Knife on the Bus!

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atavist said:
... if not looking like he just got in from the back country on horseback I'd give a guy with a 10" fixed blade a curios look too...
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Honestly then you're no better than the lunatics who think carrying a 5"blade shouldn't be allowed. If whatever size blade someone is carrying falls within the perimeters of the law who cares, and it shouldn't be thought as odd or weird. It May not be practical for some but for others it might be.

I carry what I want and when I want, I could care less if someone doesn't approve of my choice of blade.
 
See it all the time here in Alaska, I love it. I carry a few with me at all times and have only been asked once what I was carrying, not why. It was my Randall Fireman.
 
savage99 said:
Where abouts in canada are you i live and study in manitoba and people give me dirty looks like crazy if I pull out even the most mundane of folding knives.
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I used my ZT 0350BW to slice open a pallet of something at Costco in Winnipeg (as a customer, not an employee) and there were probably 30 other customers around me, minimum, and there were no issues whatsoever.

Used the same knife at a home depot in winnipeg also, no issues, and I think the employee helping me was just happy he didn't have to go get a box cutter.

I don't live in Winnipeg, I live in a smaller town in Manitoba - I have just as easy a time outside the big city, and I see even more knife clips or knives sheathed on belts outside the city too.
 
zactolanakazakaraman said:
I was in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and (homeless scene) people had Bowie knives and big sticks they walked around with, one man wore a kilt and open carried a revolver. One man had a sword in a playground, someone who told me about it was looking for an excuse to get violent against the sword carrying man so he didn't hurt the children.
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WTF :confused:
 
And in other news, there was a man in the downtown area with a gun and knife, that did not spontaneously kill everyone in sight. Now on to the weather. Dick? Thanks Jane. The coming storm looks to be deadly..... [emoji56]
 
I was hiking pretty in the woods the other day and crossed paths with some guy in a business suit carrying an attache`.
I didn't give him a second glance.
It's perfectly legal and he has every right to do it.



Oh wait, that would never be the outcome if the story was true.
 
I was in a whole foods in Colorado Springs. My wife asked one of the workers to open a box on the top shelf. He got it down then asked me if he could borrow my knife (a buck folder in my pocket). She asked him how he knew I had a knife. He said ma'am, in Colorado every man has a knife. So she asked him where was his. The look on his face and the others standing around was priceless.
 
robgmn said:
I was hiking pretty in the woods the other day and crossed paths with some guy in a business suit carrying an attache`.
I didn't give him a second glance.
It's perfectly legal and he has every right to do it.



Oh wait, that would never be the outcome if the story was true.
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Hey, if I run across some guy in the woods with an attaché case and wearing a suit, I'm not giving him any weird looks. ;)
 
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stabman said:
Windsor, Ontario.
200 thousand people...so not the hugest, but definitely counts as a city. :)
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That does sound amazing. I almost want to say that if this went down in Toronto, it'd be on the news already because the (pessimist) side of me would expect someone to have called TPS already :rolleyes:
 
gusto5 said:
That does sound amazing. I almost want to say that if this went down in Toronto, it'd be on the news already because the (pessimist) side of me would expect someone to have called TPS already :rolleyes:
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Yup, and we know already that the TPS doesn't like knives very much...
 
Reverse psychology I guess: if you have malicious intents you oughta conceal your weapon.
Here I occasionally see people walking with puukko on their hip, most of the time in hunting outfit though, and nobody cares. I think a lot of people don't even notice. Surprisingly many people don't pay attention to any details.
 
My 2c:- I used to think we have weird laws here in India but apparently they are just unevloved.
Button actuated (Automatic) or spring actuated (assisted opening) folders of any length are not legal to carry in public, though one hand openers are not included in this definition. Fixed blades of under 23CM (9") are legal to carry and wear in most places in India. And though no one really does, a small folder snapping open does raise eyebrows a lot more than a much bigger fixed blade especially if it does not look too "soldierly" i.e. tactical.
 
stabman said:
This is not a really exciting story; it is more of story of nothing happening.

Yesterday I was taking the bus to the university, when a man got on. He was wearing a rather sizeable fixed blade knife, right in the open, outside of all outerwear.
It looked to be a generic, cord-wrapped handle, one of those knives that costs $30 at most. About a 5-6 inch blade. Cheep Cordura (or similar looking material) sheath, no retention strap.

The interesting thing was no one cared at all.
The driver did not care.
The other passengers did not care.
The foreign girl he sat down beside who definitely saw the knife did not care.

Now sure, he was doing nothing odd, but it flies in the face of all those stories of people freaking out about knives in public, especially in urban areas. :thumbup:
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Well jeez, it's not like that's aberrant behaviour or anything. Maybe next time you can invite him to sit next to you and have a little chat about openly carrying fixed blades in public, and how wonderfully free it makes everyone feel.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=5e5e949c-989a-47f7-86da-53801510af24
I had a long chat with the mother of a young RCMP officer that attended the bus beheading scene. The memories still bother him.
 
It is legal to 'open carry' any knife here in Missouri. If I have to use my knife in public I try not to flash it or "snap" it open. I act like it's no big deal and go on with my business.
 
upnorth said:
Well jeez, it's not like that's aberrant behaviour or anything. Maybe next time you can invite him to sit next to you and have a little chat about openly carrying fixed blades in public, and how wonderfully free it makes everyone feel.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=5e5e949c-989a-47f7-86da-53801510af24
I had a long chat with the mother of a young RCMP officer that attended the bus beheading scene. The memories still bother him.
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What's your point with that link? Mentally ill people shouldn't have knives?
 
upnorth said:
Well jeez, it's not like that's aberrant behaviour or anything. Maybe next time you can invite him to sit next to you and have a little chat about openly carrying fixed blades in public, and how wonderfully free it makes everyone feel.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=5e5e949c-989a-47f7-86da-53801510af24
I had a long chat with the mother of a young RCMP officer that attended the bus beheading scene. The memories still bother him.
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That poor rcmp officer... :rolleyes: How about the guy who got hacked to death because no one had the means or intention to stop the attacker? Or the kids family?

Just how does this situation represent legal, law abiding, responsible knife owners in Canada? Oh wait, it doesn't.
 
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