How do you answer when someone ask you why you EDC?

blade4sell

blade4sell

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So I live in SoCal...business district...I frequently get asked why I carry? I may even go 1 week without using my blade but I have a handful in my mini collection.

I get ask quite a lot, why you carry, it's like there is no purpose to them. For my, it's something I enjoy possessing...people smoke cigarettes, I privately pull out my blade and look at it.

How should I answer?
 
estate4life said:
people smoke cigarettes, I privately pull out my blade and look at it.
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Just to be clear, do you mean you pull out your knife and just look at it in view of others, but not to use it for something??

That alone may draw odd looks............

Around here, nobody would ask "why do you carry", because it's to common. The few times I've been asked something like that, I usually just politely point out that it's a handy tool to have sometimes.
 
Tell them its better to have something and never need it, then to need something and not have it. Same principle for concealed carry. Besides its a tool, not a weapon.
 
I just I carry a knife in case I need to cut something and I think I usually have this puzzled look in my face like "isn't it obvious?/why would you even ask that?". I think I've only been asked 2 or 3 times by friends.
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
Just to be clear, do you mean you pull out your knife and just look at it in view of others, but not to use it for something??

That alone may draw odd looks............
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Agreed! If you are sitting around at work doing nothing but fondling your knife in front of everybody, you should be getting back to work.

If you are at work and use your knife to cut something like a box or bag of chips, then, as long as the knife is allowed, you are good to go.

If you are at work, your knife isn't out, and someone asks why you carry a knife, say "To cut things" and/or "Because I like to." I mean, isn't that the reason why you carry a knife? If it's some other reason, tell them that.

This question always seems to come up. :confused: It's like people carry knives, but they don't know why. Odd.
 
Well, when I lived in a more rural area almost every male carried a knife so nobody needed to ask why. Everyone hunted, fished, farmed or was outdoors a lot which are perfect reasons to carry.

I lived in Minneapolis and people there generally didn't see the purpose until they need to open a box or something like that. When I was a kid I got my first Buck knife around 8-9 years old and carried it on my belt everywhere except school. When I got into high school I'd have it in my pocket, even at school and opened boxes for teachers with it and used it for stuff in shop class from time to time. Now days I would be expelled.
 
More people ask me why I always have a flashlight with me,than why do I have a knife with me.and all those people,at some point while around me, have dropped something that rolled under a couch or table,and needed my flashlight.same people wanted my knife to cut loose strings off of clothing, or open a new product.
 
Tell them its better to have something and never need it, then to need something and not have it. Same principle for concealed carry. Besides its a tool, not a weapon.
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yes and yes!!!!
 
"It's like American Express I never leave home without it"
Or
"It's like a condom..I'd rather have it & not need than need it & not have it !!!
 
I'm only 21 so a lot of ppl find it odd that I carry a knife and flashlight everywhere and sometimes a concealed (just got liscenced) they ask me why do I need to carry all "that stuff" around. I just look straight at them and say so I'm prepared for whatever may happen. Sometimes they then say what do expect to happen? I just say when you ask to barrow my flashlight/knife later you'll see or I don't expect anything to happen but in case it does I'm ready.
 
If anyone uses the initialism "EDC" as a verb in my presence, I leave. So if asked, "Why do you EDC a whatever?" I walk away.
 
It's rare I make it through half a day without using a knife much less a week. I started responding with "well how can you trust a man who doesn't keep a good blade on his person at all times?" It is one of mans oldest tools and a necessity for the most basic form of survival to not have a knife on your person is just plain crazy :eek:
 
Forbes listed the Knife as the greatest tool in the history of mankind, and at least 7 of the top 20 were variations of knives, To vikings carrying a knife was the symbol of a free man, and Luke 22:36. knives have been with man so long it should feel odd not to have one
 
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