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hkbladelawhk

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I'm so sick and tired of people labeling knives as deadly weapons/weapons. Why can't people see that knives are designed as a primary to CUT...whether you make a knife a weapon, is your decision...

Anyone else tired of people hassling you because you carry a fixed blade or something "bigger than your palm"?
 
Nah, no one tells me anything when I have my Chris Reeve Shadow III fixed blade or my Spyderco Manix hanging off my belt...they are too scared to say anything:D.

I don't want to convince anyone that my knives are tools and wouldn't be in anyway used for the destruction of life or limb. If they are intimidated, I will just get out of their space. If I was ever asked a question about my knives it went like "Why do you carry a knife?". My answer, "Because I've aways carried one and it's nice to have one when you need one".
 
hkbladelawhk said:
I'm so sick and tired of people labeling knives as deadly weapons/weapons. Why can't people see that knives are designed as a primary to CUT...whether you make a knife a weapon, is your decision...

Anyone else tired of people hassling you because you carry a fixed blade or something "bigger than your palm"?
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What nonsense, bigger than the palm of your hand!!!!!!!!!
The same thing is said here in Holland ( by sheeples ), though the law on carrying folders is friendly compared to surrounding countrys.

Cor
 
In Holland you are allowed to carry a folder when the total length ( blade and
handle) is under 28 cm ( 11 inches ). Automatic knives with a blade lenght
more than 9 cm ( 3.5 inches ) or with a wide less than 14 mm ( 0.6 inch ) are
prohibited. All other knives are considered as weapons when carried in public.
The law is very strict and clear in the description on this matter.
 
You can use a pistol as a paper-weight but it's still a pistol....

I look at knives as both tools AND weapons.
Humans have been using knives to cut and slice other humans for as long as knives have existed.

I work at a hospital, and if I have a patient who happens to also have a fixed-blade hanging on his belt, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will consider that fixed-blade to be a weapon first and foremost.
The patient might just be a hunter who fell from his tree-stand....or the patient might be a psychotic schizo who has not taken his meds in several weeks....you never know.

HOWEVER.....
I do not condone banning knives of any type (or firearms of any type).
It has been demonstrated time and time again that only law-abiding people obey such bans while criminals ignore them, or worse, take advantage of them.
The result is an armed criminal element and a disarmed law-abiding populance.

Allen.
 
You are right to classify the ppl around you but a screw driver is a screw driver and keeps being it even used as a weapon.

There is a difference between what an object is made for and what it is used for. Over time some tools may turn into weapons because anybody would use it that way and vice versa.

A knife is a knife is a tool.

Looking at how often a type of knife is used as a weapon, a chefs knife is much more a weapon than any switchblade.

I hope i get it right but german laws were clarified that a knife has to have a sharpened spine starting from the tip, to be a weapon. otherwise it is a tool, exept it is a switchblade or balisong.

Could someone seriously consider a SAK a weapon?
 
hkbladelawhk said:
I'm so sick and tired of people labeling knives as deadly weapons/weapons. Why can't people see that knives are designed as a primary to CUT...whether you make a knife a weapon, is your decision...

Anyone else tired of people hassling you because you carry a fixed blade or something "bigger than your palm"?
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See: www.USKTA.org
 
Hey Guys...

I as well think of knives as both weapons and just simply knives...

There are many knives that can be used for a variety of duty,, whether they are for cutting rope, mail, outdoors, Self Defence or what have you,, then there are knives that are purely weapons, made and used for only one purpose and that is self defence...

These self defence knives are really only good at doing one thing and one thing only..

I as well am bothered by people calling ordinary knives "weapons".. To paint all knives with such a wide brush is ignorant and Sheeple-ish.. Those same people have drawers full of knives in their house, however they don't look at their kitchen butcher knives as weapons, which I may add is the number one knife used in stabbings around the world, the ordinary kitchen butcher knife.

This is a point I bring up to them every time someone goes off on my about the knives I carry...

It usually shuts them the Hell Up!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
Normark said:
This is a point I bring up to them every time someone goes off on my about the knives I carry...

It usually shuts them the Hell Up!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
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Their fear is : "why do you carry a knife on you, while I dont, and do not see a need for it, so you must be up to something".
 
They would only carry a knife as a weapon so they expect you to do the same.
 
Hey Guys...

Cornie..

Exactly...

Tell this to the poor bastard, hanging upside down in his burning pickup truck,trapped by his seatbelt. And my brother in law cutting him out to safety with the pocket knife I gave him for Christmas the year before!!

No one else standing there had not even a SAK on them, and would have watched him burn to death..

My brother in law saved more than one person that day...

The guy in the truck, and the dozen or so by standers from having to watch someone helplessly burn to death...

No need for a knife ??

Indeed!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
Normark said:
Hey Guys...

Cornie..

Exactly...

Tell this to the poor bastard, hanging upside down in his burning pickup truck,trapped by his seatbelt. And my brother in law cutting him out to safety with the pocket knife I gave him for Christmas the year before!!

No one else standing there had not even a SAK on them, and would have watched him burn to death..

My brother in law saved more than one person that day...

The guy in the truck, and the dozen or so by standers from having to watch someone helplessly burn to death...

No need for a knife ??

Indeed!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
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Yes man, your are right!
That's why I'm never without a knife.:thumbup:
 
Part of the problem is knife manufacturers that give their knives non-utilitarian names (and shapes), when catering to the mall-ninja market.
 
I've been thinking about this issue a lot lately. It's time to stop wringing our hands and do something about it! I just became a lifetime member of the NRA and I'm looking for other ways to support our rights. I forsee a cold wind blowing in our direction, and possibly sooner than we imagine. Does anyone have any suggestions? I want to DO something to help ensure the Gestapo doesn't start coming around and arrest us for carrying nail clippers. Simply getting agitated over the situation in the UK and the worsening situation here accomplishes nothing.
 
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