Letter to the Editor

1Tsar said:
Much of our population is becoming ignorant wimps wrapped around pidily lives balanced on credit cards, wasting time on major sports as it is better to watch than do, or so they believe.
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There it is again. They think it's sport to sit in front of a TV set. Don't know how to do for themselves.

StretchNM said:
Stretch to the rescue! With a comment like "You should be carrying one of these". He replies "People with knives like that scare me". I said "Do I scare you, Max?" and he says "Naw. Just, you know, people that carry knives on their hip". hmmmm Interesting. THis guy is huge and relatively conservative in social thought. I've known him for quite some time.
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He knows it's not the knife and he knows you, so you're not really the people who scare him -- but the same knife in a stranger's hand would? He's not thinking, he's rolling with the popular wisdom instead of working it out for himself. Working in a feed store, a short fixed blade is exactly what he needs.
 
The media draws fear from whatever it possibly can...there is a terrorist, knife wielding criminal, shot gun burgler, rapist, child molester around every corner these days. Fear is being fed into the public from every direction and this has an impact on the public. Safety is much more important than freedom these days. Get used to it, because it will get much worse in the years to come =(
 
Same with us in New Mexico. You can even carry a firearm on your hip, as long as it's not concealed. I go shopping or anywhere I want wearing a Northstar, any other Bark River, a Nimravus, a RAT, or anything else.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
................ Working in a feed store, a short fixed blade is exactly what he needs.
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That's what I told him, showing him the Northstar. When he balked, I asked him if he saw the knife I was wearing last time I came in (BRKT mini-Skinner). He said he didn't, but I told him that's what he needed. He found his knife, a small Case slipjoint - perfectly fine for a feed store, but better would be a fixed blade in that line of work.
 
Sometimes people are a bit afraid of my knife, but once I'm through cutting whatever they needed cut, they suddenly get over it.
 
Thalestin said:
The media draws fear from whatever it possibly can...there is a terrorist, knife wielding criminal, shot gun burgler, rapist, child molester around every corner these days. Fear is being fed into the public from every direction and this has an impact on the public. Safety is much more important than freedom these days. Get used to it, because it will get much worse in the years to come =(
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Yes, but it's the wrong impact. I always live in fear: we call it heightened awareness. I lived most of my life in New York City. I walk at night. My reaction to fear is to prepare for trouble, not to retreat into a hole in my mind.

Self-reliance again. You're right. The fear they feed them isn't fear of a dangerous world, it's fear of confronting danger themselves. Perople are being taught they can't handle it, and they are willing to believe this.
 
That's why I like to carry an SOP or Mini SOP, the sheeple can't figure out what it is, and by the time they realize that it has an edge on it I have it back in my pocket.

The original poster might look into one, I think I know a guy who could find one for you if you really need one.

Thanks for the letter, I may send it into my favorite paper also.
 
1. What's an SOP?

2. The original poster can make more gadgets the sheeple couldn't figure out than just about any other knifemaker around these days. :D
 
I'd be more inclined to get behind such sentiments if I'd actually experienced them in my life. I've lived in big cities in California most of my life, carried knives since I was a kid, and have never had any negative reaction from teh sh33ple. I've found that nobody will take offense when you use the right tool for a job. Maybe I'm just lucky.

The cold hard reality is that the rest of the world doesn't share our collective knife fetish. As knife nuts, we're always going to be a subculture. We should simply accept it. It's one thing to be a knife enthusiast. It's another to be a thin skinned knife enthusiast.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
1. What's an SOP?

2. The original poster can make more gadgets the sheeple couldn't figure out than just about any other knifemaker around these days. :D
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:D:thumbup::cool::D:thumbup::cool::eek::foot:

Son of a Prything

I think maybe someone missed the humor in what I posted.


