In trouble over knives?

Originally posted by peacefuljeffrey
So what if they don't know your intentions? Being prejudiced against a person who carries a knife just because you don't know his intentions -- even though he's not doing anything menacing -- is no better than being prejudiced against a person who is big and muscular and black walking into a burger joint just like the person with the knife. Are you going to just assume the worst regarding what he's going to do with those muscles, or maybe regarding the fact that he's black?...
---Jeffrey
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Admiral sentiments, but maybe you could practise what you preach a bit better. Your comment "(women, all of them, and one was so dykey looking it was all I could do to not rip into her for <i>that</i>)" is pretty prejudiced and offensive itself. Apart from judging people based on appearance (which you criticize doing just above), it implies that there is something wrong with being a lesbian. You may not like it, but it's perfectly legal. She should have to hide it no more than we should have to hide our legal knives from people who don't approve.

chris
 
Originally posted by peacefuljeffrey


What Placeknives recounted is actually reason against banning knife carry: they were truly not doing any harm or menace to anyone. Why is it that you seem to think like an anti, suggesting that antis would somehow be right to scream for a knife ban because some guys were actually *gasp* carrying knives?! Good people doing something harmlessly -- but possibly being prepared with tools to act in their own defense in an emergency is not cause to argue for a ban on anything.

---Jeffrey
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Well....didn't get my point, huh? Sorry about that. You say I think like an anti??? Hardly. Hell, I've a fulltime knifemaker for 15 years. How about you, Jeff??

Maybe you should re-read my post a few more times.

Certain types are ready to ban ANYTHING. Look at nailclippers and airplanes........kids being suspended from school for making their hands represent guns during play. The list goes on and on.....you've read it in the news.

.......but possibly being prepared with tools to act in their own defense in an emergency is not cause to argue for a ban on anything.

Jeffrey, this was a picnic. This is paranoid behavior at the max.

.......they were truly not doing any harm or menace to anyone

Who are you to determine if it was menacing to anyone? I submit the MANY people at a picnic would be menaced by this behavior.

Jeffrey, from the tone of your post, you seem very hostile, and a bit arrogant.

I wouldn't want to be around you when you wear your Bowie at the 8th grade picnic.

Regards
AL P
 
Originally posted by chrisbrogden
Admiral sentiments, but maybe you could practise what you preach a bit better. Your comment "(women, all of them, and one was so dykey looking it was all I could do to not rip into her for <i>that</i>)" is pretty prejudiced and offensive itself. Apart from judging people based on appearance (which you criticize doing just above), it implies that there is something wrong with being a lesbian. You may not like it, but it's perfectly legal. She should have to hide it no more than we should have to hide our legal knives from people who don't approve.

chris
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Bravo!
One of the great things about this country is a general "live and let live" attitude. We all want to be left alone to do or persue what makes us happy and in return; we sometimes need to just schrug and say, "What ever floats your boat!"

Unfortunately, not everyone feels that way. Many believe that their own personal opinion on many things should be made into laws.
 
That's the sad part...there are too many young officers that are out to make a name for themselves, but in the mean time, the name they earn, is not fit to say in the company of a Lady.

I think it would be great if officers would learn a wee bit about their state laws & regulations BEFORE becoming a police officer. I think it just might cut down on incidences like the one you just described...either that or I'm just dreaming.

I have traveled all over this grand country & (thankfully) never had a problem with any law enforcement when it comes to carrying a fixed blade knife.
 
I think carrying a big bowie around is a little excessive, and probably more than a little uncomfortable. Mr. Michael Sastre showed me and my dad how he carries his IWB and it surprised the heck out of us. Maybe it's more of a deterrent than anything else, but I think 7 inches is probably the biggest blade a person should reasonably carry. No laws or anything to regulate it, just good ol' common sense.
 
JAMES09 said:
That's the sad part...there are too many young officers that are out to make a name for themselves, but in the mean time, the name they earn, is not fit to say in the company of a Lady.

I think it would be great if officers would learn a wee bit about their state laws & regulations BEFORE becoming a police officer. I think it just might cut down on incidences like the one you just described...either that or I'm just dreaming.

I have traveled all over this grand country & (thankfully) never had a problem with any law enforcement when it comes to carrying a fixed blade knife.
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Your first post is to ressurect an 8 year old thread, nice. Well welcome to the forums and back on topic. I have never had any trouble for carrying knives and I started EDCing fixed blades on my belt last summer. I can walk by the campus police at college and the biggest reaction I get is admiration.
 
If a stranger walkes into McDonalds with a big axe in his hands, would not you look at him and be wary? Or if he say handles a baseball bat - would not you be a little bit concearned about his intentions? Or you belive that these are just simple tools and absolutely legal - so you should not think twice about it? And you will turn your back on him and carri on with your whatever you were doing? So are you stupid enogh to let the legislation to replace your own judgement?
These complaints about shiple really get on me. Probably I do not love all the people enough, and am not such a beliver in peace and love... And I do not believe that everything what is legal is necessarily good, and that every right must be exercised by whoever, wherever and whatever... I basically believe first of all in my own right not to trust and not to like some people - for whatever reason I want... Right?
And I do allways carry a knife. And it is not for self-defeence. I am not that naive - I know there are better means, like avoiding trouble in the first place.
So, but probably what I want to say is that because I like knives, because I carry a knife myself, because I consider knives tools and nice items - it does not mean that I must take any stranger with a knife as an entusiast and like that nice kind human beeing... No! I am an evil man: I may suspect that buitiful stranger of being a bit strange and being out of place, having strange and dangerous ideas, being high and disoriented, or having criminal intentions... Well, I can think of him whatever I find suitable and look at him any way I want... ;)
Well, if it comes to that, I may even enjoy him getting into trouble with the police... :D
 
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