"Knives are Only Good for Killing..."

I got this comment in jest the other day at work regarding the Ritter Gripo taht I carry plainly clipped to my pocket. Bare in mind that I work at an industrial plant one which handed out lcok back pocket knives in the past year for people to use on various tasks on their jobs. " You know there is a company policyu against bringing weapons into the plant... I said well its a damn good thing that this is not a weapon but instead a cutting tool" :D
 
Don't know what it is about knives that strikes so much fear in people -- I was almost fired at work for having a 'dangerous weapon' on my person -- that being a Swiss Army Swiss Tool in it's nylon pouch on my belt. Just that nylon pouch was so 'threatening' to female co-workers, that I was turned in to human resources for acting in a threatening manner with a dangerous weapon. Keep in mind that the tool itself was never out of the pouch. And what was the threatening manner? I walked into the lunch room and got a pepsi out of the refrigerator, half a room away from the 'victims'. I was called into the supervisors office and had to have a conference call with human resources and promise never to bring the 'weapon' to work again! I really don't know how many people have been killed with multi-tools, but I must look deranged I guess.
 
Knives are only good for killing? That kind of closed mindedness really upsets me. Knives are good for many things other than killing such as, maiming, injuring, threatening, torturing, and mutilating.

When I'm not busy using my knives to stab evil ninja terrorists I find that my knives do a great job of opening boxes and slicing my Starbuck's pumpkin scone.
 
My knives are great for killing! I kill things with them all the time*.
By things I mean plants.

No seriously, have you ever seen an undergraduate in the field try to make a cross section of a plant part by trying to tear it in half with their fingers? Sometimes when it comes to killing things nothing beats a knife.
 
jemelby said:
No kidding. That's what someone at work told me the other day when he sees me showing another fellow my Simonich Salish.

This comment was followed up with "Do you actually think your'e ever going to stick someone with that?" To which I responded "I might."
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Would it have been out of line to say:

"I see that you think your p****r-holster doubles as a mouth. Well it doesn't, but nice effort. ...Do you actually think you're ever going to say something that isn't criminally stupid?"
 
I went shopping today and noticed a worker chopping at cardboard with a box cutter. He was literally chopping at it. I was considering handing him my 110 but i was a little too busy at the time. He could have killed that cardboard alot easyer with a decent killing tool.
 
SlimWhitman said:
So he whittles new tent pegs with what, his fingers.

That kind of ignorance makes me violent.

and I paid too much money for my knife to waste it on someone that dumb.
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Slim, like John Ek said when selling knives to the military way back when, they never jam or run out of bullets. Think of it as recycling or using a renewable resource :D
 
"Knives are Only Good for Killing..."

Hands used in strangling and punching have also been used for killing.
Perhaps you could have suggested that hand amputation should be a requirement for employment. After all, following his same logic "Hands are only Good for Killing..."

Reminds me of the anti-gunners slogan that guns are only used for killing. I have used dozens of my pistols for target practice and plinking. Maybe I'm not using them correctly? Guess I ought to be using them for the purpose that they are supposedly designed for.

To make a long story short there are idiots out there who haven't the faintest idea what their talking about. Sheeple are like that - they parrot phrases that radical liberals teach them. Brain power is not their forte.
 
I'm surprised to hear about that kind of comments in an army unit. I mean, those guys should know how useful a knife can be.

I've heard all kinds of stupid anti-knife statements at college (I go to a school that is the leftist centre of the country), luckily in my workplace there are no knife issues (they actually hand out knives) and most of my other hobbies involve people who know their way around a knife and who will only comment on your EDC choice based on utilitarian concepts.

Some people just make comments without thinking. A few weeks ago, I invited some friends to spend a few days at my grandfather's mountain cabin. Lovely place, not a soul in sight (the nearest town has a whooping 500 inhabitants). People there carry a fixed blade openly all the time, as do I when I'm over there. You just need it for the daily chores.

I was in the kitchen, with two of my friends and a man who works for me (he takes care of the horses). One of my friends needed a knife to chop some onnions, and instead of just asking "Where are the knives?" he said "I know you only have knives for murdering (pointing at my knife), can you get me one to chop onnions?". I was a bit offended, but Don Juan (my employee) took real offense. He couldn't believe that a boy that had been scared by a donkey the day before was calling him a murderer, you just don't go around accusing mountain men of been criminals. I was very embarrased and mildly pissed off, since Don Juan is an outstanding man who didn't deserve that kind of labelling.
 
Being a chef I own about 50 knives,some are in my kitchen,others in my knife case. As a instructor for my trade, I often must carry kives in this case in my car.

Some people have asked me about it being moraly right???

Going back to your initial thread; it never ceases to amaze me how stupid some people can be at times.
 
