) while wearing facsimiles of Civil War uniforms. And one of the competitions involves replicas of Civil War cannons. So Biden was wrong — private citizens can and do own cannons.
“"A man who parked a truck carrying a guillotine in the heart of Washington was arrested by the United States Capitol Police on Tuesday...."
If I wanted to kill somebody with that equipment I’d just run over them with the truck.
All this foo-fah-rah and nobody asked Philan-Tam-Duy Le exactly why he was driving around with a guillotine, and no reporters thought to ask? Seems like a kind of important aspect to the story.
It would appear that it's illegal in Washington DC to make Congressmen and Federal Bureaucrats nervous. 'Afflicting the Comfortable' would appear to be against the law.
After trial will guillotine go into Smithsonian Attic or field test by Myth Busters
Truck as in pickup or eighteen wheeler? Asking for hillbillies.
Prodigious leper, what did hillbillies ever do to you that makes you despise them?
" what did hillbillies ever do to you that makes you despise them?'
Living in them fancy mansions in Beverly Hills with them ceement ponds and such puts a stick my craw, I'll tell ya.
I thought magicians used a modified guillotine that could be rigged to be either safe or deadly.
Perhaps a trampoline rather than a guillotine would better preserve the meme.
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