"Why do you carry a weapon?!"

[BBW]

I tell them is a tool to cut things and ask them if they have noticed how much crap comes wrapped in plastic nowadays?
Sure I could use scissors but I never had them on me; besides how uncool would be to carry a scissor in your belt?

 

[@LeathermanGX]

I had one of these innocuous plasticky looking Blackie Collins on and heard that exact question. With a heavy tone of contempt, from a middle age yuppie. I wish I had something witty to come back with. All I had was "it's a box opener" with a stupid look on my face.

 

[AntDog]

My brother and me have been spending a couple weekends working on our Harleys. Last time he was at the house he told me what he says when people ask:

He whips out his Kershaw Chive and says "this is for opening mail". Then he pulls out his Cold Steel Ti Lite and says "this one's for opening people".

By the way, it's the XL Ti Lite (6 inch blade) and he "waves" it open. Awesome!

 

[arizonaranchman]

Sadly enough our children are being taught to fear any type of cutting instument.
For example...
I worked for our school district in the technology department and one day needed to replace a part on a
smartboard. I went to the room and set my parts box down and proceeded to open it with a small utility knife
when suddenly a kid starts yelling "DEADLY WEAPON, DEADLY WEAPON".
Talk about "freak-me-the-freak-out" !!!

I started teaching my son how to properly use a knife at a young age. He's almost 13 and finally cut his finger for
the first time. Kind of a proud moment in a father's life.
My daughter is almost 7 and loves to look at my collection. She starts filling one hand up with knives sayin
"I want this one and this one and this one...".
Sad times we live in, my friends.

This is the "DEADLY WEAPON" I had that scary day....

The age of mindless Sheeple is upon us. I shudder when I see where we're headed...

 

[RedLynx]

Perhaps when it gets too bad, we could all build a community together, away from the senselessness. I hear you have a ranch in Arizona.

 

[Swampfoxoutdoors]

I carry a weapon ( Pistol and Pocket knife) because I like them!

Never really felt like I was in danger but I carry a G26 or Kahr cw380 just in case. I live out in rural North East GA so I am more likely to use my side arm to dispatch a wounded dog, deer or cow on the side of the road thank stop a attacker.

 

[John_0917]

A good old walking stick works for me. I was surrounded by barking dogs before and have had strays come at me aggressively outdoors, while metal detecting. Maybe the tones from the headphones bother dogs, dunno.

I wouldn't suggest the walking stick defense against a pit bull or similar. On second thought, I wouldn't suggest anything less than a firearm either, and even that is no guarantee.

 

[John_0917]

I had one of these innocuous plasticky looking Blackie Collins on and heard that exact question. With a heavy tone of contempt, from a middle age yuppie. I wish I had something witty to come back with. All I had was "it's a box opener" with a stupid look on my face.

"Because I perform free vasectomies for certain people who are deserving..." and stare at him.

 

[theaggregate]

It's not a weapon, it is a tool....

...that doubles as a weapon.

 

[mrdeus]

So I don't have to cut myself while trying to rip a package open like my boss just did

 

[pnsxyr]

There's nothing you can say to most people who have that sort of mindset. To them, their idea of a weapon is sensationalized, stigmatized, and specialized solely for offensive usage on someone who is the victim, completely regardless of whether the weapon is being used for self-defense or not.

You simply carrying a tool that in their mind is a decisive "weapon" because the physical appearance is different from what they know automatically makes you a bad guy with some sort of psycho-babble issue that is abnormally morbid and not quite right in the head. If you fight back when you are attacked and manage to utilize successful defense, you're the bad guy and the criminal is the victim.

Next thing you know, Congress needs to pass more laws to disarm law-abiding citizens like yourself for the sake of the children, Joe Biden will give a speech on how all you need to protect yourself is a green plastic lettuce knife which you throw in the general direction of the bad guy while emulating knife sounds and duck calls, the ACLU will file every lawsuit against you imaginable on behalf of the thug that attacked you, the Huffington Post will run a story about how you are some extreme nutcase with a vigilante attitude hellbent on harming people indiscriminately with your weapons, and then these anti-everything people will start protesting outside of your home demanding "social justice" for the criminal that attacked you and won't leave (or shower) until the next soda ban is proposed giving them a new rallying point of something else that needs to be banned from public usage because when combined with Mentos, someone could get hurt (in which they still wont shower).

It's no use.

 

[Jesse B.]

The age of mindless Sheeple is upon us. I shudder when I see where we're headed...

The "herd" mentality has been a part of us since the dawn of humankind; it just manifests itself differently according to time and place. It flourishes based on a lack of independent thought -- and those who do stop and think for themselves risk getting trampled.

 

[HoosierQ]

I was at a restaurant and got the "Greek Salad". The dressing comes in a bag that must be made by the same people that make the bags for the MREs. So I am preparing my salad and I get out my Spyderco Endura to cut it open. I do so rather slowly I suppose. May or may not have opened it with one hand...may not have bothered.

The waitress walks up, her eyes go very big, and she says "Oh my gosh! Do you need a KNIFE or something?!?!" I just said, "Uhhh. Well. No. I have one thanks." "But I would like some more crackers please and I'd like a refill of my soda in a to-go cup also. Thanks".

 

[RedLynx]

Joe Biden will give a speech on how all you need to protect yourself is a green plastic lettuce knife which you throw in the general direction of the bad guy while emulating knife sounds and duck calls,
It's no use.

Let's be honest with each other.... we ALL sort of want to make those cool action movie fighting noises when throwing a punch, kick, or even swinging a knife. it's just not the same without those noises.

 

[bakergh]

Let's be honest with each other.... we ALL sort of want to make those cool action movie fighting noises when throwing a punch, kick, or even swinging a knife. it's just not the same without those noises.

I hate it when an otherwise good movie starts throwing in *swish* and *shink* sounds every time a knife moves at any velocity performing any task. I much prefer the sound of a sharp blade cleanly cutting through paper, so that is the noise I imagine they're making when I'm fiddling with knives, because you're right, they have to make some sort of noise...

 

[Bastid]

Let's make sure to keep "politics" out of this.

Personally the knife I carry is not a weapon in my mind. It is a tool I use a few times every day. My dad gave me my first pocket knife at 4. Fifty pluss years later I have had to present a weapon two times, but never have presented a knife as a weapon.

 

[RedLynx]

I hate it when an otherwise good movie starts throwing in *swish* and *shink* sounds every time a knife moves at any velocity performing any task. I much prefer the sound of a sharp blade cleanly cutting through paper, so that is the noise I imagine they're making when I'm fiddling with knives, because you're right, they have to make some sort of noise...

Yeah no kidding... purely as an exercise I've swished a knife at high velocities... not much going on there in the audio department.

 

[pirate223]

Yeah no kidding... purely as an exercise I've swished a knife at high velocities... not much going on there in the audio department.

I've been able to create some sort of "swish" noise by flick a knife, but it wasn't too audible.
People like to make fun of me for carrying. I get the last laugh, though, when I calmly walk over to them trying to tear a package apart and offer to cut it.

 

[D-R0CK]

"A knife is primarily a tool and secondarily a weapon. A gun is a weapon, a knife is a tool."

 

[singularity35]

"A knife is primarily a tool and secondarily a weapon. A gun is a weapon, a knife is a tool."

Hhhmmmm not necessarily, there are knives designed to be weapons. Daggers, for instance.