Sheeple!

I am about to board a flight....armed as a federal LEO. I have already made all notifications and am anticipating pre-boarding when I heard my named called. I was summoned by TSA for secondary searching. I go to their table and they ask for my rucksack. As I put it on the table, I ask them what they are looking for. Surprised that I would talk directly to them, she says "prohibited items".

I tell her that she will find plenty of those in there and place my LEO paperwork on the table in front of her. I have zero doubt that she had never seen that paperwork, or knew what it was. She conducts her search and finds a Busse AD, and extra magazines. When I point out to her that I am an armed passenger on the flight, she says well you cannot bring aboard the knife. It is a "prohibited item". I ask her if Glock pistols are prohibited and she curiously looks at me and says "yes, but you can carry that because of your occupation". I give her my most aggressive whisper, saying I am carrying a Glock pistol and my knife stays with me. After minutes of private meetings with her associates, I was alowed to proceed.
 
Idaho Jarhead said:
I have been seeing an awful lot of these threads lately. I'm not judging you in any way, but I can't say that I recall ever whipping out a knife to open up a blister pack in front of the cashiers. I at least wait until I get in the parking lot.

Knives, guns, booze, and women...a little common sense goes a long way.
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I have been seeing an awful lot of these responses to threads like this lately. I'm not judging you in any way, but this is part of the problem. It is not "common" sense to keep a knife, especially a small one, hidden. Common sense has been replaced by fear mongering and a propaganda campaign that has even knife (and gun) owners genuinely thinking that they are doing something wrong. You don't go around hiding things (when it's not illegal to have them seen) unless you are ashamed of them.

Instead, it would make more sense (if legal) to carry openly to simply reverse the trend, and get people to realize that carrying knives (and guns) is actually the normal, common sense thing, not the other way around.

The guy uses a tiny knife to open a cheap toy, and the woman says people are in fear? The people who are afraid are the ones not using common sense, not the guy with the knife.
 
I guess it depends on where you are. In the small rural towns in South Carolina a lot of people carry knives, especially during deer season. I was in Walmart in Manning, SC last week and one of the women that worked there was helping me look for a CD. She was looking in some boxes that contained CD's that had not been put on the shelves yet. She came to one of the boxes that had not been opened and asked if I would take my knife and open it. I was carrying my Rat Trap folder so it was not in plain sight. I guess she just assumed that I carried a knife. Life is so much different in these little SC towns, compared to Atlanta, where I spent 25 years.
 
You should have replied, "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." :p
 
Cpl Punishment said:
I have been seeing an awful lot of these responses to threads like this lately. I'm not judging you in any way, but this is part of the problem. It is not "common" sense to keep a knife, especially a small one, hidden. Common sense has been replaced by fear mongering and a propaganda campaign that has even knife (and gun) owners genuinely thinking that they are doing something wrong. You don't go around hiding things (when it's not illegal to have them seen) unless you are ashamed of them.

Instead, it would make more sense (if legal) to carry openly to simply reverse the trend, and get people to realize that carrying knives (and guns) is actually the normal, common sense thing, not the other way around.

The guy uses a tiny knife to open a cheap toy, and the woman says people are in fear? The people who are afraid are the ones not using common sense, not the guy with the knife.
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Exactly.:thumbup:
I get annoyed at the mall ninjas flipping their knives open and closed repeatedly for no good reason, but we should not stop using our knives as sensible tools.
When we HIDE the use of knives as tools, the image of them as weapons for murderes only continues to get reinforced.
 
People suck screw um all just keep your stuff out of sight until you need it and then those same people who look at you so strange for useing a tool to open a toy will blubber all over you when you protect there weak unprotected asses
 
Sad thing is alot those same weak arss people will be the first in line to vote when new gun/knife regulation laws are introduced.
 
