Seventeen-Year-Old Faces Felony Weapons Charge Over Fishing Knives in Tackle Box

 (moonbattery) - One of the many reasons no sane person would want to be ruled by liberals is their terrifyingly irrational doctrine of zero tolerance for anything they don’t like, which prominently includes objects they regard as weapons. An example from Georgia:

A Cobb County high school senior was charged with the felony of bringing weapons into a school zone after police found fishing knives in a tackle box in his car. Cody Chitwood, a 17-year-old student at Lassiter High School and avid fisherman, turned himself in and was released on $1,000 bond.
Police were performing a random sweep, and drug-sniffing dogs detected black powder in Chitwood’s car. The powder was residue from a firecracker that had been in the car since Fourth of July, but it was enough to a warrant a full search that turned up the fishing-related weaponry.

Now I get why the Founding Fathers wrote the Fourth Amendment.
Young Cody could get as much as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, despite having done nothing whatsoever wrong. His hopes of serving his country by enlisting in the Air Force apparently have been dashed. But at least his school is safe from rogue fishing knives that might somehow find their way out of the tackle box, out of his car, and into the school.

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