Carrying a knife . . . .

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marcinek said:
It shouldn't. Don't go to your pockets around police. They didn't react like that because they wanted to take your pocket knife and impinge upon your rights. They reacted like that because they thought you might kill them.
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Yep. Keep your hands visible at all times unless you want the reaction you got. You would probably still have the SAK. Do you think the officer in CA who was killed by the illegal "immigrant" was ready for him to yank out a gun on a traffic stop?
 
91bravo said:
Hell, I still carry an atlas in my truck. How many people do you know that still carry one?
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I carry the Gazetteers for every state that I might drive into (that would be 5 states on a regular basis). Often have paper state maps as well. Before a trip, I check to make sure I have the proper maps available to me even if I seldom use them. GPS's in cars are great..... until they lead you way off the beaten track and you have no idea where you are other than to start punching in new addresses to "get you out". I don't like the tunnel vision that highway GPS units give you and cell phone navigation is worse.... turn right.... oh, back there....
 
I carry a medium stockman and/or a SAK daily, I also carry a small flashlight , flip phone and a S&W M642 with 2 reloads. That said two short stories:

This past week I was at a family Christmas party when it came time to open presents several people had need of a pocket knife, Six adult males, 2 teen age males and I am the only one with a knife!

Back in 1998 when my wife and I were visiting my parents in Upstate NY we were on the way back from Fort Drum (my dad was retired Army) and my mom was driving their big-ass Olds (my Camaro was too small) my wife was in the front my Dad and I in the back. The LF front tire blew at 70 mph my mom lost control and we rolled 2.5 times coming to rest on the roof in the median, I was the only one not using their seat belt and the only one not hurt. I has to cut both my mom and dad's seat belt to get them out before EMS arrived. My parents were in their mid-70's at the time. No one was seriously hurt but my dad did end up with a broken collar bone probably from the seat belt.
 
22-rimfire said:
I carry the Gazetteers for every state that I might drive into (that would be 5 states on a regular basis). Often have paper state maps as well. Before a trip, I check to make sure I have the proper maps available to me even if I seldom use them. GPS's in cars are great..... until they lead you way off the beaten track and you have no idea where you are other than to start punching in new addresses to "get you out". I don't like the tunnel vision that highway GPS units give you and cell phone navigation is worse.... turn right.... oh, back there....
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The Kim family was GPS navigating in Oregon winter when they got marooned. Really went well for Mr. Kim.
 
I'm with the poster who said some of us have a chip on our shoulders.

I carry and use some type of knife daily. I live in a large city in the peoples republic of MA. I work in a high tech office environment. I don't get judgemental looks and negative reactions.... because I use common sense.

I don't use my kabar 1219 to cut an apple in my office lunch room or pull out a 10" bowie at a restaurant because I decided the provided steak knife was a bit dull for my liking. I don't harass my elderly neighbor over his landscaping preferences that mildly infringe on 10 yards of my property that I don't care about.

There are a lot of things that I choose not to do even though it's legally permissable because I don't want to walk around being a jerk. I enjoy being around and interacting with other humans. Maybe I'm a sheeple.
 
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Amen to that. A man without a knife is just kind of unprepared.

I carry a "knife" on airplanes. I have a bladeless Wenger Esquire, and it's just great to have SOMETHING, even if it isn't a real knife. (also, if we're honest with ourselves, a scissors comes in handy at least as often as a knife does. ;) )
 
Smaug said:
Amen to that. A man without a knife is just kind of unprepared.

I carry a "knife" on airplanes. I have a bladeless Wenger Esquire, and it's just great to have SOMETHING, even if it isn't a real knife. (also, if we're honest with ourselves, a scissors comes in handy at least as often as a knife does. ;) )
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You can sharpen the edge of a credit/debit card for such times as that.
 
I’ve Carried a knife since I was in the fourth grade. My first knife was a Schrade with brass and wood handles. I kept it on my belt in a leather holster. That knife went with me to school, home, church, and at play. I still have that knife. I carried a big Gerber folder all through my military service as well. I can’t speak for those that don’t carry a knife, but it just always made sense to me.
 
jackknife said:
The Kim family was GPS navigating in Oregon winter when they got marooned. Really went well for Mr. Kim.
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This is inaccurate. According to Mrs. Kim, the family actually used a paper map. Also, it was largely due to modern cellular netwrok and computer technology that their position could be significantly narrowed down so that three of the four were found and rescured before its too late.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
That's quite literally exactly what you're doing with this comment.
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Nah, if I was doing what he did, I would have said something like "you're a gay poo-poo head because you made made inappropriate and likely inaccurte veiled comments about his sexuality." What I did was simply point out that his debating style is indicative of failure, much as a teacher would.
 
I think their worst error was to try to take another road instead of going back on their steps.

Also venturing in a cross-country path without proper survival gear and vehicle is a risk I cant understand someone could expose his family to.
 
Tommy-Chi said:
I could give 2 sh*ts abt cutting boxes, but I'm a US citizen and support my 2nd Amendment 100%. You will never find me without a weapon of some kind.

Edged weapons/tools and firearms are 2nd Amendment protected devices. If you are a US citizen, protect your rights to carry!
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The line of arguing that knives are weapons severely undermines the approach that the main advocacy groups are taking, which is that knives should be seen as tools and not weapons. The point is that they should not be seen as instruments of crime and violence (like guns are).

Arguing a pro 2A point does not go far in many of the places that have the strictest restrictions on knives. I guarantee that many New Yorkers (NYC) don’t care for the assertion of ones 2A rights, quite the opposite in fact.

The point is, leave the 2A arguments to guns and help knives be seen as the useful tools they are and not as instruments of crime.
 
99% of the time, I have a knife on me. I carry it more than I need it. Most of my friends don't and I have no problem with that. They are good family men who work hard. The fact that they don't carry a knife doesn't reduce them as men. We all have different means of "preparedness". I'm never reluctant to help out someone who is in need of a knife. It's just being neighborly. Carry what you want, and respect those whose decision is different than yours.
 
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