Would You Wear a Fixed Blade On Your Belt in a Big City Environment?

[redsquid2]

I've got a mental image of the OP walking up to PEOPLE in the street of some huge Yank city .
Pulling out his finely crafted hunting knife (or similar) and saying "check out the craftsmanship on this little sucker!"

I can't picture myself doing that.

Can't you see how that would be disturbing for lots of people?

Yes, I can see how that would be disturbing.

How would they know that you are not some drugged up mental case?

They wouldn't.

 

[aHippieWithKnives]

Here in milwaukee the most i'll carry is my izula if im wearing something that covers it well enough. Otherwise pocket carry is the way to go. Izulas love pockets in my experience.

Hoodlum at fisherman's wharf? Crazy man. Sweet knife shop there, but damn.

 

[meako]

I QUITE AGREE- Except my guesstimate on mental cases in cars would be over -more people die in car crashes than from knives, more people die from cigarettes than from car crashes but nobody is banning them ! "the law is an ass" to quote Dickens.Also I didn't say anyone was worried unduly or in a paranoid way. I meant that if a stranger came up to you and pulled out a knife for you to look at for whatever reason MOST people not knowing the motive would get a bit worried, I know I would.
may commonsense prevail.

Ok, I didn't even read all of this , but I have read enough of them to feel the need to vent a smidge. Is society today so fearful that one cannot carry a small fixed blade knife such as an Izula 2( for size comparison) on your hip without a call to 911? Surely that is not so. Also, in a post above meako said this: "Can't you see how that would be disturbing for lots of people? How would they know that you are not some drugged up mental case?" If "they" are worried that everyone carrying a knife in such a way is a mental case then "they" are in fact mental cases themselves. How many people driving our highways at a high rate of speed do you think are drugged up mental cases? I would bet it is a bigger number than you would think. The point is, we can't constantly worry about every possible scenario all day every day. The word for that is paranoid. I,for one, am not paranoid and couldn't give two craps about who is carrying a knife and are they on drugs or possibly wacko. Methinks there are too many laws on the books and too many lawyers in the courtrooms....

RP OUT

SEMPER-FI TIL I DIE

 

[meako]

Thanks mate. I'm not having a go at you. It has certaqinly made it obvious that an action (or in this case a scenario) can be interpreted in a number of ways by different people. Its a thought provoking question for sure
cheers.

I can't picture myself doing that.




Yes, I can see how that would be disturbing.


They wouldn't.

 

[Harayasu]

Here in the Netherlands I would never carry a fixed blade knife on my belt in the cities, just to avoid unwanted attention. I regularly carry a multitool on my belt though, but people are used to multitools and SAKs, at least here in the northern part of the country.

 

[JNieporte]

I normally carry an Izula II or Cold Steel Pendleton Lite on my belt.

 

[zombizon]

I carry a BRKT Micro Tusk on my belt. Usually my shirt just hangs down over it and nobody even notices I have it. I haven't had any adverse reactions to my taking it out and using it either. In fact, since I'm the only one in my circle of friends who carries a knife (I know, don't get me started on that), I'm constantly being asked to use it on behalf of others.

So yeah, I don't hesitate to wear it on my belt.