Hello everyone. First, I'll introduce myself since I don't think I've posted in this forum before. While I don't own any Busses, I do own a few Scrap Yard and Swamp Rat knives. I'm a college student from a city about 40 minutes east of San Francisco. The college I go to is on the central coast of California. Basically, I am surrounded by these sheeple. I mentioned this on the Scrap Yard forum, but my girlfriend and her family really don't like knives too much. My girlfriend, in fact, would rather that I don't carry one. She deals with it though. The funny thing is that her family, as well as my own to a certain extent, will kinda make fun of me for carrying a knife all the time. This is funny because whenever they need something cut open, like a box or those previously mentioned zip ties, they readily ask me for a knife unless there is a pair of scissors close by. As far as other people, I've had a job at a machine shop and another warehouse job in the past and surprisingly to me, I've gotten comments from guys about the knives that I carry and use mostly for opening boxes. One comment had to do with using a knife in a fight. Another was by my boss who said "we know not to mess with you." This surprised me because it seemed as though it was perfectly fine to carry box cutters/utility knives, but my (less sharp) folding knives were close to inappropriate. This mentality would not surprise me in an office, but in a warehouse where packages are opened all day?! In my opinion, this country, especially California, is becoming a land of a bunch of a bunch of babies.
 
HeadKicker said:
I am about to board a flight....armed as a federal LEO. I have already made all notifications and am anticipating pre-boarding when I heard my named called. I was summoned by TSA for secondary searching. I go to their table and they ask for my rucksack. As I put it on the table, I ask them what they are looking for. Surprised that I would talk directly to them, she says "prohibited items".

I tell her that she will find plenty of those in there and place my LEO paperwork on the table in front of her. I have zero doubt that she had never seen that paperwork, or knew what it was. She conducts her search and finds a Busse AD, and extra magazines. When I point out to her that I am an armed passenger on the flight, she says well you cannot bring aboard the knife. It is a "prohibited item". I ask her if Glock pistols are prohibited and she curiously looks at me and says "yes, but you can carry that because of your occupation". I give her my most aggressive whisper, saying I am carrying a Glock pistol and my knife stays with me. After minutes of private meetings with her associates, I was alowed to proceed.
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Ha, that is funny. I don't know what agency you work for (I work for one too), but I have taken multitools and folders with pocket clips aboard openly and never have been challenged. I was once challenged by a Chicago police officer though for carrying a firearm onboard while on vacation. A quick call to her supervisor (by her) and I was quickly on my way.
 
Not to long ago in my fathers generation if you wanted meat you either walked outside and slaughtered something or traded or bought some from a local butcher or farmer. Now you go to the store and by meat wrapped in plastic and the same people that by that plastic meat say people should not hunt and guns are of no need. When I grew up your right of passage was your first pocket knife and then your first gun. What my point is that in the last 100 years we have advanced so much with technology and man's so called evolution and technology has snowballed so quickly that we have forgot what made this country great to begin with. only criminals carry guns and knives and meat is not from animals they grow it at the meat farm. Like I said it used to be everyone carried a knife and you where odd if you did not. In this yuppie filled world we live in now you are the weird O if you carry a knife or gun. Well I guess I am a weirdo. My kids when they come of age get a knife and are taught to shoot and when one of them questions my out dated way of thinking about hunting and my choices I drive them down to a slaughter house and show them the face behind the plastic wrapped meat. Or I show them an article where some one was assaulted raped or killed that maybe could have protected themselves or there loved ones if they where a little better prepared. There are over 1.5 million violent
crimes in this country every year and luck favors the prepared not someone walking around with there d--k in there hand. But don't ask me I am a weirdo how carries knives and guns. :D
 
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Ha, that is funny. I don't know what agency you work for (I work for one too), but I have taken multitools and folders with pocket clips aboard openly and never have been challenged. I was once challenged by a Chicago police officer though for carrying a firearm onboard while on vacation. A quick call to her supervisor (by her) and I was quickly on my way.
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Was she hot?

