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"Imagine no knife laws,
it's easy if you try..."
None of my knives are ever carried for defense, they're carried as tools, as entertainments, and in recognition of my status as a tool-using animal. If, God forbid, I was faced with a situation of the gravest extreme, I'd certainly try to defend myself with my knife, because, even in my hands, it'd be more a more effective defensive tool than, say, my ballpoint pen.
It seems that many others here are of like mind, and this is devolving into the canonical "What have we got in our pocketses?" thread
I almost always have a large folder with me, and sometimes a smaller friend or two, the large ones lately rotating through: M2 Stryker, 710BT Axis Lock, Starmate, and Krait. Smaller ones include: BF Native, CF Cricket, pink Cricket, and small Sebenza. (Oh, and of course the ever-present Micra.)
If I could carry anything, my pool of pocket/belt accoutrement would likely expand to include (from time to time):
So, with a few exceptions, what I'd carry in a perfect world is actually a pretty good match to what I'm carrying now...
-- Carl
(...and, with a nod to Ewok for the phrasing...)
At the tone, I will now be a senior member.
Beep.
[This message has been edited by Carl Jacobsen (edited 27 September 1999).]
it's easy if you try..."
None of my knives are ever carried for defense, they're carried as tools, as entertainments, and in recognition of my status as a tool-using animal. If, God forbid, I was faced with a situation of the gravest extreme, I'd certainly try to defend myself with my knife, because, even in my hands, it'd be more a more effective defensive tool than, say, my ballpoint pen.
It seems that many others here are of like mind, and this is devolving into the canonical "What have we got in our pocketses?" thread
I almost always have a large folder with me, and sometimes a smaller friend or two, the large ones lately rotating through: M2 Stryker, 710BT Axis Lock, Starmate, and Krait. Smaller ones include: BF Native, CF Cricket, pink Cricket, and small Sebenza. (Oh, and of course the ever-present Micra.)
If I could carry anything, my pool of pocket/belt accoutrement would likely expand to include (from time to time):
- a BM3500 auto, because it's useful and fun, and because the safety and the gentle spring make it relatively less hazardous to the user than many other autos (there are quite a few out there that I wouldn't think of carrying in a pocket, even if I could -- much too likely to punch holes in me).
- a BM35S balisong, also because it's useful and fun. Though it has about the strongest lock you can imagine, it's much less quick to open, for me, than any half dozen folders (but hey, nobody ever said lawmakers were rational),
- my Busse Mean Street. Most people look at this and see some sort of stealthy black hideout killing machine, but I look at it and see a dandy 3.5" flat-ground utility blade (with a terrific handle), which I will never, ever, be able to break (1/4" steel, 3.5" full-tang fixed blade, you do the math...).
- a Rolling Lock Spyderco Bob Lum with beadblasted canvas micarta scales over dual steel liners -- oh wait, that one's from some other perfect world
So, with a few exceptions, what I'd carry in a perfect world is actually a pretty good match to what I'm carrying now...
-- Carl
(...and, with a nod to Ewok for the phrasing...)
At the tone, I will now be a senior member.
Beep.
[This message has been edited by Carl Jacobsen (edited 27 September 1999).]
