carrying on college campus

I'm on campus right now and have my usual EDC on me: Case swayback jack, Spyderco zdp189 Delica (swaps out with Benchmade 530), and my RAT Izula. Never go anywhere without 'em :)
 
lazerboy2000 said:
Last year one of my professors even asked the class if anybody had a knife to cut something open. I tossed him my mini-grip and he even complimented it.
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Same thing happened in one of my classes. The professor asked if anyone had a knife he could use and about 5 guys offered up theirs.:D
 
rmc85 said:
Same thing happened in one of my classes. The professor asked if anyone had a knife he could use and about 5 guys offered up theirs.:D
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you have to careful doing that esp in "liberal" pussy schools like the one i work at
 
Cpl Punishment said:
I'm sorry, but. . .versus all those of the same description in general society that do the same thing?

When CWL permits become a shall issue item, violent crime always goes DOWN. Always. Despite cries that the streets will run with blood due to untrained people shooting it out without thinking.

Not related to anyone's posting in the thread, but I've noticed the same ones in the media that argue against untrained people getting CWLs also argue against private citizens getting professional training.
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What reasoning would you suspect those people who restrict weapons and professional training to the private citizen have, in other words, what is their ultimate intention?…

IMO, its that they want us to keep moving along day to day, so that they can maintain the herd of sheep, meek and mild=vulnerable. I cant understand why anyone, who really cares and has true concern about people and society, would want to avoid informing or educating the population, in any way/subject, especially teaching people to protect themselves. Just because you know how hand to hand does not mean you will pick a fight at every street corner. I think it creates an awareness, not a hyper vigilant society. Granted its not for everyone, but in the same respect should not exclude everyone either.

Someone mentioned it and I did not know that some state laws prevented criminal and civil cases for justifiable shootings? That sounds like paradise, or a state that restrict all guns anyway
 
I am not from California, but it is where I am going to school.

For state colleges you can carry a knife under two inches.

At private colleges you can carry whatever is allowed (potentialy no limit)

The specific college I go to allows a knife under three inches. I am at school right now carrying a Vic Tinker.
 
hung-solo said:
you have to careful doing that esp in "liberal" pussy schools like the one i work at
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Yeah. I didnt offer mine up for just that reason, but there was no shortage of blades in that class. I NEVER give someone a knife without knowing what they will do with it.

Plenty of idiots at work have asked me to "borrow your knife for a sec" and when I ask why half the time it's "to get this staple out/get this screw out/cut this can" and I always say no.

Maybe I should start carrying my SAK to work???
 
Sorry this is off topic a bit...

I've been working in UK schools with children who have serious behavioural and emotional problems. I worked in inner city specialist behavioural units in Northern England for several years, now I'm in a regular school in a market town (basically a tiny village but the locals always call it a market town) in West Wales.

I've always taken a SAK or Leatherman to work and used it when ever I could in front of the lads. In the city schools the boys shout "who are you going to stab?" and look slightly bemused at the proper use of a tool. Staff in those schools raised eyebrows but nothing was ever formerly said against me. I thought it was my duty to show proper use and respect of edged tools.

Living in Wales I took a young lad out last term to make a den. Can you imagine a 12yr old boy whose never made a den? He's had a terrible upbringing, was abused until the age of 6, he's been in and out of different foster carers homes, very intelligent but has dyspraxia (which means he's a bumbling idiot with 2 left feet!!!). He's a really good kid who just needs some stable people in his life who'll let him take risks and grow.

I took these into the staff room (we have a male and female staff room, how old fashioned is that! Only a handful still left in Britain), not one person said anything stupid, nobody raised an eyebrow, very different if it had been a city school. I had total trust from the staff, but what else could you expect from a tiny rural school?

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It was hardly Ray Mears but I made this with him.
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I figured it would be something he could easily make himself after school from what lays about the local farms.

His next reward at school is going to be making a fire and cooking a rabbit on it.
 
rmc85 said:
Yeah. I didnt offer mine up for just that reason, but there was no shortage of blades in that class. I NEVER give someone a knife without knowing what they will do with it.

Plenty of idiots at work have asked me to "borrow your knife for a sec" and when I ask why half the time it's "to get this staple out/get this screw out/cut this can" and I always say no.

Maybe I should start carrying my SAK to work???
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The can opener on a SAK has a little screw driver on it, I've found it very useful for removing staples from walls! :thumbup:
 
Yorkshire Boy said:
Sorry this is off topic a bit...

I've been working in UK schools with children who have serious behavioural and emotional problems. I worked in inner city specialist behavioural units in Northern England for several years, now I'm in a regular school in a market town (basically a tiny village but the locals always call it a market town) in West Wales.

