Have people reacted to your knife with shock or fear?

Kentucky said:
Its a pity, it really is..All I can do is shake my head..
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Yeah there have been a lot of changes in the past 30 years, and NONE for the better.

I used to walk around in town with a .44 Magnum on my belt if I was shooting that day, walk into stores and buy stuff nobody even gave me a 2nd look, and that's including the State Troopers..

We didn't have County Police back then, only State Troopers in my County.
 
stabman said:
Alot of "Back when I was a kid" in this thread...
Well, let me play too.:)
Back when I was a kid, there weren't tactical folders (the only one hand openers were switchblades, which were illegal).
Back when I was a kid, a SAK was okay at school...but I'd still get screwed over for a 4 inch folder or fixed blade.
Back when I was a kid, many of the kids on the playground had nunchuks, homemade throwing stars, etc...but we punched each other rather than use them on each other. Times have changed in that regard (now they USE weapons on each other school).
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Yeah we had fights in school, but NOBODY EVER pulled a knife and just about everyone carried one, the guys anyway.
 
Ankerson said:
Yeah we had fights in school, but NOBODY EVER pulled a knife and just about everyone carried one, the guys anyway.
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Weird how that went, eh?
If people went back to that, there'd be less issues with what we carry.:)
 
jbmonkey said:
Salguod, Sir you have the wrong attitude, imho. knife and gun owners shouldn't have to dance all around weak people and their prejudiced non logical fears. it's this thinking that got us where we are today with both knives and guns. afraid to carry and use(knives only obviously) them.

this is exactly what the anti-gun and anti-knife crowd wants. us voluntarily using and carrying them less to appease a bunch of naive, weak, and sad people...who are afraid of tools. it's a sad world we live in today.
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How are their thoughts non logical and even if so it doesn't make then weak. Yes knives are a tool, but they are also a weapon. There are stabbings everyday commonly with knives. It is logical to get scared o knives you perceive them as a weapon. Although I agree we shouldn't have to avoid using our knives in public it isn't fair to call them weak and nonlogical.
 
keygenkid said:
How are their thoughts non logical and even if so it doesn't make then weak. Yes knives are a tool, but they are also a weapon. There are stabbings everyday commonly with knives. It is logical to get scared o knives you perceive them as a weapon. Although I agree we shouldn't have to avoid using our knives in public it isn't fair to call them weak and nonlogical.
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Those are KITCHEN knives, that is a fact that almost all knife attacks are in the home and in Prison... Not by people carrying their 3.5" or so folders.
 
jbmonkey said:
Salguod, Sir you have the wrong attitude, imho. knife and gun owners shouldn't have to dance all around weak people and their prejudiced non logical fears. it's this thinking that got us where we are today with both knives and guns. afraid to carry and use(knives only obviously) them.

this is exactly what the anti-gun and anti-knife crowd wants. us voluntarily using and carrying them less to appease a bunch of naive, weak, and sad people...who are afraid of tools. it's a sad world we live in today.
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Of course you should have respect and consideration for those around you. Acting responsibly is absolutely crucial in all things... especially when it comes to firearms or knives.
 
keygenkid said:
How are their thoughts non logical and even if so it doesn't make then weak. Yes knives are a tool, but they are also a weapon. There are stabbings everyday commonly with knives. It is logical to get scared o knives you perceive them as a weapon. Although I agree we shouldn't have to avoid using our knives in public it isn't fair to call them weak and nonlogical.
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Because they aren't with what I consider knives
 
The only reactions I got so far are from persons who know me, but not so well that they know about my addiction. And these reactions are always jokes like "What do you plan to kill?" etc. The shocked expression comes when they find out what the knife costs.
My experience so far is that at public places like train stations and the like, people ignore everything and usually don't even notice the knife. There is the occasional look, but not freaked out or scared, it's just not very common to see anything else than a SAK (especially in SAK country :D ). Of course I don't flick it open or show off, but why would you. That I can do at home when I'm bored.

