Ever pull out your edc and scare someone?

aarong50 said:
I feel bad for you having to explain why you carry a knife. Fortunately where I work (leo) people think its cool when I bring in my new AR-15 and everyone wants to handle it. I guess it really depends on your enviroment.
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Where I work is pretty laid back as well. Its just in past jobs and out in the "real world" that I find this issue.
 
I'm a stay at home dad with my five children. I'm forever asking my teen boys to make sure they carry their Swiss Army knives. My 14 year old daughter, who I never really stressed carrying a knife to, recently took over my Benchmade Mini Dejavoo. I'm guilty of asking her for her knife when I forget mine. Amazingly she always has hers with her. With my boys it's a 50/50 proposition. I think it's great when she is helping her mother in the kitchen and she flicks open the benchmade to cut something. Her mother just looks at her, than me, and rolls her eyes, My wife has given up a long time ago with the "don't you think they're too young for knives" crap.
 
Locust said:
She turned to me and asked "Why do you have those?!" I was obviously shocked and responded with "They're pliers. It's a multitool." She answered that with "But why would you even have that?"
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At which point I'm afraid I would've had to have looked at what I'd been working on, spread my arms to encompass it, looked at her and said "Well, duh."

Sorry, low tolerance for blindingly stupid people.
 
Locust said:
For me the weirdest incident didn't even involve the knife it's self. I worked at a country club over the summer and we were setting up for an outdoor wedding reception. It was under one of those massive tents. While we were setting up it started to rain and we had to unroll the sides which were held up by zipties. The banquet manager went at it with scissors and I decided to help her. I pulled out my multitool and started clipping away with the wire cutters attached to the needle nose (worked really well too). She turned to me and asked "Why do you have those?!" I was obviously shocked and responded with "They're pliers. It's a multitool." She answered that with "But why would you even have that?" Good thing she never saw me cut boxes open with a folder.
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I've had someone say "why do you have those pliers you could stab someone with it" wtf?
 
When people ask me why I have a knife, I tell them to go home and make a finely chopped salad without using a knife...then I just walk away:cool:
 
strykersng said:
I'm a stay at home dad with my five children. I'm forever asking my teen boys to make sure they carry their Swiss Army knives. My 14 year old daughter, who I never really stressed carrying a knife to, recently took over my Benchmade Mini Dejavoo. I'm guilty of asking her for her knife when I forget mine. Amazingly she always has hers with her. With my boys it's a 50/50 proposition. I think it's great when she is helping her mother in the kitchen and she flicks open the benchmade to cut something. Her mother just looks at her, than me, and rolls her eyes, My wife has given up a long time ago with the "don't you think they're too young for knives" crap.
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:thumbup: Teaching kids early about knife safety and the advantages/ease of work that a decent pocket knife offers is great.
 
You know, maybe the problem is not that we all carry "weapons" but that these people see weapons and threats everywhere. "Paranoid much?" should be our response to these ridiculous questions.
 
Was out at a korean bbq joint with some friends, my girl wanted to try the grilled octopus, but it is a tricky thing to separate a tentacle from the body with nothing but chopsticks... so I used a fullsize manix i was carrying... only one guy across the table saw, he was midway through a drink of kirin when he spit his beer out, haha. I let him check it out later, less worried after that.

Speaking of this girl - i "snuck" a peek at her ebay account because i was curious about my xmas gift she was keeping a secret, looks like a PE ATR for me.

DC
 
dangerouscold said:
Speaking of this girl - i "snuck" a peek at her ebay account because i was curious about my xmas gift she was keeping a secret, looks like a PE ATR for me.

DC
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:eek: lucky, all I'll get is some knife with made in pakistan on the blade :grumpy:.
oh an your girl has great taste, sounds like a keeper if I was you.
 
rick43t3 said:
... They want a man who is not really a man, but a thing that is wrapped around their fingers. I see so many guys acting this way nowadays. I don't know what is causing this but it is a very bad thing.
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I know what's causing it.

I'll give you a hint.

Starts with a V.
 