I live in Minnesota where you can wait three weeks (I think) and carry a concealed handgun, but everbody freaks out when you pull out a small folder to open a box. What the f***
 
tgw914 said:
I live in Minnesota where you can wait three weeks (I think) and carry a concealed handgun, but everbody freaks out when you pull out a small folder to open a box. What the f***
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What part? I grew up in N.Minn, where folks vote for Kerry, AND carry knives. Rather odd combination, don't you think? Of course, Mondale only carried one state :-)
 
Back when I was in court reporting school many years ago, I was using the tiny scissors on my Victorinox SAK Classic to trim a line of steno paper so I could match up and connect two pads together with tape. An obnoxious 30-something female fellow student noticed and said, "I'll have you know you're carrying a deadly weapon!" I just shook my head, but I won't write what I was thinking in reply.

The majority of people are quite stupid about knives...that's not a put-down, it's a simple fact. That's because so many people find a reason to be scared of almost anything, regardless if it's really harmful or not. Even a lot of martial artists I've met (I train as well) tend to view knives as only killing instruments, and when they see you using one in a utilitarian, low-key manner, will nervously/sneeringly joke, "Who are you gonna kill with that thing?" I suppose the fear of blades is something that's been instilled deeply. I don't understand it, because i remember up into the 1970s it wasn't uncommon to find men and boys carrying pocketknives and knowing what those tools were meant for. Something happened to foster an increasingly wussy-fied mentality since about the '80s or so regarding folders.
Jim
 
This is the same mindset that you see in anti-gun/gun control fanatics. I have heard the statement "guns are good for nothing but to kill someone" many times.
 
Its this kind of thinking that leads to schools banning dodgeball and having kids jump rope without a rope so they won't have hurt feelings! What a load!!!

I remember when I worked as an armed courier for an armored company, there were many people there who routinely carried firearms and talked about them ad infinitum but would freak out with the introduction of a Spyderco Delica!

Sincerely,
Anthony
 
I can remember the exact point in time that knives became antithetical to my society. the year was 1982, and I was a ninth grader in a small, norther Minnesota school. Up until this point, it was very common for young men to carry about on their person a small/medium pocket knife. The single bladed, wood handled with brass bolster buck knives were very popular, as were a variety of SAKs. At no time did anyone take exception to this practice.

This particular year, we had a new vice principal. A decidedly liberal individual who was shrouded in scandal. Rumor had it that she had to leave her big city (Minneapolis) HS administration job because she had an affair with a married teacher. [incidentally, she eventually managed to break up two marriages in our small town, where divorce was still considered a grave exception to the rule]

Back to the point... While in the office with one of my friends to use the phone, one of the office ladies asked my friend if she could borrow his knife to cut some heavy tape. When my friend handed her his SAK, the vise principal about had a cow. She started screaming "Security! Security!" Of course, there was no security, but a 911 call brought the city police rolling in about 30 minutes later. By then, my friend, myself, 2 teachers, and about 15 other "criminals" were standing by waiting to be incarcerated on illicit weapons charges. We were never charged, but I never did get that Buck Knife back, and the practice of carrying knives to school came to a screeching halt.

I would venture that there is not a public school in the country today that would admit to letting students (or teachers for that matter) freely carry knives on school grounds.
 
I see many folks have had experience with knife prejudice and wonder
were it comes from. It really is no different from fire arm prejudice.

There is a whole class of folks who look at the world in a very different light
than what "knifeknuts" do. The libs failed at "gun control" but they have a
open field to engage in knife prejudice.

What I am more surprised at is the lack of the 2nd amendment in these
discussions. It does say "keep and bare arms" not neccessarily firearms.

Just a thought.
 
I am not a racist. But I have had a couple of different people ask me if I was racist, accusingly. I denied the charge, of course. In later conversations with them, it became crystal clear to me that, in fact, THEY were the racists. Ever after, I have noticed that the Social Avenger who makes the insulting charge against you, is secretly themself, guilty of what they acuse you of. This is called projection. (For the record, the first one was a self-hating, pot-smoking minority who thought all his self made troubles would vanish if he could only, somehow, turn white. The other was a 70 y.o. self-appointed busybody landlady-turned-grandmother-to-black kids who missed her calling when the STASI went belly up :p ) Whoooo...

Nowadays, whenever I am discretely using a quality knife for some every day task, like food prep in my own kitchen, or opening a box at work, and another Social Avenger accosts me with their outlandish charge(who are you going to kill with that?!), I just calmly deny it, and then take a good look at them. Because I now know that it is actually the accuser that is projecting their own murderous tendencies onto me. And I intend to steer clear of them.

It's the same when liberals complain about gun ownership leading to murder.
 
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