# some asshat tried to stab the GOP candidate for CA-15 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 11, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190 "2018-09-11T22:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/1 "2018-09-11T22:52:42Z")
[Castro Valley Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Congressional Candidate](https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/09/11/man-assaults-republican-congressional-candidate-switchblade-castro-valley/) > [@](#): > > According to witnesses, 35-year-old Castro Valley resident Farzad Fazeli approached Peters at his booth in an aggressive manner and made disparaging, profanity-laced remarks about the Republican party and President Donald Trump. > > During the incident, Fazeli allegedly pulled out a switchblade knife and attempted to stab Peters. The knife malfunctioned and the candidate became involved in a physical struggle with Fazeli. His opponent tweeted this: > [@](#): > > [On Sunday, my opponent @PetersCongress was attacked at his campaign booth in Castro Valley. I’m glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay. But it’s NEVER okay to use violence to settle political disagreements (or any disagreement). Fortunately, @ACSOSheriffs arrested the suspect.](https://twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1039591205510832128) I wonder if this was inspired by the stabbing of Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/2 "2018-09-11T23:08:10Z")
I know nothing about the race or those candidates, and I applaud his opponent for getting that statement out there. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/3 "2018-09-12T00:05:39Z")
People should not get stabbed. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/4 "2018-09-12T00:10:12Z")
Man, people are out to get Republican politicians like they are black men or something. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/5 "2018-09-12T00:26:20Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I wonder if this was inspired by the stabbing of Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Or just…angry, crazy person who happened to realize that he had a knife on his person. If you’re inspired to do something, you don’t get into an argument first, you just slide up and stabbity when they’re not expecting it. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/6 "2018-09-12T03:25:16Z")
And they say those gun-free zones don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/7 "2018-09-12T03:44:21Z")
How does a knife malfunction? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/8 "2018-09-12T03:52:17Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > How does a knife malfunction? It said it was a switchblade. Obviously a false flag operation. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/9 "2018-09-12T04:11:17Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > How does a knife malfunction? My first thought as well. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/10 "2018-09-12T04:26:35Z")
If a gun can jam, why not a switchblade? Spring halfway open, internal spring goes sproing, and there you are, all stabbity in your raging heart and your stabber at half mast. ---
**Author:** ![HamptonsLax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@HamptonsLax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HamptonsLax)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/11 "2018-09-12T04:27:56Z")
need some common sense knife control. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/12 "2018-09-12T04:39:50Z")
Actually, in many jurisdictions switchblades are illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/13 "2018-09-12T11:50:29Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > If a gun can jam, why not a switchblade? Spring halfway open, internal spring goes sproing, and there you are, all stabbity in your raging heart and your stabber at half mast. I thought of that, but it’s still quite an odd way to phrase it. And if you take a switchblade out of your pocket, but it doesn’t open, does that still count as an attempt to stab someone? I’m not suggesting that the candidate just wait around at that point, or help the guy to get the switchblade open, but it’s not clear to me exactly what happened. In the full article, it says Fazeli only took out the switchblade after Peters had already wrestled him to the ground. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/14 "2018-09-12T12:14:06Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > People should not get stabbed. It’s too bad the OP didn’t post this in Great Debates so we could hear arguments from both sides. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/15 "2018-09-12T12:36:51Z")
I’m struggling to see if the OP was being funny about an American knowing anything about Brazil, let alone Brazilian politics. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/16 "2018-09-12T12:42:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s too bad the OP didn’t post this in Great Debates so we could hear arguments from both sides. I’m waiting until all the facts are in before making a judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/17 "2018-09-12T13:06:00Z")
What judgement is to be made? Seriously, what’s he thesis of the OP? ‘Stabbing people is bad’? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/18 "2018-09-12T13:10:25Z")
I think it’s just an expression of dismay that conservative white men are having their civil rights threatened. And that expression is intended unironically. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/19 "2018-09-12T13:13:31Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > What judgement is to be made? > > Seriously, what’s he thesis of the OP? ‘Stabbing people is bad’? And so is cops shooting unarmed black people. But we seem to find it necessary have the same debates, with the same talking points, every time that happens. So, I was just covering one of those well worn bases here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190/20 "2018-09-12T13:36:24Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > People should not get stabbed. Whoah, hey now. Let’s not say things we can’t take back. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-asshat-tried-to-stab-the-gop-candidate-for-ca-15/821190.md?page=2)