znapschatz said:
With all due respect for fellow KKs, some of would rush to the aid of someone in distress, and others not. Carrying a blade does not confer character of any kind.
I agree. I was merely being "tongue in cheek." It just seems to me that some of the current laws and rules concerning what knives are allowed to be carried are being based on irrationally emotional arguments.
znapschatz said:
While I have always tried to live up the the Boy Scout motto, it seems a bit much to debate public policy on a worst case scenario that is most likely to never occur. Chances of being in a burning car and not being able to release your seat belt in the usual way range from slim to remote. So is the chance that, in those unlikely circumstances, a knifeguy wielding a big honker will charge to your rescue.
I agree with you again. I'm just positing the extremes. I would have to be severely injured, and probably unconcious, before I could not cut my own seatbelt away.
znapschatz said:
Law abiding people should have the right to carry any kind of knife that suits them.
Again, I agree with you.
znapschatz said:
The "sheeple" factor can be annoying and frustrating, but of the entire range of political and ecnomic issues facing our society, this is by far not a priority.
I believe that the "sheeple factor" has more control over those that are making and passing the rules and laws than does common sense.
Another BladeForums' member has recently had a rule handed-down, concerning his entire Washington D.C. building, that no one is allowed to bring a knife to work, period. The previous rule was that no one was allowed to bring a knife to work with a blade any longer than 3". No, there weren't any attacks that occured with a 3" or longer knife, in that workplace, that prompted the rule change. I guess that the "reason" for the new rule was that the building's security folks were getting tired of standing around, holding rulers, with which to measure each knife's blade length.
I believe that we should all be carrying and using our knives and multi-tools in a law-abiding way, using them for the tools that they are. Once someone steps beyond that legal boundary, menacing or threatening someone with them, then they don't deserve to possess and carry them. "Sheeple" might consider just the carrying of a knife or multi-tool to be a menace or threat.
The "sheeple factor" has to do with the disgust or even abject, illogical horror of seeing someone carrying a knife, for whatever reason, and immediately jumping to a conclusion that said person might be violence-prone. I should be allowed to carry whatever knife that my local municipal laws stipulate that I can, without my having to consider that "sheeple" might be unduly/illogically alarmed by it.
People who don't carry a knife or a multi-tool alarm me. Who's going to come to their rescue, when they need help, if they haven't even prepared themselves?
GeoThorn
