"What do you need that weapon for?"

Where i live it is still fairly acceptable to see people wearing a blade- i wear a smaller fixed blade and a leatherman that i use several times a day every day (it is also good advertising for my business as well) but still get the "looks" and the "what do you need that for" my standard answer is generally- "so i don't have to rip and tear things with my teeth and nails like a chimpanzee, we are supposed to be tool users you know"--- the other answer, " why are you not carrying one?" is generally followed by me passing out a business card. many people have a brother, father, or son that has a birthday or something coming up and nearly all have dull kitchen knives at home.
Basic fact is tho- that our society in general is being taught to be afraid of everything and conditioned to believe that self reliance is wrong.I believe that there are people who would wet their pants if there was no bathroom available. Even people that do carry a knife generally carry a pathetically small blade- many believe that a large blade sends some sort of message and are embarassed by it. Oh well, i could go on but won't---
 
"What do you need that 'weapon' for?"

I was once asked that very same question only moments after successfully (but narrowly) avoiding getting bitten by an angry dog. Ummm... duh! :rolleyes:
 
There are so many of these threads about "sheeple's" over reaction to pocket knives of some sort. Those threads are not a problem, people need to vent, there *are* over reactions. I'm not even going to read the whole thread (yet, I'm at work) so I hope I'm not off base with what I'm about to say.

Much has been said about people who "deploy" instead of open their knife. A problem it's true.

I carry a small slipjoint on weekends and have still gotten remarks. There *are* people you could call "sheeple".

There are both sides to the story and they are both true.

My latest conclusion is this. Everything else aside, some people are just jerks. If they weren't whining about your knife they would be whining about something else.

Some folks you gotta take with a grain of salt. *Some* folks you gotta take with a grain of morphine.
 
d0nut said:
I think many of you are not aware of what the OP has been up to.

He already posted that he likes to wear a Guy Fawkes mask around in public just to agitate people "for the lulz and see the look on people's faces" (link)

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He also posted that he sometimes carries a "folding pocket razor saw" (link). So I wonder if the OP is telling the whole story in this initial post? Was he "making lanyards" with his halloween mask on? Did the lady spot the razor saw sticking out of his pocket?
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Well that sure doesn't show the OP in a favorable light.
 
Over Christmas, my aunt and cousin were unboxing something, and I pulled out my lionsteel SR-1A to open the boxed. my aunt freaked out "woah becareful, what are you doing with that deadly weapon?" This from someone who's father and brothers all conceal carry and keep a gun in the car. I just laughed, opened the box, put it away and then she was fine with it. Women.
 
Blackie Scantling said:
Sitting on a bench in a public park with earbuds in rocking out to some tunes...what could happen:

b. Some of Obama's sons attack you, take your music device, earbuds, watch, Iphone, wallet, and knife and either kill you or put you in the hospital or some crazy woman taps you on the shoulder and asks what you need a weapon for.

I'll take b. for $600.00 Alex
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Really not cool diatribe there. :thumbdn:
 
It is funny how some people that do not know you act when you use a knife in public.Then on the other hand the people that do know you will go out of there way to get to you because they know without a doubt you are carrying a knife,and they need something cut.Im popular every Christmas.[Go sit with uncle Eddie,he will open that for you.]
Eddie
 
stabman said:
Really not cool diatribe there. :thumbdn:
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Yeah, I was wondering why nobody had said anything... Blatant racism is a little surprising to see on this forum outside of the usual distasteful things said about chinese knifemakers.
 
Comeuppance said:
Yeah, I was wondering why nobody had said anything... Blatant racism is a little surprising to see on this forum outside of the usual distasteful things said about chinese knifemakers.
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And does a lot more to make knife enthusiasts look bad than some kid making stuff out of paracord on a bench.
 
I've had this question before. I'm usually armed with a list of people who have died in car accidents because they can't be cut out of their malfunctioning seatbelts. "Because I don't want any little kids to die unnecessarily in a burning car" is a pretty hard answer to get all self-righteous about. I was carrying a little boot dagger too, in the most liberal city in my state. The response? "Wow, I didn't know about all that." "Yup, knives are important tools, and when you need one, there's really no substitute. Which is why there have been people who have died because nobody is carrying a knife." There are PLENTY of people who think this way, and it's really quite sad.
 
