dealing with friends who are not knife persons....

[Fallbrook Forge]

wow..... I don't.....wha.....I cannot stand anti gun police......

 

[THG]

When i was in 5th grade, our Dare officer told us to bring all our toy guns in (if it was alright with out parents) Then she put then in a big plastic bag and has the kids jump on them on them... Wow.

Was she, perhaps, the police chief of san francisco, the woman who has never fired a Daisy in her life?

 

[Jennifer_B]

When i was in 5th grade, our Dare officer told us to bring all our toy guns in (if it was alright with out parents) Then she put then in a big plastic bag and has the kids jump on them on them... Wow.

Did that valuable lesson help you resist drugs?

 

[macgregor22]

My Aunt and her husband live in San Fran.
There son is the biggest pussy I have ever seen, he sees my knife and he feels threatened and hes still afraid of the dark.
They all are tofo eating suckers, obsesed with food and stuff like that.
Heck, there son goes to a all spanish speaking school.
Her husband is one of those questioning sheeple.
I had to listen to him ask me why I think I need to carry a knife and what do I think is gona happen over and over for about an hour before I told him to STFU.
They think I'm just some crazy boy from ohio that is behind the "curve".
Curve of what, stupidity and weakness.

 

[Stainz]

I found the best way to 'break the ice' with someone who doesn't appreciate your carrying knives is effected by describing the louder CCW you may or may not have in another pocket. I tried to carry 'sheeple'-friendly knives - but, in the final analysis, knives are a tool to me - they make some parts of my life simpler, period. I won't be cleaning my fingernails - or picking my teeth - with a Rambo-reject, but I may open my junque mail with something other than a letter opener... within legal boundaries, of course. Stainz

 

[robicon]

A guy posted about a school campout and his plan to take his “banned” knife, kept out of sight, for “emergency survival.” Later he posts how helpful his knife was to the guides. He just couldn’t resist showing off that knife.

A while back a famous “pickup line” was “want to come up and see my etchings.” Of course the word “etchings” could be replaced with any number “somethings”

“Kramer” of Seinfield fame was dragged off stage in the middle of his comedy routine because of using “racist language.” He failed to read his audience.

I watched a ill coworker open a brief case and I was shocked seeing at least twenty medicine bottles. In a medicine chest or drawer my shock would have been a lot milder.

My round about point is - read your audience, make sure she’s receptive to seeing your “etchings” and for Pete"s sake, find a classy way to do a display instead of the gun case on your bed.

A hint that works, refer to your collection as “cutlery” and connect individual pieces to their use as a tool.

It’s bad advice to have a “tough if they don’t like it” attitude about sheeple because they are the same people that will vote away your right to carry or collect knives. That may be reality within the next 20 years.

Allow me to play devil's advocate for a bit.

There are those who advocate open carry in an effort to open the minds of those who get squeamish at the sight or thought of a firearm. Essentially reconditioning sheeple.

These groups believe that over time sheeple will come to realize that guns are not innately evil. A revolver/pistol simply doesn't jump out of holsters and kill people. And that doctors, dentists, lawyers, businessmen, and other familymen (and women) own and carry firearms for pleasure and protection.


Now, I think the best way to go about doing what opencarry.org and others propose is somewhere in the middle. In the state of TN. open carry is not allowed, but I can (and do) carry concealed. To be honest, even if it were legal I'd probably make an effort to conceal my sidearm.


Just thought I'd throw that out there...

 

[jetsrb32]

You should tell those sheeple people to remove all of their kitchen knives from their home and see how easy it is to eat that steak and cut those veg...KNIVES ARE KNIVES ARE KNIVES

 

[Gunfucius]

When i was in 5th grade, our Dare officer told us to bring all our toy guns in (if it was alright with out parents) Then she put then in a big plastic bag and has the kids jump on them on them... Wow.

Why would a DARE officer have anything to do with guns? Lady shoulda stuck to the subject at hand, and not brought her personal crusade with her to work. If you ask me, the lady wasn't doing her job. As much as I want to teach people that there is nothing wrong with guns and knives, I would not do it while I was supposed to be teaching them about drugs.

 

[Benjamin Liu]

Why would a DARE officer have anything to do with guns? Lady shoulda stuck to the subject at hand, and not brought her personal crusade with her to work.

I had a math teacher that preached gun control, and was either very ignorant or intentionally lying when he told me that I was wrong, but the class were brainwashed sheeple who believed him. He insisted that I was wrong and that in reality, the Swiss (in 1989) banned guns and no one there has any. He did not beleive they had a militia system.

 

[crustaceanmick]

Biologically speaking, humans are natural predators. (our eyes are located in the front of our head so we can look directly at prey with both eyes, as opposed to animals that have eyes on the sides of their head, so they have a wider angle of vision to watch for predators)

The KILLER INSTINCT is imbedded in ALL of us.

