General Availability of One-Handers

anthony cheeseboro

anthony cheeseboro

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Although everybody seems to think that the future of knives is cloudy because of the backlash related to Sept.11, I have noticed that one-handers and multi-tools are more and more available. I noticed that the local Wal-Marts are carrying Leatherman Waves (at prices comparable to internet discounters!) and I even saw a Kershaw Blackout at another Wal-Mart. Of course, I've been seeing Buck one-handers at department stores for years. Although there will always be those members of the public and lawmakers who think they can solve all the world's problems by outlawing simple tools, I believe that the pocket knife will always be here in one form or another and that when the smoke dies down, people will always understand at some level, that a knife is a useful tool, and not just a weapon to used by those who are so inclined.
 
It has been said many times before, but I am going to do so again. They will have to pry my knives from my cold dead fingers. I don't want it come to this, but if I have to I will carry a knife even if it becomes illegal to do so.

I am glad to see that knives are becoming more readily available. If they were in front of people on a daily basis like they used to be I think fewer people would be afraid of them.
 
Thus the inportance of joining ACTI, immediately if not sooner. Also each of us must protest any anti knife legislation, policy or edict in our local community, schools, or work place. We let it happen little by little and then it is gone.
 
Darn right Ed, I will fight tooth and nail for my rights as a knife owner and for the rights of any law abiding knife user. What scares me is when I read that a new law resticting the use of knives just a little bit more, could have been worse, so we should be happy that the new law only went as far as it did. We should not be happy at all that our rights as knife owners are being slowly erroded. The legislators that want to get rid of knives know that if they do it in small steps, bit by bit, little by little, that it will be more palatable for people to accept. One day we will wake up, we will wonder what happened and it will be to late, because once laws are brought in to eliminate knives there is no way that we are going to get them reversed.

I am up on my soap box again and if this bothers some of you, so be it. Knives are a big part of my life and I will not go quietly into the night. I support the AKTI but at times think that they try to hard to appease the legislators. I know they think they are doing the best they can, and maybe they are. They give a little so that they can keep as much as possible. You can only retreat so far and then you have to stand and fight. In my opinion it is time to stand and fight.

Darn it feels good to go on a good rant once in awhile. I'm climbing down off my soapbox now.
 
OK Keith, MY TURN! One thing that will come to pass, those of us who carry knives will be better prepared to act when and if the time comes. Maybe we will save a life, maybe our own. Those blithering idiots who do not have a knife when one is needed, deserve the results of thier own lack of vision. Somehow if we keep focusing on the knife as a tool that can and does save lives the pendlum will swing back. Maybe a kid in school or worker on a job that will now allow a knife on their person will get in a bind and then just maybe we will see legal action, yea - a suit, against the powers that said no knife. I sincerely hope it happens. A rule on the ranch is that everyone has a knife at all times. My kid was on his way to achool and helping me with a heiffer who had a calf hung up. I asked him to hand me his knife and he said he couldn't take one to school so did not have one available. I went to school with him. We talked to the powers that be and he was allowed to carry a knife. I was ready to fight all the way through the couts if need be. Fastening a seat belt and carrying a knife are both in the same boat. It is now somebody's else's turn on the soap box, lets hear it.!!
 
Of course, banning, restricting, demonizing objects is a politically correct exercise for elected officials who have no clue as to what society really elected them to do. "Sit down and shut up" comes to mind ... :rolleyes:

We've all been through that business of "What do you need that knife for?" How about, "Nothing. I don't need it; I just want it, I like it, I play with it when I don't have a plastic wrapper to open or a piece of twine to cut."

If we are going to get into banning dangerous objects, then start with pulling teens out from behind the wheels of those cars they statistically cannot drive safely. Only, if we don't let them drive at all, how will they ever learn ... ? If they don't grow up with pens, their handwriting will remain forever illegible. If they grow up without knives, they will never understand how utility, self-defense, and pleasure in a finely crafted tool can be an integral part of a well-rounded life.
 
I'm with you guys 110%. Two years ago I gave my 13 year old stepson a Leatherman Micra for Christmas. Later, the next spring, he got caught with it at school and got suspended for a week. I couldn't believe it. I had never heard of anything so stupid. As a farmboy growing up in rural VA I always had a jackknife in my pocket and I'm only 35 now so it wasn't all that long ago.

Times have changed I guess, and I do understand the school thing but I will not stand for those restrictions encroaching on my regular daily life. Incidentally, The week that Dave was suspended I brought him to work with me and paid him $10/hr to paste wallpaper for me. I made sure he understood that what had happened to him was not fair and not right in the least. We also talked about school violence which is definitely a reality and had some really great discussions. He turns out to be a hell of a worker too and he's helped me out lots of times since.
 
You KNOW where I stand!!!!!! So I am NOT a RADICAL war-hawk afterall. Our Government fails miserably in protecting us. We are a REACTIVE nation, the sociopaths of our Country have their agenda, they enter Walmart and they begin their act of terror. Someone calls 911 and the police RESPOND to an act in PROGRESS. by the time they arrive, even if they have a two minute response time, the scumbag will have inflicted serious damage. SCREW THE LAW, I don't plan on bing a statistic EVER AGAIN. So You nailed it......Want my ILLEGAL weapon? STEP OVER the DEAD body of the scumbag and I will hand it to ya.....wolf:mad:
 
I'm in total agreement with the thoughts being vented here. One thing has not yet been mentioned. Next week is Election Day. Make sure your sentiments are duly expressed there. That is the ultimate response.
 
The point that I am trying to make is that despite the wishes of those who are anti-knife, the major retail outlets of America like Walmart, Sears, Target, and Kmart all carry one handers and multi-tools in addition to a wide range of SAKs and traditional pocket knife patterns. That tells me that there is still a significant market for pocket cutlery in the U.S. The catch is that although there is a large market for these tools. Most of the people who buy their knives at department stores are users, not passionate afficianados. These are not the folks who will argue strongly for the right to use or carry a pocket knife, that where folks like us come in. That being said, the fact that knives are so readily available means that knifenuts are not really that far out of the mainstream afterall.
 
This is a familiar story over here, I said it before and I will say it again, look out! Many have laughed at me and Great Britain for our stringent laws on firearms and knives but I forsee the same sooner rather than later for you as well.

99% of the population are NOT KnifeKnuts, they have a vote as well.

In work a month ago a fellow worker asked if I had a knife to cut some card. I handed over my Camillus EDC 154CM model knife and the look I got:eek: ... here it comes "that looks like you could kill someone with that":rolleyes: then for the middle course "I don't like knives"! Why frigging ask for one then chump?:rolleyes:

When she used the knife and it worked very well I might add, she turned to me and said "Does it have to be so sharp?":mad:

When she was finished with the knife, she tried to close it, looked confused and handed it back, she said "Why do you carry a knife like that? I don't like knives":barf:


Because they come in handy and even if a FOOL like you cannot accept it is just a tool!:rolleyes: ;)
But I did not say that...:rolleyes:
 
It would be absolutely great to see knives being considered as tools like they were in the not so distant past. I find that seeing children suspended from school for having a pocketknife makes me very sad. The world is changing and in my opinion, not for the better.
 
General,

You should have said that ;)

"It has to be that sharp so that it is easy to use. It doesn't unlock easily so that your hand is safe from the blade, etc. etc. etc." until this particular non-knife-nuts gets it!
Things about a good quality knife can do.
 
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