Been a super knife nut for many decades but I can't help but agree. Even I might look askance at someone wearing a tomahawk at the grocery store (I own three tomahawks). I s'pose one might come straight from the field for a few groceries but...
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How public are you with your knives?
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Been a super knife nut for many decades but I can't help but agree. Even I might look askance at someone wearing a tomahawk at the grocery store (I own three tomahawks). I s'pose one might come straight from the field for a few groceries but...
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It is worse.
One of our local LEOs was recently ask to speak with members of our neighborhood. He made a comment that I thought was interesting. Calling the masses sheep, he said that not only do they not like criminals to have knives, guns, etc, they also do not want the good guys to have any either. The officer went on to say that sheep are bothered by ANY type of unrest, for any reason. From good guys or bad guys. If there really are people like that, it stands to reason that they may freak out anytime they are pushed out of their comfort zone.
If the sheep, or sheeple, let hysteria, fear, and overreaction mentally groom average knife and gun owner into a wolf, or worse, should we not consider their actions when we carry or use a knife in public? If no other reason than to protect our own rights?
When sheeple mentally paint knife owners as evil(and they do), it is far more dangerous than anything we could do with a blade. They teach family members and friends their moral and political beliefs. But, worse than that, they vote.
Just my opinion.
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Napa Valley... No wonder. Here in Fresno and neighboring Madera counties, our Sheriffs have said that if you can legally own a handgun... We WANT you to apply for a CCW.
Nobody has ever batted an eye when I take out my SAK-type or Multitools. Professors always knew I had one and would ask to borrow it for something (I always made sure to figure out what that something was). People take notice with the large folders and anything flashy you're doing.
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Sounds like the people and leaders in your area have a lot more common sense than here.
Talk about low profile.
I see little reason to carry a tomahawk in an urban setting. I barely see one in a rural area. The woods, sure. To me, general carry of a tomahawk is clearly intended to be a weapon which I frown upon. Better to keep your weapons concealed.
I wear it in the woods, but when I run into town or something I keep it on, and it is a tool not a weapon, the weapon is between your ears.
It is a woods tool, but sometimes I need to go into town, I'm not going to take it off I don't care if it scares the sheeple.
I live in Connecticut. I can legally carry a folding blade less than 4 inches as long as it isn't automatic. Sure I can carry my paramilitary 2 or manix 2, but people here aren't exactly knife people so I usually only have my Delica 4, techno or my SAK. I bring my larger knives to my seasonal landscaping job
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That reminds me of a time I ordered a Pizza from the local bowling alley while at the range. I'd forgotten I had my .22 target pistol on my hip so when I got to the pizza joint they kindly asked me to remove my gun before I paid. I was a bit red
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You keep calling them sheeple you do understand that this isn't the Wild West anymore and carrying a axe on your hip isn't common practice anymore. So for a person to look at you with suspect isn't being sheeple it's being human. It seem to be a attention tool good or bad your getting your attention and your excuse is to call them sheeple. I can carry a ar15 anywhere I want but I don't because I don't need that kinda of attention and if I did it's not common practice to carry a ar15 into a grocery store so the looks I would recive wouldn't be sheeple it would be concen and well warranted.
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Your prerogative. I understand it's a woods tool. I carry an axe and wear full turnout and SCBA gear as a firefighter. If we stop after a call at the store or the gas station I don't carry the axe or wear the SCBA in there. I take it off and leave it in the truck because it's a tool that isn't needed. I would expect anyone to give me a strange look if I did. The other day an ambulance pulled into the ER and the crew was wearing full SCBA. Every single person, including all of us other ambulance crews, looked at them strange. Especially since the patient didn't have any precautions or even a surgical mask on. Found out later why they chose to put it on scene which is understandable, but it wasn't necessary or warranted to wear it during transport or into the hospital in my opinion. But I guess it was their prerogative as well *shrug*
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I think you are misunderstanding this. The question was "How public are you with your knives?" I am very public, and though I "sometimes" carry a hawk it's not all the time usually a few times a year when I'm working the land 70 miles from the city. I sometimes carry a .357 too, but then a lot of folks open carry in the hills so I'm not really out of place. I spent too many years worrying about what others think but I'm of that age where I just don't give a rats patootie anymore.
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Smith357, I'd probably cut you some slack with the hawk. But at the same time, I would probably pay attention while you were around me. Much would depend on how you act and the situation. Just watched The Patriot (movie) today. Dang. You can cause some serious damage with a hawk. Wish I could toss one like Gibson. 
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I'm misunderstanding nothing you repeatedly call people sheeple which isn't the case at all if you open carry anything people will notice simple as that. I carry concealed I like to be another face in the crowed you walk into where I'm at with my kids carrying a tommahak you better belive you are now on my radar they aren't sheeple they are concerned and rightfully so .with the nuts that walk around with knives stuffed in tube socks down their pants and practice tactical knife fighting drilling themselves for what might go down you Better belive there is room for concern. And those examples I just gave you came from threads in this forum so yeah.
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I wonder if knife laws specifically address axes, hatchets and so forth where they exist? Certainly a niche I have never paid any attention to.
So, you're saying that a person who wears their tomahawk to the supermarket rather than take 3 minutes to take it off, is wearing it for attention? Exactly the opposite of what most in this thread are trying to avoid with their knives?
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Yes and if it takes 3 mins to unsnap or pull a tomahawk it must take a week to tie their shoes
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It's just odd and unnecessary.
I saw some bozo walking into a Sherwin Williams with a tape measure clipped to his pocket just to pick up some paint. I don't care that he had a tape measure, but I have no idea what the hell he was going to measure in a paint store
Heck, 90% of the time a painter doesn't even own a tape measureIt's the same with someone carrying an axe at a grocery store. I'm not frightened by them, they're just a clown for my own amusement
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