Tactical knife? Why, no, it's a Sport Utility!

wutitiz said:
Several people posted to say that they do not see a need for 'SUK' because they already don't refer to knives as 'tactical.' You are missing the point. It is not about people like you. It's about the many who do use the term, especially people in the knife industry.

For those who say it's caving in to political correctness, it is exactly the opposite. It is a tactical move in the war against political correctness.

And finally for those who say it's just too late for a rebranding, you are really the ones who are caving. Writer/radio host/gun-rights advocate Tom Gresham talks about how he has adopted a 'no shrug' policy for 2008. So often we see rights being trampled, idiocy running amok, etc., and we just shrug our shoulders and say "that's just the way it is." Tom G. says we need to stop that.

Elkins45 has come up with an excellent suggestion with his 'sport utility knife' catchphrase. It's already familiar. (and BTW those who point out that enviros have tried to attack SUV''s--that true, but they have had little to no success). It's pretty descriptive, since so-called tactical knives are often used outdoors, and they have general utility. And finally, there is the abbreviation of SUK, which is kind of funny. I don't see the media launching a campaign to ban the SUK, just on the grounds that too many people would be laughing at them.
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You can call a knife any name you want, but I'll bet a surprisingly high percentage of people interested in knives are not politically active and until more of "us" get active in politics we will still be headed down the road talready aken by countries like England. A group of doctors over there want to get rid of pointy kitchen knives.
 
Sport Utility Knife will probably prove a much better advertising catchphrase than Tactical Knife for certain knives in our goofy society. Personally, I carry and use cutting tools -multiple knives, saws, secateurs, loppers etc. Everything has its use as a cutting implement. I don't carry "weapons"...I just have this weird attitude that makes me think that if I am attacked or threatened I should utilise anything within my reach and ability to resist-Therefore I always prepared to instantaneously convert a rock, a pencil, one of my many cutting tools or a firearm into a weapon.
 
Personally, I think it's retarded to buy a knife for the primary purpose of self-defense/killing. I own a Manix, Rukus, M16, Cara Cara, and I don't consider any of them to be "tactical". I carry one or more of them every day, but if I have to defend myself it's my guns or my sap I'm going for first, and then probably my bare hands.
 
Horn Dog, the problem with 'pocket knife' is that it's too broad. There is a need for a label, especially for sellers, for what we now call 'tactical knives.' It's needed so that sellers can write ads, and customers can do searches.

The label we are currently stuck with is tactical, which is dumb and potentially a political albatross. I urge everyone--from now on, don't say or write 'tactical knife.' Instead write 'SUK.'
 
Well, ok, if it will make you feel better. Sport Utility Knife. My SERE is a SUK. I feel good about it. At least until SHTF day. :D
 
Knife, General Purpose.
Knife, Special Purpose
Knife, Multi Purpose
Oh, I get it!
It's really the word knife, that should be dropped altogather.
No disrespect to SUK; but if its all the same to you, I would prefer disclosing that I carry a pocket "Incisor" instead.
 
This is exactly the reason we are in the situation we are in. I dont see how pussifying anything will help when the people in question are the ones with the issues. Not us.
Comes a time when you got to say enough with the BS.
 
MP510: 'Assault weapon' just wasn't used by gun mfgs. 'Assault rifle' was used, but is fairly well defined. 'Assault weapon' was coined by anti-gun activist Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center in a well known memo in which he detailed how gun banners could take advantage of public confusion to ban a wide range of guns.

I remember hearing several debates in which gun ban advocates were challenged over the 'assault weapon' terminology. The only example they could ever produce of the gun industry using 'assault weapon' was a Gun Digest "Book of Assault Weapons." Nobody else in the gun industry used the terminology.
 
NO F-Bdy Bs said:
This is exactly the reason we are in the situation we are in. I dont see how pussifying anything will help when the people in question are the ones with the issues. Not us.
Comes a time when you got to say enough with the BS.
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Everyone loves a good straight frontal assault. But if you actually want to win a fight, which is what politics is ('war by other means') you have to use subtlety and guile. Plus the 'tactical' label is dumb and needs to go anyway.
 
"Tactical" has always smacked of mall ninjaness, and "Sport Utility" is a dated expression as well.

From now on, I'm referring to mine as "Cross-Over Carry Knives" ... however I wonder if the mods will ban me if I start using the acronym? :)
 
That's a good one DOW. One of my ideas before E45 came up with SUK was to call them 'hybrids,' due to the interaction between custom makers and mfgs. from which these knives came. No way would the NYT, CNN, CBS, etc. go near a ban on 'hybrids' (as in Prius). Way too confusing for them. But I still like SUK better.
 
I kinda like where this is going, but as a prospective member of a CERT, I'm going to be carrying my "emergency rescue knife" with me wherever I go. Just in case I have to cut some seatbelts.
 
I think I have it. The word "Knife" is what is most offensive. Let's call them Mono-tools (as opposed to multi-tools). Or UCTs, Utility Cutting Tools. I just love my Gerber Combat Folder. It even says it on the blade.
 
I remember seeing some brass knuckles in a package that said "Paper Weight".
 
I'm always a fan of "edged tool." Sometimes I even use "broken scissors" to describe my fixed blade :p
 
Matter separator. Or how about Folding Wedge? Technically a knife is just a sharp wedge.

I still like SUK.
 
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