There was one occasion where I got very weird looks, but there even I got surprised: I was on the train to university and while standing up to leave the train, a strap from the backpack got caught on the pocket clip of my (then still black coated, which didn't help) Military. It dropped on the floor and fully opened because of the impact and was lying right in the middle of the isle, with a very surprised family sitting right next to it. But nobody said anything, I just picked it up and left.

As a side question: Is it really illegal to carry a knife at school/college in the USA, even a SAK/traditional?
 
Depends on the school. Look it up in the school rules. I could carry a folding knife at the University I attended.
 
Was taking Plc classes at community college disc got stuck in drive used knife to extract it Teachers eyes got big but never said a word, another instance got a new job and safety directer saw I had clip folder he goes you cant have that two months latter there was a fire and he needed to cut something he asked if he could borrow my knife I said are you dicking with me he said no so I let him he couldn't even close it.
 
I'm a mechanic. It appears to be expected of me to carry a knife. I carry a pocketknife and a leatherman wave.
 
If you're spooking the herd with your antics, you've failed as a knife owner and should probably leave your knife at home until you've learned to:

  • Read your surroundings, and act accordingly.

  • Carry and use (or not use) a tool that's appropriate to those surroundings. A large, threatening "tacitical" folder is overkill 99.9% of the time, and the 0.1% of the time that it is appropriate probably happens only in your mall-ninja dreams. If you must carry a knife for use around people, choose something small and non-intimidating, and use it as quietly and discretely as possible, or not at all. I don't like that idea any more than you do, but that's the reality of our culture these days.

  • Grow up, stop acting like a selfish juvenile idiot, and accept that, like it or not, most people see knives as weapons, and view those who carry them as potential assailants.

Those "sheeple" may be "sad, frightened, weak and brainwashed" or however some of you label them while preening about how faux-tough or enlightened you imagine yourselves to be, but collectively, they have the power to severely curtail our knife privileges, just as they have in many other countries. Thanks, but I'd rather not have to give my up my EDC tools because a few posers feel like flashing their dicks in public.
 
sturzi said:
As a side question: Is it really illegal to carry a knife at school/college in the USA, even a SAK/traditional?
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I wasnt illegal where I went to college, still isnt. I know that in several of larger schools in here in Kentucky it isnt either..Cant speak for all of them..Ive traveled a lot of over the US and Ive come to find that my home state is many,many times more gun/knife friendly than most places the gov't has sent me too..Im just use to enviroments where knives are in every pocket, guns are in every home,vehicle and many waistbands..
When I read some posts about certain states knife laws and how people in public react I am genuinly supprised.
I had never heard the term "Mall Ninja" until I joined this forum...Ive never seen someone act like that with a knife, thats the honest truth..
 
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A.P.F. said:
Very true, very true. I am a great proponent of knife carry and I encourage people whenever I can.
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We live in a society today were people complain about EVERYTHING, everything is a huge world changing event in their small minds and heaven forbid we say or do anything to upset someone even if everything upsets them..

Like I said wussified Society.... It's really sad, but they call it progress, I call it regression....
 
Ankerson said:
Sounds a lot like the area were I grew up..

Heck I carried a Buck 110 on my belt to HS for 2 years and NEVER had a problem and this was in MD.

Times have certainly changed for the worse in the past 30 years..
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Isn't that the truth...When I was growing up, if you had to cut something, and asked someone to borrow their knife, they'd look at you and ask "where's yours?" and more than likely tell you no! :D
 
ono724 said:
Isn't that the truth...When I was growing up, if you had to cut something, and asked someone to borrow their knife, they'd look at you and ask "where's yours?" and more than likely tell you no! :D
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I know what you mean, just about everyone carried a knife of some kind..

I will agree though that there will always be certian types that will act like idiots and those are the ones who make all of us look bad.

Use the tool responsibly and be aware of the people around and that might react negatively to the new toy that the idiots want to show off by flipping it open or otherwise drawing attention to themselves.
 
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sturzi said:
....As a side question: Is it really illegal to carry a knife at school/college in the USA, even a SAK/traditional?
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State by state. In TN, yes. Though you're very unlikely to get called on it on college level unless you've done something else bizarre. And actually, under state statues, penalty is same for possessing handgun on school property. And that's ANY knife of ANY length.

- OS
 
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