regardless of laws, are you adapting your choice of EDC to public opinion

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I hope I formulated that correctly, I'm Dutch :D

What I meant was do you choose your EDC with non knife people in mind? In the Netherlands the law allows me to carry a non automatic folder (and non double edged) with a total maximum length of 11 inches.

Meaning in theory that I could whip out a ZT0200 on the bus and clean my fingernails.

Yet I'd never feel comfortable doing that. Truth be told the only blades I feel comfortable taking out of my pocket are SAKs. That doesn't mean that's all I carry though..;)

How about you guys? Are your carrying habits deliberately sheeple friendly?
 
If I'm in the suburbs or a rural area, I feel comfortable taking out a folder with the blade under 3 1/2 I guess. If I'm in NYC for any reason, I wouldn't feel comfortable pulling out a nail clipper.
 
Sure thing. I tailor a lot of my behaviour to the culturally appropriate options.

I will curse in a bar, but not a courtroom. I wear jeans around the house, but a suit to a boardroom. And I wear a modern folder clipped to my jeans pocket most of the time, but a small folder with a nail nick and wood scales in contexts where larger or more utilitarian knives are unusual. And, unfortunately, no knife at all on an airplane. That's the one that really gets my goat.
 
Sure do. In order to alleviate the irrational and uninformed questions by the sheeple here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I usually only carry some sort of multitool. Leatherman Skeletool, Juice, or a SAK, for example. It swear some of these people really are living in the matrix.
 
Nope. I follow the laws not misinformed and biased fellow citizens opinions and irrational feelings.
 
No. I carry what I carry and clean my nails etc. when ever I want to. I do not focus on others or their reaction. Although, I do live in the South Eastern United States and sheeple are relatively few in my daily life.
 
Somewhat. I've started carrying a Spyderco Air along with my usual ~3.5" choice. I'll use the Air if it seems like a larger knife might not sit well with the folks around.
 
I carry what I want to carry. I have always liked knives in the 3 in blade category so not too much of a problem. Don't worry about the PC bunch too much. If 3 in blade isn't enough there is always my CLH 357 mag. Don't necessarily look at knives as a self defense item unless its all I have.
 
Good question NetshadeX. I carry three different folders on a day to day basis. Two are big folders, while one is a small multi-blade folder. I carry the large ones because I have the capability to do so without it "weighing me down", and because I like to show them to my friends and to other knife people I might come across. But when it comes to using a knife for my day to day needs, the small folder is usually the one I use because it is really all I need, but where would the fun be in that I ask! So in a way I guess I am adapting my choice to what the general public would be comfortable with, but only because my normal knife needs require a small knife to get the job done.

I'm 57 and recently have become totally disabled. I find myself doing the things I do the way I want to do them and to hell with what other people think. Good, bad, or indifferent?, I don't know, but that is who I now am, or maybe who I have always been, but it has just come to the surface due to my medical condition. I say all of this because while I use my smaller knife most of the time, I will use a larger knife if it is handier to get to. I was in Walmart a few months ago and needed to cut a barcode off of a box so the cashier could ring it up. I have to use one of the electric carts to get around Walmart because I can only walk using a walker and it was easier to cut out the barcode. Anyway, one of the large knives I was carrying at that time was my ZT0600, and as soon as I removed it, flipped it open, cut the barcode, I heard the man and women behind me whisper to one another something about "knife", "huge", and "illegal". I just smiled, closed the blade, and slid my knife back into my pocket. Never even looked at them. I'm sure they would have shi# a brick had I removed the CS Tilite VI from my fanny pack to cut that barcode!!

Below is a pic of the knives I currently have in my pocket/fanny pouch today. The Tilite and Victorinox always ride in my fannypack, while the Fox Deimos is in my right front pocket, and is rotated with 4 others.

Edited to add;

When I started my post no one had posted. I read the other post's and wanted to just add that I live in the western part of NC and while not totally rural neither is it a large metropolitan area. A lot of folks around here pay no heed to whatever knife you remove from your person.

 
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Absolutely not. I carry what I like. A lot of perception is how a knife is displayed and used, less so the knife itself. So I may carry a large folder or fixed blade or otf or whatever, but I don't raise it over my head and yell "I am the power!" when I need to use it. If you are a responsible looking person and use your tools responsibly you won't have any problems.

The more we tone down and compromise to the scared soccer moms and nervous public at large, the more we will have to.
 
I carry multiple knives, when I need one in public I will pull out one of my smaller blades, not because I don't want offend people, I could care less what random people think of me, I just don't want to attract any attention/ get any crazy stares.
 
I live just outside Toronto Canada in Milton. I do not tailor my EDC to sheeple. I get hassled every day at work because of my legal carry. Just because it is not popular for people to wear their tools on their belts anymore does not make it illegal. The general public are purposefully misinformed. With that in mind, I also believe there is the right tool for the job at hand. If I need to clean my nails, I will use my mini-multi tool not the BK2 from my hip.

Cheers,

TBL
 
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Absolutely not. I carry what I like. A lot of perception is how a knife is displayed and used, less so the knife itself. So I may carry a large folder or fixed blade or otf or whatever, but I don't raise it over my head and yell "I am the power!" when I need to use it. If you are a responsible looking person and use your tools responsibly you won't have any problems.

The more we tone down and compromise to the scared soccer moms and nervous public at large, the more we will have to.
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you do that in manhattan and theyll throw your butt in the slammer. not worth the trouble
 
No. I carry what I prefer and usually carry a knife with a blade at/around 3.5 to 4 inches and have actually loaned my knife to a local cop when asked (why he didn't have a knife is beyond me). Of course I live in the Southern U.S. and don't get hassled over such things. If I lived in a less free area, I suppose I would learn the laws and adhere to them to prevent losing my knife to confiscation.
 
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I pretty much carry what I want to, but I'm pretty rural and nobody cares. About soccer moms, though... I'm a farmer and had a bumper sticker on the back of my previous truck that said

'I contribute to global worming'.

You wouldn't believe the soccer moms that would go off on me at a gas station or a parking lot. 'Why would anyone want to contribute to global warming???! I'd just smile and let them rant and rave til they ran out of breath (and a few of them, that took quite awhile), and then I'd point out the deficiency in their reading skills, and add that worms are actually highly regarded for the ability to sequester carbon.

Not a single one of them ever apologized for their rudeness. Soccer moms...:ambivalence:
 
My position: What an odd mindset to have that one would choose to not carry what is legal but what others might find acceptable.
 
Yeah I do. I always carry within the law, but usually have my super people friendly gec sheepfoot charlow with me in addition to anything else.
 
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