Ha, a girl in my Economics class today nearly died of fright when I pulled out my Benchmade Pen to write down some lecture notes. "That's dangerous!"
 
Hey...just finished season 2 of Sons of Anarchy on Netflix and Jax walks around daily with a large fixed blade hanging off his belt in a sheath. He visits the hospital and police station almost daily, and not the first Californian sheepperson nor LEO has said anything to him about it. :D
 
Caleb M. said:
True. I used to do dumb stuff like that. I try not to now.
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Used to? Last month really isn't that long ago. You gotta do more than try!

I notice that a lot of the young kids on here are infatuated with hacking and hacking culture. I don't understand it - unless you're an experienced computer programmer, screwing around with hackers will get your CPU eat up with viruses and could land your parents in jail. All computer hackers wants you for is to do their bidding, and maybe lend your CPU's processing power to a Denial of Service attack. Anonymous isn't anybody until a criminal enterprise in the Czech republic needs their resources to create a credit scam bot-net. Then somebody gets rich while the thousands of U.S. teenagers that bought into a constructed message are unaware that they're contributing to the same people draining mommy and daddy's Target credit card. Then anonymous is you because your IP is on the activity.

Hacking doesn't make you look cool or dangerous. If you haven't made a lot of money then there is nothing to brag about, and if you have you'll want to keep your mouth shut so you can get away with it - so it is self defeating as far as any kind of reputation goes.

Throw away the mask kid, if you're still here when you're 18 and have shown progress and I am too, I'll be the first one (unless Grey Kilt beats me to it) to donate some $$$ to help you upgrade your Mini Grip to a full sized grip. Better yet if you spend your time doing something constructive, you could end up like the kid that developed Summ.ly and just buy Benchmade.
 
A Justice said:
Used to? Last month really isn't that long ago. You gotta do more than try!

I notice that a lot of the young kids on here are infatuated with hacking and hacking culture. I don't understand it - unless you're an experienced computer programmer, screwing around with hackers will get your CPU eat up with viruses and could land your parents in jail. All computer hackers wants you for is to do their bidding, and maybe lend your CPU's processing power to a Denial of Service attack. Anonymous isn't anybody until a criminal enterprise in the Czech republic needs their resources to create a credit scam bot-net. Then somebody gets rich while the thousands of U.S. teenagers that bought into a constructed message are unaware that they're contributing to the same people draining mommy and daddy's Target credit card. Then anonymous is you because your IP is on the activity.

Hacking doesn't make you look cool or dangerous. If you haven't made a lot of money then there is nothing to brag about, and if you have you'll want to keep your mouth shut so you can get away with it - so it is self defeating as far as any kind of reputation goes.

Throw away the mask kid, if you're still here when you're 18 and have shown progress and I am too, I'll be the first one (unless Grey Kilt beats me to it) to donate some $$$ to help you upgrade your Mini Grip to a full sized grip. Better yet if you spend your time doing something constructive, you could end up like the kid that developed Summ.ly and just buy Benchmade.
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I will say that I find people who claim to be members of Anonymous lacking (Caleb, seriously, man. You gotta ditch your connection to these guys). In my personal experience, Anonymous is roughly 98% internet losers who talk a huge game on 4-Chan (and elsewhere) who are riding the coat-tails of the other 2%, who are the real "hackers" behind Anonymous' various DDOS attacks and other online misadventures. I have been on multiple forums where someone gets heckled and then responds with "Oh yeah? Well, I'm a member of Anonymous, so why don't you come over to my section on 4-Chan and talk that trash!". They do that because there's like, one guy (because none of them can do it) who'll use your IP address in order to find out everything about you and post it up so that all of the kids who don't have any skills can all dogpile on and make fun of you or egg your house.

Anonymous to me is not unlike a group of small, weak kids talking smack to anyone and everyone, and when that guy goes to retaliate, they run home to call their Dad outside to defend them. That's Anonymous.
 
I have a mental image coming to me: Caleb sitting on park bench in trench coat, combat boots and black hoodie holding a knife. If you don't like drawing attention to yourself then don't draw attention to yourself.
 
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