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Why call them anything? Sheeple is a derogatory term and serves no other purpose than to alienate and create an us and them division. Better understanding through education. People fear what they don't understand. Show them how they use knives everyday as tools in their lives and not weapons and maybe they'll become more understanding and less liable to be scared by a someone pulling out an appropriate knife to do a job well within it's capabilities. Not a sharpened prybar that you whip out of a hidden IWB sheath and proceed to cut a car door in half when all you wanted to do was cut a string that was wrapped around the window crank. (yes, cars had manual windows back in the day 
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Now, change the scenario up a bit, you're driving down a country road and happen upon a car on it's side leaning against a telephone pole. You get there and find a crown of people around the car and someone inside who's trapped in his seatbelt and the door is stuck. Now if no one had a knife or Multi tool to help extra categories the victim and you pulled a Ontario SP8 from a shoulder rig between your shoulder blades, then proceeded to hack out the windshield and cut the guy loose so he can climb out, nobody would blink an eye. In fact you'd be the hero of the day.
It's all about perception and circumstance, take out spec ops wet work stealth machete at a kids birthday BBQ and you'll most likely be attacked verbally at the very least. Take out a Case Tribal or Back Pocket knife at the same gathering and cut up some rolls for the burgers and no one would blink an eye, this is a case of the right tool for the right job. You can talk all day about the difference between a tool and a weapon but when it comes down to it all weapons are tools and at the end of the day it's their perception of that inanimate object, whether it's a weapon or a tool that will determine their reaction. Which ultimately will determine whether the OP looks at them as sheeple or people.
Sheeple follow the masses correct? So if you go along with the majority you're sheeple, stop at a stop sign? Sheeple. Pay your taxes? Sheeple. My Old Man used to tell me all the time, "Ya can't draw a line without havin' to pick a side." You can't label people without accepting a label yourself And over the years I've found it much easier to educate people so as to alleviate irrational fears.
)Now, change the scenario up a bit, you're driving down a country road and happen upon a car on it's side leaning against a telephone pole. You get there and find a crown of people around the car and someone inside who's trapped in his seatbelt and the door is stuck. Now if no one had a knife or Multi tool to help extra categories the victim and you pulled a Ontario SP8 from a shoulder rig between your shoulder blades, then proceeded to hack out the windshield and cut the guy loose so he can climb out, nobody would blink an eye. In fact you'd be the hero of the day.
It's all about perception and circumstance, take out spec ops wet work stealth machete at a kids birthday BBQ and you'll most likely be attacked verbally at the very least. Take out a Case Tribal or Back Pocket knife at the same gathering and cut up some rolls for the burgers and no one would blink an eye, this is a case of the right tool for the right job. You can talk all day about the difference between a tool and a weapon but when it comes down to it all weapons are tools and at the end of the day it's their perception of that inanimate object, whether it's a weapon or a tool that will determine their reaction. Which ultimately will determine whether the OP looks at them as sheeple or people.
Sheeple follow the masses correct? So if you go along with the majority you're sheeple, stop at a stop sign? Sheeple. Pay your taxes? Sheeple. My Old Man used to tell me all the time, "Ya can't draw a line without havin' to pick a side." You can't label people without accepting a label yourself And over the years I've found it much easier to educate people so as to alleviate irrational fears.
It relates to attitudes not political beliefs; though they do frequently merge. To send it to a less viewed forum would cut back on the number of members who would see it and choose to participate. 
Perhaps a more appropriate term might emerge or, at least, a better understanding of the one being discussed. 
We are also finding out quite a bit about each other which may not have previously been known. 
OOPS-"never mind". 
Say it ain't so. 
