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Showing Original Post only (View all)Question: I carry a knife on me most of the time. Is that as wrong as carrying a gun? [View all]
It's a Benchmade 530. This exact one actually (although mine has a small serrated section just above the base of the blade):
I use it mostly for utility, cutting boxes and rolls of printer paper at work. But I also consider it a defensive weapon. Not that I think I'll likely ever have to use it. But it's always there if the need arises.
I tend to frown upon carrying firearms. Not to long ago, I use to own a S&W 5906 and I open carried a couple times just to see what it felt like. I didn't like it. In fact, I tired of the guns in general and sold them all off.
But I still carry my knife. For those who don't support the carry of firearms, do you also consider the carry of defensive knives just as bad?
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Question: I carry a knife on me most of the time. Is that as wrong as carrying a gun? [View all]
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
OP
Plenty of places in the US where blades that long are illegal. Use it in self defense in the wrong
Skeeter Barnes
Aug 2013
#7
How is it different than carrying a pound of cocaine and going to jail when you didn't hurt anyone?
Logical
Aug 2013
#82
Only the people we trust (like cops, politicians, etc) should be allowed to carry them
The Straight Story
Aug 2013
#10
Indeed. Whereas our neighbors and such, well if you see something say something
The Straight Story
Aug 2013
#16
And let's not forget recent stabbings, like Eight-year-old boy stabs sister, more:
The Straight Story
Aug 2013
#18
Ah, I see...so it is some freedom people don't use the way you like often enough
The Straight Story
Aug 2013
#48
How many people here have actually advocated that position? Sounds like a strawman to me.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2013
#71
Okay, maybe I'm overstating things a bit. I guess aside from the "scary" look the AR isn't
nomorenomore08
Aug 2013
#93
I carry a Leatherman in my purse. I don't specifically carry it for the blade,
Arkansas Granny
Aug 2013
#11
Like you, I don't carry my Leatherman for defense. It's about the handiest tool I've ever owned and
Arkansas Granny
Aug 2013
#42
A Leatherman (or a Gerber if you are on a budget) and a roll of Gaff Tape
SomethingFishy
Aug 2013
#77
There have been plenty of cases where kids brought guns in their backpacks to school
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#58
There were several adult witnesses to both these cases that you don't believe in.
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#65
They were adults that could see that the child wasn't holding the gun -- it was in the backpack. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#69
"Holding/moving/manipulating" a backpack could cause a hidden gun to discharge accidentally.
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#72
Much like "the car rolled downhill" is what idiots say when the emergency brake disengages or become
LanternWaste
Aug 2013
#59
I sometimes carry a knife, but the blades on the knives I carry are only about 2" long. nt
ZombieHorde
Aug 2013
#53
As others have noted, a knife is far less deadly (potentially) than a gun.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2013
#73