I found this articlehttp://lawenforcementtoday.com/tag/slip-joint-knives/ and it kind of got under my skin a little bit. Here's a piece of it-
"With that said let me talk of a truly dangerous type of knife. A dangerous knife is the kind of knife the bureaucrats and law makers want all of us to have access to. The bureaucrats and politicians want you and me to have what they perceive as a safe knife such as a slip joint knife. Slip joint knives have no locks nor can they take any force against their blades. A folding knife without a locking device is extremely dangerous to hold and use. Anyone like me who grew up with the old slip joint knives, be they Swiss army knives, boy scout knives or gentlemans pocket folders knows of what I speak. Slip joint knives dont have a locking mechanism but a holding bar under spring tension which keeps the blade from closing onto your fingers. Its not designed to do anything but keep the inadvertent closing of the knife while its held in an open position. Any pressure on the back of the blade, on a slight angle to the blade will cause the slip joint to fail and for the blade to close onto your fingers. I hate this slip joint design and I like many others bear numerous scars on my hands and fingers where under use the slip joint has failed and the blade has cut my fingers and or my hands. To use a slip joint knife takes great care and slow dedicated cutting with exact blade alignment using ONLY the edge because anything else is a recipe for disasters. A slip joint knife cannot be used for work especially hard work, rescue or the like because its very design can cause the user great harm while trying to do anything but simplistic cutting motions. I guess a slip joint knife is good for the emergency medical profession, surgeons and first aid companies by causing injuries that need to be fixed. Trust the bureaucrats and politicians to want a knife that does more harm than good and then legislate it as the answer to dangerous knives and behavior with knives."
Do most people nowadays think like this? From my experience, slipjoints hold up very well to hard use as long as you know how to use one without "maiming" yourself. Just food for thought. People crack me up.
"With that said let me talk of a truly dangerous type of knife. A dangerous knife is the kind of knife the bureaucrats and law makers want all of us to have access to. The bureaucrats and politicians want you and me to have what they perceive as a safe knife such as a slip joint knife. Slip joint knives have no locks nor can they take any force against their blades. A folding knife without a locking device is extremely dangerous to hold and use. Anyone like me who grew up with the old slip joint knives, be they Swiss army knives, boy scout knives or gentlemans pocket folders knows of what I speak. Slip joint knives dont have a locking mechanism but a holding bar under spring tension which keeps the blade from closing onto your fingers. Its not designed to do anything but keep the inadvertent closing of the knife while its held in an open position. Any pressure on the back of the blade, on a slight angle to the blade will cause the slip joint to fail and for the blade to close onto your fingers. I hate this slip joint design and I like many others bear numerous scars on my hands and fingers where under use the slip joint has failed and the blade has cut my fingers and or my hands. To use a slip joint knife takes great care and slow dedicated cutting with exact blade alignment using ONLY the edge because anything else is a recipe for disasters. A slip joint knife cannot be used for work especially hard work, rescue or the like because its very design can cause the user great harm while trying to do anything but simplistic cutting motions. I guess a slip joint knife is good for the emergency medical profession, surgeons and first aid companies by causing injuries that need to be fixed. Trust the bureaucrats and politicians to want a knife that does more harm than good and then legislate it as the answer to dangerous knives and behavior with knives."
Do most people nowadays think like this? From my experience, slipjoints hold up very well to hard use as long as you know how to use one without "maiming" yourself. Just food for thought. People crack me up.
