Live the big blades at home

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mario civalleri

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..It happens that two weeks ago I'm been invited, together with some member of the national team,to the local prison to give a seminar about our sport, powerlifting. Sincerely, it was the first time in my life I was going into a jail, and as this is a medium-high security prison, the atmosphere was prettly heavy. I started thinking how many times I risk my freedom taking into my pockets big blades..and now I think that as I'm not a LEO and no more a Military, I'll live my big blades at home: a Rookie, a Dragonfly and even a Worker can do the most of any work, and would never put my freedom in danger.....

EX ALTO FULGOR
 
If you could be put into a prison merely for carrying a Spyderco Military in your pocket, I must respectfully submit that you live in the wrong place! How is any society well served by putting a citizen with no criminal record in prison merely for carrying a tool that the state has decided is "too large?" That's as bad as some of the US's mandatory sentencing rules for drug possession.

Gregg
 
My CCW covers knives as well as handguns. I don't carry a knife as a defensive weapon, I'm not trained that way, but I do carry "large knives", usually a StarMate.
 
If you carry your "big blades" purely as weapons to look for trouble, by all means leave them at home. Also, if carrying a 4 inch bladed folder is illegal. But if you think that just carrying a bigger folder (under legal limit) will automatically get you into trouble and prison, then you should reconsider. The fact that you're worried when carrying a bigger folder can also make you much more careful when thinking about using it for 'intersocial attitude adjustment'.

Wouter

[This message has been edited by Mr Blonde (edited 10-21-2000).]
 
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