I like it when they allow you to fly armed but want you to dump out your water bottle. Shrewd and adept they are.
 
Guns and knives, like screw drivers, claw hammers, and pry bars are just tools. Any one of them could become a weapon.

Where I live, illegal aliens ("IA"s) are fond of using rocks as weapons. I used to laugh at this until a buddy of mine almost had his head taken off by an IA who snuck up behind him and threw a rock at him as he was surveilling the wall at the border one evening. That is, he threw a rock the size of a cantaloupe at the back of my buddy's head. So do we outlaw rocks too now?

When I worked for a police dept. way back when, the citizenry did not like the fact that we carried shotguns. Huh??? That's right. I never needed to use one, but my response was always, "Well, don't worry about it too much. You'll be thanking me someday if I am ever in the position where I need to use it to save your life." They usually toned it down after that, but I am sure that many departments face similar attitudes from those they are sworn to protect.

In my opinion, the OP did nothing wrong. If we all put away our guns and knives, then tomorrow, it will be scissors and the day after, it will be nail clippers. IMO, carry more often, not less. The more people see others with a small knife being carried openly, the less they will have to fear. They may even get to the point where they say to themselves, "He has a knife. No big deal really. I see people carrying those all the time and they are not criminals. Why should I be afraid now?" Wouldn't that be something?

People who live in fear of something do so because they don't know better. A little information and a friendly attitude (rather than a cynical response) will go a long way in changing people's attitudes.
 
you know what really gets me? I'm a freakin active duty Marine, infantry at that. And I get other Marines who look at me like I'm crazy for carrying a knife(or 2, or 3) I don't get it, I think about it, and I don't know how I would get by without a knife on me. If God came down and said you have to pick 1 item, all the rest will be taken from you, I'd pick a knife. ....... people are stupid, and I hate most of them.
 
JParanee said:
Not to long ago in my fathers generation if you wanted meat you either walked outside and slaughtered something or traded or bought some from a local butcher or farmer. Now you go to the store and by meat wrapped in plastic and the same people that by that plastic meat say people should not hunt and guns are of no need. When I grew up your right of passage was your first pocket knife and then your first gun. What my point is that in the last 100 years we have advanced so much with technology and man's so called evolution and technology has snowballed so quickly that we have forgot what made this country great to begin with. only criminals carry guns and knives and meat is not from animals they grow it at the meat farm. Like I said it used to be everyone carried a knife and you where odd if you did not. In this yuppie filled world we live in now you are the weird O if you carry a knife or gun. Well I guess I am a weirdo. My kids when they come of age get a knife and are taught to shoot and when one of them questions my out dated way of thinking about hunting and my choices I drive them down to a slaughter house and show them the face behind the plastic wrapped meat. Or I show them an article where some one was assaulted raped or killed that maybe could have protected themselves or there loved ones if they where a little better prepared. There are over 1.5 million violent
crimes in this country every year and luck favors the prepared not someone walking around with there d--k in there hand. But don't ask me I am a weirdo how carries knives and guns. :D
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You said it perfectly bro. I grew up in a small town in North Western Ontario isolated as ever where the men were men and unfortunately so were half the women. But in my high school we were actually incouraged to bring guns to school "they had to be checked in at the VP office" but during our lunch break a group of teachers would take students down to the gun range for trap and target shooting. It was the best!!! It gave kids something to do and peaked interest. Kids who grow up hunting, fishing, and trapping dont grow up to mug little old ladies. I'm very proud to say that for my oldest sons 12th birhtday I got him his very first knife " Knives of Alaska Yukon Belt Knife". In the spring he's going for his Hunter Safety Core training. So just like you, I'm a weirdo aswell, and proud of it. :D:D:D
 
Crap....

If I get on a train with I bicycle, or just ride one down the street I have people say worse things than that.

There are a lot of ignorant people out there.... good thing that having to hear W. speak for the last eight years has been good practice in ignoring the ignorant. :thumbup:

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