The sad thing is the country has swallowed the kool aid and we with our knives and guns are certainly the minority. We will eventually be like Britain. It scares the shit out of me because I read that home invasion is the fastest growing crime, Our dutiful recourse to crime will be allow ourselves to be the victim because if we defend ourselves we might hurt some thug who was abused as a child or some other BS.
 
mr2blue said:
The sad thing is the country has swallowed the kool aid and we with our knives and guns are certainly the minority. We will eventually be like Britain. It scares the shit out of me because I read that home invasion is the fastest growing crime, Our dutiful recourse to crime will be allow ourselves to be the victim because if we defend ourselves we might hurt some thug who was abused as a child or some other BS.
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So you concede Knives = Weapons?
 
Ozy said:
So you concede Knives = Weapons?
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What is a weapon, but a tool for a specific task? A knife would be a multitool, being able to fill multiple roles as a tool for cutting/perforating.

For instance cut your steak or a would-be attacker. Yes it could even be used as an offensive weapon, just like a fork could, or a rock, or a pen, or a screwdriver, or a zip tie, or a piece of string, or a... you get the idea. Loads and loads of everyday items are usually much more handy and deadly in a fight, than a knife would be.
 
monsterdog said:
What is a weapon, but a tool for a specific task? A knife would be a multitool, being able to fill multiple roles as a tool for cutting/perforating.

For instance cut your steak or a would-be attacker. Yes it could even be used as an offensive weapon, just like a fork could, or a rock, or a pen, or a screwdriver, or a zip tie, or a piece of string, or a... you get the idea. Loads and loads of everyday items are usually much more handy and deadly in a fight, than a knife would be.
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I'm thankful for this honesty, I believe we are all made to feel guilty if we are empowered by an inert object in some way. This hasn't happened overnight, it has been a steady decline in human behaviour, escalated by massacre, tragedy, and accident.
We are fast becoming denied of our basic empowerment, self reliance, and independence.
 
A weapon is anything that is employed to damage a biological target.

Bleach, water, nitrogen, a fist, a bucket of paint, hammer, a vehicle...its all about application.
 
I have had all kinds of reactions ha ha ha one time I was in Baghdad at the APO and took off my neck carry broker switch and WOW people started really eyeing me
been stoped in clubs// bars/dinners/ and had to leave at the desk/bartender.
Had a cop in the Manila Lrt start giveing me grife untill I showed some I.D. I was carrying a 6 inch Tri-Lite It just goes on and on .Got A lot of grife getting on a plane { not in the states} because of handcuff /garrot /razzor /kerbat / zip gunn ectectect. / I did get on with my tools Some of my guys in my group are kinda stand offish because of they type of wepons that I have
and the uses
Got to go
Chris
 
I've had only a couple memorable eperiences-

One time in a Borders book store I used the scissors on an Officer's model to cut a gift certificate from the card thingy, and the register clerk actually refused to help me and made me go get rung up by the manager because I was brandishing a weapon. Yes, a .75 inch pair of double bladed sekret ninja POWER, baby.

I had one of the local police dispatchers talk to me about my EDC fixed blade a while back. It's this one:
(since overwrapped with green 550)

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first blade I ever forged, all of 4 inches of cutting edge, no guard, no tactical nuthin. It's harder than hell and cuts like a laser, and it's the first one I forged, so I keep it.

She was asking me why I carried a weapon. I explained the various tool uses it performs through the day, told her it was far more useful and far less of a weapon than a hammer. She decided that one of the local cops would probably stop me for carrying it because it could be considered a weapon.

At this point in time I'd been taking hapkido for 2 years. I weigh 220, and can lift some of my classmates off the floor with a punch (the smaller ones. For medium sized peopl it takes a front kick). This doesn't make me special, anyone with my mass and a couple months of lifting could do the same after 2 years of training! I told her that there was no way in hell I'd risk my hands on a guardless 4 inch blade when I could just hit someone.

These days, everyone EXPECTS me to have a knife. I've mad a dozen or more of the ones used in the local restaurants and several of the hunters and local outdoorsy students have blades I made. Everyone knows what I do for a living, and it's be pretty strange for me to not have - not only a knife- but the RIGHT knife :D

Now, this whole topic leads me to a conclusion. Since this applies to multitools and SAKs as much as citizens, Striders, and Emersons- maybe it's the threat people feel from seeing a person being prepared to Do Stuff. Sounds funny, but it ain't. Doing Stuff scares the shit out of people. And people who Do Stuff outside of movies make sheeps VERY VERY uncomfortable.
 
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