Ahh, that's pretty much what I thought, no good reason, just opinion.
That is such a stupid question, I don't even know how to answer it, no offense of course
If a guy can't figure out why he doesn't need to carry a bowie knife strapped to his thigh to go see a movie, then I'm pretty sure there's no point in me going any further with this one.:yawn:
Then I must be the stupidest man alive. I mean:
I've yet to leave the house and NEED a sidearm before I come back, yet I carry one -- there's stupid #1.
I carry a knife, fixed blade, even, yet never needed to knife anyone -- stupid #2.
I live on a planet where I can open or concealed carry a firearm and a knife -- must be stupid to live there. . .weather's nice here though, how's it on your planet?
It's fun to fantasize about stuff you think is cool, but actually DOING IT is another matter. Hero-worship in all its descriptions in my view is pretty stupid in general.
"Cool" has nothing to do with it. You're just projecting the only reason YOU can come up with to carry a large knife. Not everyone is limited by such shortsightedness.
Dressing up to see Rocky Horror, well that's just weird, but at least the enthusiasts aren't packing weapons. Thank god.
Maybe they should.
Do you have a lot of knifings at the theatre where you live? Only thing that happens here is you might be slowed down when leaving by some guy with a "Nice steel ya got there, can I see it? This is what I carry."
It'll be even longer when you start comparing firearms.
Please don't remind me a knife is a tool as well as a weapon- intent defines the difference. Carrying a knife which is big and scary in a place where its functionality is close to nil, like a movie theatre, is probably making that blade more weapon than tool.
Unless there's a tall person sitting in front of you whose head you decide to lop off. Then I guess you could call it a pruning shear.
Again with the fear response. A fool's fear of an inanimate object has no bearing on whether or not a man should carry it. Do you live in a communist state? Carry of knives and firearms goes fairly unnoticed here as it's common. Only the urban hive-dwellers show fear, and that's usually those who haven't gotten used to it yet.
Then there's the functionality argument. Let me tell you if you only bring what has an immediate function with you on a day-to-day basis, you're probably a pretty boring and unprepared person. Do you also chide those that carry these little personal survival kits? I mean what functionality does an Altoids fishing kit have at the theatre? But that isn't what it's about is it?
It comes back to the scary part. Not that you're scared of them lopping "someone's" head off, but you're worried that they'll lop YOURS off. Sounds like the liberals screaming that gun carriers are just going to go about shooting people for mouthing off to them. Why? Because it would curtail their DESIRE to mouth off with no consequences. So, I must ask, what are you doing that you're afraid that you'll provoke a large knife wielder to lop your head off at the theatre?
Conclusions:
1.) You're afraid of large knives, and think people should not wear them because of that.
Carrying the knife isn't stupid, being afraid of it is.
2.) You think there's no need to have it. Maybe true, but what bearing does that have on the issue? Unless you own nothing but what you absolutely need, you're now crossing into hypocracy.
3.) You think it has no function, see #2.
4.) You think knives should be utilitarian "Don't start on me with the knives are just tools. . .they can be weapons too." Sure they can. Weapon is one of the primary uses of knives and has been from the beginning. The greatest use of a weapon is to deterr the event where you might have had to use it. I can't think of one instance where a person carrying a large knife has been mugged. However, some were mugged with small knives that the attacker didn't see. The attacker sometimes came out the worse from the encounter, but I'd rather not get intot he encounter in the first place. It's a fairly well known psychological fact that most people fear blade more than they fear guns. The very fact of that fear means the large blade on the hip has functionality, even if you don't have to cut down a tree to make a shelter int he parking lot. Fact is, you DO walk through that (often fairly dark) parking lot leaving the theatre. If a ne'er do well is waiting to mug someone, and there's me with my big knife on hip, and over there is you without one, who's the more likely target?
So just because you fear them and see no use for them does not make it stupid to have one.
I see this same attitude on this board that anyone who carries a blade more than 4" long in the woods is a dolt and doesn't know what they're doing. No, it means they know how to use something in ways you don't.
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