BTW anyone notice the UFO on ebay, it looks like it may have gone back out of the atmosphere.


nate- Atwoodite#78
 
Midwest Ninja said:
Sometimes people are a bit afraid of my knife, but once I'm through cutting whatever they needed cut, they suddenly get over it.
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This is exactly what I've found to be true. When I began carrying my Kershaw titanium-handled Random Leek, Fenix P2D flashlight and Colibri butane torch lighter my friends and girlfriend even laughed at me for being a nerd. Now, I dress fairly fashionably and my "tools" don't really fit my image, but whenever they "need a light" or say "I can't see" or ask "hey, do you have that knife on you?" who's the one with the right tool for the job? ME...

Also, I'm in total agreement with the whole restaurant thing. I'll whip out my knife in any circumstance whether it was to cut through a loaf of bread at Bravo or cut my steak at Longhorn. It doesn't matter, and in fact I love seeing the faces of people light up and I can't wait for someone to eventually get the nerve enough to say something. I will inform them that when the dirt-bag who comes in one day to Panera Bread to rob the place, I might be the only one with the tool to provide their safety, and if not, at least I could say I did something about it and not just stand there like the rest of the blokes who frolic in their world (which we now call America) of false security.

Bravo Pete for your article and willingness to do something about it. God help this country when the politicians ban guns and knives. I just hope I'm not around to see it...
 
See now, I like that. "Here ma'am, please take this cheap piece of serrated stainless away, I'll just use this!" (Bravo-1) ((( :D )))

I learned a few years ago though, even with super steels like S30V and D2, don;t cut all the way through to the porcelen....it WILL flatten the edge :D
 
StretchNM said:
... don;t cut all the way through to the porcelen....it WILL flatten the edge :D
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That's why the cheap steak knives they give you have serrations up front. The plate flattens the peaks, but the dips between them are still sharp enough to slice the steak.
 
E B,

I am sorry for the jokes but I do appreciate the tools that Mr Atwood makes, and am fortunate to own a couple of them.

I have a hard time understanding how this phobia has spread so completely throughout the US. It seems like a fear of self reliance is the best explanation. As a two inch bladed folder hardly seems to pose a big threat to public safety. I have noticed that Wally World has outfitted it's employees with box cutters in a nifty little pocket clipped carrier. The guy in the sporting goods department at the one nearest me has ditched it in favor of a folding pocket knife.

Considering that a screwdriver or kitchen knife can do a whole lot more damage to internal organs than most pocket knives that seem to draw comments, it seems a lot more like a learned response than a personal point of view when someone displays their fear of a pocket knife.
 
I use my knives regularly in public. Most of the time, the smallest blade I carry is about 4 inches. I get a few negative comments now and then. I refuse to use a steak house knife as it tears the meat. I'm not a savage, and I use the right tool for the job! The concerns of others about my choice of tools is irrelevent.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
That's why the cheap steak knives they give you have serrations up front. The plate flattens the peaks, but the dips between them are still sharp enough to slice the steak.
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Esav,

LOL, you sound like a commercial salesman for Cutco with their Double-D Edge... :D
 
Along the same lines, I was eating in a nice restuarant a few weeks ago, when I dropped my napkin onto the floor. As I reached down to pick it up, my coat opened a bit and a young, well dressed, well spoken professional looking woman noticed my shoulder holster with the 9MM SIG P 239 in it. She stood, looked at me with a glare, and said "how dare you carry something like that in here!"

I just smiled, looked at her, and answered, "Ma'am, I carry that to protect people like you who aren't smart enough, or courageous enough to protect themselves. Now sit back down and enjoy your meal. You and your family are safe as long as I'm here."

End of conversation! :D
 
Ben Dover said:
Along the same lines, I was eating in a nice restuarant a few weeks ago, when I dropped my napkin onto the floor. As I reached down to pick it up, my coat opened a bit and a young, well dressed, well spoken professional looking woman noticed my shoulder holster with the 9MM SIG P 239 in it. She stood, looked at me with a glare, and said "how dare you carry something like that in here!"

I just smiled, looked at her, and answered, "Ma'am, I carry that to protect people like you who aren't smart enough, or courageous enough to protect themselves. Now sit back down and enjoy your meal. You and your family are safe as long as I'm here."

End of conversation! :D
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Priceless :D
 
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