A fear of tools is unhealthy
Some special snowflake gets triggered at the sight of a small knife. Remember when it was not a big deal to carry a knife? I carried one in high school and even, on occasion, loaned it to my teachers.
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March 7th, 2016 at 9:10 pm
When I was in Elementary/Junior High/High school in the 1960s-early 1970s every boy and many girls at the schools I went to had a pocketknife with them AT SCHOOL. They were regarded as TOOLS. There were no problems of any kind caused by them.
March 7th, 2016 at 9:36 pm
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded emotional and sexual maturity.” – Sigmund Feud
But I prefer,
“Fear not.” – Jesus
March 7th, 2016 at 9:38 pm
Sadly, by the time I started school in Birmingham around 1980, knives were already verboten. Hell, by the time I graduated in 1994, they were having metal detector sweeps a couple of times a year. Didn’t stop the thugs from fighting.
March 7th, 2016 at 11:09 pm
Third grade in 1966 in Tacoma, WA. I always carried my pocket knife and the school rule was the blade had to be shorter than your palm’s width. I had to demonstrate once that it met the rule but it generally didn’t even raise an eyebrow that a boy had a knife.
March 8th, 2016 at 3:55 am
best comment:”buck knives matter” 🙂
March 8th, 2016 at 8:17 am
I bought my first knife from a teacher at my school. My parents found out and just shrugged. They hadn’t known that I wanted one, or one would probably have shown up in a birthday or Christmas present.
Fast forward a number of years, and part way through my Junior year, for financial reasons, my family had to move to the city. My first day of school in the “big” city (big for me anyway, I grew up on a farm). A teacher was having problems opening a box from the school’s copy center because they had done too good a job taping it shut, and all she had were those rounded-off scissors that they give kindergartners. SO, being a helpful sort, I offered her my knife. Handle first, of course, I wasn’t a barbarian. She screamed, ran over, and hit this big red button on the wall by the door, and soon after I was being hauled to the principal’s office by the school resource officer. Oops…
Luckily for me, the principal understood what was going on and let me off with a warning to never bring a knife to school again, and I could pick my 1 1/2″ blade folder up at the end of the day. Yes, the knife was THAT tiny.
March 8th, 2016 at 12:21 pm
I don’t remember how old I was, but my first knife was actually my Mom’s old Swiss Army knife from when she was a kid. One of the scales was missing, and the blade had been used and sharpened enough that it was noticeably thinner than one would expect, but it was still a good knife (and I still have it, and even use it on occasion – the little scissors are handy).
I always carried a pocketknife with me, even in school, since the 7th grade. (Before that, I only carried one when I thought I might need it, mainly because I didn’t like having things in my pockets.) The idea that college students, and especially faculty, would get that bent out of shape over what sounds like a penknife, just boggles my mind.
But then again, I also don’t understand people not having some kind of blade on them when out and about. Because I’m an adult. So…
March 8th, 2016 at 1:22 pm
I’m 30 years old, and I can remember carrying the swiss army knife I got in Boy Scouts. I carried it pretty much everyday from ~ age 8 until I lost it in college when I was 18 or 19.
Kicker is, the larger of the 2 blades was actually larger than 3 inches and thus it was illegal to carry under state laW. Of course, as a kid this never occurred to me, and the knife was never an issue.
I didn’t play with it. Teachers knew I had it and I would, at times, loan it to one of them.
In fact, it wasn’t until college that I observed “adults” who were afraid of a simple pocket knife.
March 8th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
As long as we allow it, their (pretend) fear and their (engineered) dysfunction is their power over us. That’s the model, and it’s been working enough that they keep expanding on it. It’s purely our fault for tolerating the ruse.
March 8th, 2016 at 1:40 pm
I always have a pocketknife in my pocket… I’m not armed, I’m dressed. I use it for a dozen things every day…none of which involve drawing blood or threatening people.
March 8th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Yes, the world has changed considerably since we were kids. In the early 1980s I carried a Buck 110 in a belt sheath from the 10th grade on. Never had one word said to me about it.
March 8th, 2016 at 9:54 pm
When I was in school I rember seeing that once in a while a boy in My class wold be dressed in his boy scout uniform and have a knife hanging off of their belt. Even some of us girls carried a pocket knife. I know I did.
March 8th, 2016 at 11:56 pm
I graduated in 82 and don’t recall any knife rules, but I may just not have been paying attention. I always had a SAK or Boy Scout knife on me, but it was never an issue because I never tried to stab anybody. Malum prohibitum laws are just retarded.
Nowadays I always have a switchblade, a butterfly and a multitool with a couple of blades. I took the first two to the Cutco shop to get them sharpened and the poor girl handed them back for me to open and close because she didn’t know how. At least she wasn’t all freaked out.
March 9th, 2016 at 12:17 am
Born in the early sixties. My twin brother and I were promised that when we turned 12 we would be allowed to buy ourselves (paper route money) a real pocket knife. Yay! From the age of 12 through junior high and High school I carried an old timer folding hunter and my bro a buck 110. Wore them in a belt sheath.(Pretty sure the folks thought we would pick out a nice Imperial or Case 3 blade folder)Never a problem. We each still have those knives 40 years later. Heh. Never had a problem or complaint from a teacher or fellow student. I still carry a good useful knife every day (now it’s a Benchmade 940 Osborne) and can’t imagine that anyone doesn’t.
March 9th, 2016 at 1:52 am
In the late 80’s, working at a surgical laser company in Silicon Valley, I carried a Tekna Micro Knife(tm) in my shirt pocket. 6″ long overall, it has a retractable blade cover over it’s 2″ fixed blade. Push a button in the end cap, and the cover retracts with an audible snap, similar in sound to a switchblade.
Everyone who saw/heard it reacted like I had whipped out a short sword. They couldn’t seem to accept that the blade wasn’t moving outward, that the plastic cover was sliding into the handle, instead. Perfectly legal.
Got real tired of the PC drama queens reacting the same way every time I pulled it out to cut something. One of the engineers told me he had worked at Tekna, and they had stopped making the knife, so the company could be more PC. Sheesh.