I've always taken a SAK or Leatherman to work and used it when ever I could in front of the lads. In the city schools the boys shout "who are you going to stab?" and look slightly bemused at the proper use of a tool. Staff in those schools raised eyebrows but nothing was ever formerly said against me. I thought it was my duty to show proper use and respect of edged tools.

Living in Wales I took a young lad out last term to make a den. Can you imagine a 12yr old boy whose never made a den? He's had a terrible upbringing, was abused until the age of 6, he's been in and out of different foster carers homes, very intelligent but has dyspraxia (which means he's a bumbling idiot with 2 left feet!!!). He's a really good kid who just needs some stable people in his life who'll let him take risks and grow.

I took these into the staff room (we have a male and female staff room, how old fashioned is that! Only a handful still left in Britain), not one person said anything stupid, nobody raised an eyebrow, very different if it had been a city school. I had total trust from the staff, but what else could you expect from a tiny rural school?

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It was hardly Ray Mears but I made this with him.
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I figured it would be something he could easily make himself after school from what lays about the local farms.

His next reward at school is going to be making a fire and cooking a rabbit on it.
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Cool!
 
Yorkshire Boy said:
now I'm in a regular school in a market town (basically a tiny village but the locals always call it a market town) in West Wales.
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I hear you, spent a year teaching in a regular school in Caerphilly. Not quite as rural as your school, me having a SAK was quite a show apparently - not for the staff though. But that was 15 years ago, so legislation in the UK was not as strict as it is now.

One thing struck me as odd though. Even back then there seemed to be an info war against youngsters. The media was full of youngsters beating and stabbing people, although there were also youngsters who selflessly helped others, but they got no coverage whatsoever. You had to see that in person to know about it. Was kind of sad.
 
Funny story

Today i was in the student center and a buddy of mine got a package in the mail. He brought it over to the table and tried to cut the tape off with his keys. He finally went "does anybody have a kni.... JAKE!" I held out my hand for him to give me the box so I could open it for him, but he insisted on opening it himself so I told him I'd only open it if I could do it. By then some one else handed him his SAK and he started opening it of course cutting towards himself every time.

The box was a cell phone box and he was excited because his folks said they were getting up grades soon and he thought it was his new phone. He said "please let this be a sweet blackberry" Got the box open and it was a bag of Peanut M&Ms with some smily face stickers. I laughed pretty hard.
 
luckykitty said:
I hear you, spent a year teaching in a regular school in Caerphilly. Not quite as rural as your school, me having a SAK was quite a show apparently - not for the staff though. But that was 15 years ago, so legislation in the UK was not as strict as it is now.

One thing struck me as odd though. Even back then there seemed to be an info war against youngsters. The media was full of youngsters beating and stabbing people, although there were also youngsters who selflessly helped others, but they got no coverage whatsoever. You had to see that in person to know about it. Was kind of sad.
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New teachers get a golden handshake of a few grand (wouldn't the same be most welcome for support staff?:() Perhaps the government should just issue new teachers with a Vic Champ? Now wouldn't that be a refreshing change! :p

Brit kids are nice generally.

Have you ever seen the child of the year and child hero things? That should be shown and taught in schools. Very humbling and awe inspiring stuff indeed...
 
My college borrows it's weapon policy language from the state laws.
Which suggests I can carry anything on campus that I can legally EDC.

I suppose theoretically then I could carry my Izula on my pack-strap, but I don't push it; SAK or Leatherman, maybe a small necker.
 
I just realized this thread has stayed on topic for 5 PAGES!!!

That has to be some kind of RAT sub-forum record!
 
Ahh, to be young enough to even go to college. Socrates was one of my classmates and he only carried stone tablets.
 
Willieboy said:
Ahh, to be young enough to even go to college. Socrates was one of my classmates and he only carried stone tablets.
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Must have been nice to argue for a couple of hours rather than spending three months writing a term paper. :rolleyes:
 
I'm afraid it's too long ago and I don't remember. You see, the Soc man dropped one of his damn stone tablets on my head. Then he argued it was my fault.

D1omedes said:
Must have been nice to argue for a couple of hours rather than spending three months writing a term paper. :rolleyes:
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Willieboy said:
I'm afraid it's too long ago and I don't remember. You see, the Soc man dropped one of his damn stone tablets on my head. Then he argued it was my fault.
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He was definitely a persuasive fellow. ;)

Perhaps if you had a RAT on you he would have thought twice before dropping that tablet. :p
 
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