what to do when people freak out about your knife

mycroftt said:
I'm not saying that man is descended from the great apes - I am saying that the modern taxonomy places man among the great apes.
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Well, then you're just wrong. The great apes are our closest surviving relatives, but we are not great apes. This is not really the right forum....
 
Rugger said:
One of my favorite responses: "To me, it's a tool, to you, it's a weapon- perhaps we should all be worried about YOU..."
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That's great, gotta remember that one. :thumbup:
 
It's kinda funny actually when some people get too inquisitive and self-righteous about weapons. I live in a very left-wing environment. I've had people confront me about having a large knife in my front pocket. Normally, it's hardly noticeable, but on occassion it might be more visible (ya'll know what I mean). Anyway, I've had people quoting me some imaginary law about blade length or knife size. I've even had one guy tell me he was going to call the cops on me (and write down my license plate). I laughed and offered up my cell. I'm a cop here in WI, so he wouldn't have gotten very far with his beef.
 
I carry a printout of local knife laws in my wallet to shove in people's faces if they get all frightened.
 
I used to have a Motorola V60 cell phone that I put a pocket clip (made for pocket knives) on. I epoxied on a piece of black linen Micarta then attached the clip to the micarta. Anyways, this consultant at work asks me "Do you always have to have your Spyderco?" At that point I pulled out my cell phone and let him look at it. I responded with "I don't have a Spyderco, but I do have an Al Mar." It turns out that the guy was a gun nut.

Usually at work I carry a small bladed knife (less than 2"). I make sure it looks "cute". The one I have today has a 1.5" blade about 3.5" OAL with a lignumvitae handle.

I have a very small neck knife (3" OAL) with out a sheath that hangs from my cubicle light fixture (rare earth magnet). Sharp, but cute!

Ric
 
just a thought but a smat ass response to knives as weapons could be " well most murders with knives are commited with kitchen knives or knives under $50 and this is a $300 knife so statisticly speaking your pretty safe."
 
The only issue I ever had was in the Military. I was in the Air National Guard and used to carry a Gerber fixed blade 5inch and a Gerber multiplier and a Benchmade AFCK.

My section chief asked me about it one day and I said that I had it just in case I needed to cut anything. He said that he wastn sure if it was appropriate to carry---I asked him if he had ever been on a camping trip and he said yes. I asked him if he needed a knife on trip and he said yes. I asked him if we were issued anything when going into the field for knives or multitools and he said no. I said makes no sense to have no knives for going in field when after all going into the file is just a big hunting camping trip. He didnt say anything after that.

Then came the hurricanes and this time i carried a Cold Steel bush ranger instread of Gerber fixed. This moron comes up to me and asks me if he can borrow my knife to use to open up the MRE boxes, Ice Pallets and Water Pallets as nobody had issued anything to open them up. Idiot---I told him no but volunteered to do the work as didnt trust him with my knife.

An even bigger homosexual was our CO---a LtCol what a fairy. He asked me what and a fellow were talking about one day in chow line and I said Uzis---Israeli Sub Machine Guns and he looked like I was talking French. I asked him if he wanted to shoot my Uzi and he just about fainted.

I dont think I ever met a bigger bunch of sissies in one place then in that Unit. I wouldnt trust them to fold laundry never mind defend anything. I was ashamed to be in that Unit and thankfully never was sent overseas with them.
Talk about a waste of money---at least 3 million a year of wasting away at that unit.
 
Yeah, its really sad. Here' in the Socialist Repulik of New Jersey you cannot carry ANYTHING by law. I used to carry a full size BM Pika at work, but started getting the ol' raised eyebrow from people. So I switched to a BenchmiteII, much more idiot friendly.
 
they forget about the sog tigershark real quick when I pull out my H&K usp 40 S&W or my ak-47 or bushmaster m4 or eaa 10mm. Sorry my gun and knife addiction is worse than any crack addict.
 
My standard response to the "weapon" accusation is a very practiced "What on EARTH are you talking about?" look, followed closely by going on about my business. It seldom happens here, since the largest employer in town is a beef packing plant that slaughters over 1000 head a day. Most folks here are used to seeing knives.
 
It is illegal to stab people right? I have an ink pen on my desk which is easily a weapon. I don't need no stiking knife to mortally wound someone. I consider my balisong's toys not weapons as I have no intention of using them as such.
 
I usually look at them and say, "do you wanna touch it?." Or something akin to that. I've said, "don't worry I have bandaids in my wallet", or some other remark. I try to make lite of the situation.

STR
 
I'll usually slap the back of my neck and say "remember I'm a bit of a Redneck" that shuts them up.
 
The other day at work, I was forced to attend a Halloween food party at work and watched with amazement my stupid "Jabba the Hutt" fat boss struggle with a container of potato salad trying to get it open [of course no one had anything other than a plastic knife in a room full of food]. He saw the woman's keys on the table that had brought in the potato salad and asked her which key wasn't important if he destroyed it opening the package! [Note: he wasn't about to destroy any of his keys!] Meanwhile, I'm standing there with an Al Mar mini-sere clipped to my jean pocket. Do you think I would offer it to him? Hell no, he tried to get me fired a couple of years ago for carrying a swisstool in a pouch on my belt. The sheeple can just struggle with life -- they will get no help from me. He finally got it open, I just walked away.
 
IS THAT A WEAPON?

Yeah, it came with my dad's Y chromosome. Ohhh, no, I bought this at WalMart.

No, I haven't carried a box knife since 9/11.

Hmmm, I haven't tried hunting deer with it yet.

Still haven't gotten over the divorce? (or, I see you're getting over the divorce.)

:D :D :D :D
 
People don't like my vaquero grande. They thik it's too big:D
I just ignore negative comments sometimes or look at them like they are stupid. Which they are:p
 
To me, a guy who doesn't like knives sounds like a guy who doesn't like women. He must be really sick. :thumbdn:
 
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