Should you be able to carry a knife on airplanes?

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"We've been emasculated and turned in to left wing dribbling sheep" This has nothing to do with politics, take it elsewhere. I remember going to pick my buddy up when he got home from Fort Leonard Wood in 1994 and I couldn't even get into the terminal with a Spydie Delica. The 20 years ago analogy you are using may be your opinion and or personal experience.
 
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I would argue that a plane is no different than a bus or a street or a restaurant or any other public place. I you are opposed to knives on a plane your logic would say that all knives are dangerous weapons, not tools, therefore we must enlist the government to save us from all the scary knives and outlaw them fully in society.
 
smasak said:
I would argue that a plane is no different than a bus or a street or a restaurant or any other public place. I you are opposed to knives on a plane your logic would say that all knives are dangerous weapons, not tools, therefore we must enlist the government to save us from all the scary knives and outlaw them fully in society.
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As Great Brittan has.
 
I'm so sorry for suggesting that we as humans be allowed to defend ourselves, when that's Obama's job.

And while I haven't studied the "victim mentality", I can't see how the example you showed has any bearing on the situation. Being in a closed, confined space in which you cannot escape and in which doing nothing means you may die is completely different than seeing a crime take place on the street. Corner an animal and it will bite back. Give it room to run, and it will most likely run. No different with humans.

And a crashed plane full of American patriots in a field in Pennsylvania seems to support that reality. If they'd have been treated as free Americans, they might still be alive.
 
A local story on a guy who walked into a bar and started shooting people without cause. An unarmed, retired steelworker aged 60 years jumped the shooter, disarmed him and pummeled him despite being shot in the arm. He was playing the poker machine one second and going after a shooter armed with multiple guns the next. Again, nothing to do with politics, give it a rest.
 
Brasso3 said:
If you want to stop another hijacking from ever happening, just issue everyone a KaBar as they board. TSA is dumb.
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I'm not even going to bother explaining why this is a bad idea. But I will mention alot of people with mental disorders board planes. They can't do a mental evaluation on everyone that boards a plane.

I do think people should be able to board with smaller/medium knives, and am glad armed TSA agends are on flights.

Brasso3 said:
We've been emasculated and turned in to left wing dribbling sheep.
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Brasso3 said:
I'm so sorry for suggesting that we as humans be allowed to defend ourselves, when that's Obama's job.
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Keep you political crap out of here, and take it to the appropriate forum please.
 
A. G. Russell said:
As Great Brittan has.
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Did you not realize this thread had great potential of getting political when you made it ?
I've noticed you seem to find a way to get your political point into many of your threads.
And why FOX ??? They have no say in this, and who cares what they say???

Email the executives that own the airlines, and not FOX. They are the ones trying to get this overturned.
 
I hate checking bags because of the charges and the wait times to retrieve your bags. That's why I would like to be able to carry my knives on my carry-on baggage.
 
I don't see any need for having a knife on an airplane. What I do see are added delays to already long lines, with those folks in uniform measuring small items...I guess I can appreciate the added entertainment of the guy in front of me arguing how the blade was incorrectly measured and whatnot.
 
I think a lot of people misunderstand that a knife in the hands of anyone besides a violent criminal is a tool. It cuts strings, opens envelopes, trims bread crust, opens packages and boxes and a million other uses. I have never used a knife as a weapon as I'm sure the majority of people here haven't either.

The rational of excluding knives from airplanes or other public places is thy they are weapons and are dangerous to the public. Nearly everything can be a weapon like a fork, pen, bottle of water, keys, fists... I could go on.
 
Styg said:
I do think carrying a small knife should be fine. But I also think that if they simply made it easier to "check" one without needing baggage and all those fees (A lot of people fly with just a carry on bag) than I would be happy with that to.
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My favorite suggestion of the bunch. Realistically I don't think I much need my knife on a plane- I suppose small ones are fine and I don't see much harm, but I still would like to be able to travel with a knife that I like to carry (like my Sebenza for example). I don't like having to check bags specifically for this purpose and run the risk of having them pilfered, my bag lost, or paying fees just to check a bag that I would otherwise carry on. I would not however have the slightest objection to having to carry it in a TSA locked case till I land, having it stored under lock and key in the cabin but inaccessible, or any other fair and rational way to get my EDC from location to location without all the hassle of checking bags.
 
Ken44 said:
Did you not realize this thread had great potential of getting political when you made it ?
I've noticed you seem to find a way to get your political point into many of your threads.
And why FOX ??? They have no say in this, and who cares what they say???

Email the executives that own the airlines, and not FOX. They are the ones trying to get this overturned.
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Well, Ken because the people at FOX will listen and they are a single group and there are too many air lines and they would not listen anyway. Fox because they are the only news fit to watch and I hate to see them judging the knife community as dangerous outcastes.

I am really sorry that you see a support of the Constitution as political.

I think that this thread has done all the good it is likely to do, I will drop out at this point.
 
Yes. Should some government bureaucrat be permitted to usurp authority we never gave him and tell us otherwise? NO!


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We have a political forum for a reason. This thread is more a call to action than knife discussion. Mr. Russell no longer wants to participate in his own thread so that sounds like a perfect curtain call to me.
 
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