This SUBCONSCIOUSLY scares the HELL out of a lot of people.

Fear of weapons is a MISPLACED emotion.


(this PSYCHOanalysis was brought to you by an idiot with a psawzall!!!)

 

[macgregor22]

I had a math teacher that preached gun control, and was either very ignorant or intentionally lying when he told me that I was wrong, but the class were brainwashed sheeple who believed him. He insisted that I was wrong and that in reality, the Swiss (in 1989) banned guns and no one there has any. He did not beleive they had a militia system.

WHAT!
He was truely an idiot.
The swiss have less gun laws then us.
Members of their Militia can commonly be seen walking around town with rifles on their backs even while in plain clothes.
Thats why I love Switzerland, they are a tiny but strong and independent country.

 

[Roger999]

My Aunt and her husband live in San Fran.
There so is the biggest pussy I have ever seen, he sees my knife and he feels threatened and hes still afraid of the dark.
They all are tofo eating suckers, obsesed with food and stuff like that.
Heck, there son goes to a all spanish speaking school.
Her husband is one of those questioning sheeple.
I had to listen to him ask me why I think I need to carry a knife and what do I think is gona happen over and over for about an hour before I told him to STFU.
They think I'm just some crazy boy from ohio that is behind the "curve".
Curve of what, stupidity and weakness.

I eat tofu lol.

 

[crustaceanmick]

Obsessed with food!?!

Hell, real men don't even bother with eating!

If you think that what you put into your body is less important than what kind of knife you carry, then I'd have to agree with those tofo eating suckers.
You ARE on the wrong side of the curve.

PS. What's a tofo?
PPS. And what's the stuff that's NOT food, but LIKE it?

 

[macgregor22]

Oh I eat healthy, I just eat meat to.
Sometimes meat I have hunted and killed myself, which of course sets them off in a tizzy also.

 

[siguy]

(in this case, i just read the first page and am moving on...)

luckily, i don't have this issue. all of my friends are pretty cool with my knife thing, especially when i come in handy to start the fire or to open something up.

also, a few girls have had very little trouble getting used to my knives when i pull out the small penknives and encourage them to whittle with me. one girl was particularly interested so i made her a small whittling knife with some leftover steel that i had.

people are always really cool about when it comes up that i make knives...they are always interested about the process and what goes into it... one of my friends was just here last night making a fantasy knife actually. i just had him pay for steel and a couple of bucks to cover wear on belts, but he had a blast and he left feeling very proud. i just did the finish grinding...

so in short, just approach it gently and include them when you can, and don't do anything you don't want them doing if you hand them a knife. had someone almost cut themself trying to duplicate the shaved arm test i just showed them...

but if they are totally unconsiderate of you and can't see past the knives, don't mention the knives or don't keep the friends. there are some people that i just don't mention the knives around, especially when i'm in school...i've had some teachers afraid that i was about to pull out a knife (in fact it was photos of a knife i brought to show a friend). but even he was cool about it...i was like hey do you want to see? he was like no don't take that out here...i don't want to know. which if it had turned bad could have been bad for him, but i appreciate him being cool.

eh long winded...sorry.

but either fly low on the radar or just be more careful with who you talk about it with.

 

[Bushman5]

wow, i never expected so many replies, great advice and similar stories. Thanks all!

 

[sodak]

Every time I visit, his wife still takes a look at what is on my belt. Most of the time I wear my shirts over my pants, which is a good thing, since I would not want to see her reaction if she were to see that big fixed blade I often carry.

Make sure the next time she does that, she sees you taking a look at her b*******... Then you can explain how it's equally offensive to you.

 

[sodak]

PS. What's a tofo?

It's tofu. It's a Japanese word for "whale snot".

 

[jkarp_53]

Patience is called for, and often. There are folks who aren't like you and me who don't have either respect, or "listening" for the love we have of our knives.

Maybe it's a "generational" thing, where they weren't brought up with the need to have good cutlery around, other than dull butterknives, and so don't understand HOW important these things are to us.

And then again, in my circle of friends and family I have not encountered the abject fear described in the early posts in this thread.

If I've heard anything repeated over and over, it's "things have changed..." so I've learned to hold off, not invite folks I don't know into my "knife conversations", and maybe I'm the better off for that.

Will I change about the love I have for my knives? Absolutely not! But I may think twice about telling someone what's in my pocket!

 

[sodak]

WHAT!
He was truely an idiot.
The swiss have less gun laws then us.
Members of their Militia can commonly be seen walking around town with rifles on their backs even while in plain clothes.
Thats why I love Switzerland, they are a tiny but strong and independent country.

Agreed. I was in Switzerland in 1999. My wife and I were having drinks in a pub, when a bunch of young men in uniform came in, slung their Uzi's on their chairs, and tossed a few beers back also. I felt like I was in heaven!!!