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Showing Original Post only (View all)Pocket Knives - Do You Carry One? [View all]
I do. It's a Schrade Old Timer three-blade stockman's knife. It's in my pants pocket unless I'm flying on a plane or have to go through security at the courthouse. I use it, on average, once a day to do things like open taped-up cardboard boxes, clean my fingernails or cut something that needs to be cut. I've been carrying a knife like that since I was 12 years old, and when I was 12 years old, it was OK to carry a pocket knife, even at school.
So, do you carry a knife in your pocket or in your purse?
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Yes - Always | |
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Yes - Sometimes | |
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Yes - Rarely | |
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I used to, but don't any longer | |
14 (13%) |
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Never have carried a knife | |
13 (12%) |
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Pocket knives should be illegal | |
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I won't answer your stupid poll. | |
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One year for x-mas I bought a 20 lot of tsa confiscated knives off ebay for families
uppityperson
Sep 2015
#137
Me, too. I used to keep one on my keychain- a little swiss army knife
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2015
#184
Whenever I am out hunting or fishing I always carry a flint/steel/tender kit with me.
oneshooter
Sep 2015
#79
No I haven't. Char cloth wooks great for me. A small snuff can of dryer lint,
oneshooter
Sep 2015
#268
Used to carry a small one with blade, scissors, standard screwdriver, and a file.
Gidney N Cloyd
Sep 2015
#25
Schrade is made in China now? Thats sad news. I think the last pocket knife I bought was a Ka-Bar,
Erose999
Sep 2015
#84
Carry a Buck 110 someone gave me. Had a broken blade tip, not under warranty...
Eleanors38
Sep 2015
#98
I have a Case XX electrician's knife I carry sometimes. The hawkbill blade definitely comes in handy
Erose999
Sep 2015
#104
One of these days I'm going to make a sheepsfoot knife for boatbuilding
lumberjack_jeff
Sep 2015
#299
Thanks, you too! I also enjoy Benchmade knives, but I'm nervous to carry them every day ($$$). nt
Romulox
Sep 2015
#99
Sort of. I have one in my driver's side acessory pocket, so I always know exactly where it is.
mahina
Sep 2015
#55
In my tackle box and tool boxes can be found numerous pocket knives.
cherokeeprogressive
Sep 2015
#73
Your Wusthof chef''s knife with the broken handle is from their Gourmet line.
Snobblevitch
Sep 2015
#271
I misplaced one of my pocket knives before 9/11 and found it a year after in a side pocket of my
yurbud
Sep 2015
#301
Used to, then I forgot to take it out of my purse when I went through security at the airport
MiniMe
Sep 2015
#124
Pocket knives aren't likely used to embolden people like Zman, Loughner, racists, etc.
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#178
Naw GG, I'm going to depend on you law-abiding gun owners to do the right thing, no matter what
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#214
You are the one boasting you just couldn't let your gunz go if that were the law.
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#289
Yes. And, I've never carried a gun in public or stockpiled then at home, legal or not.
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#293
Your interlocutor is quite imaginative-he thinks guns make people do bad things
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#307
Has everything to do with you and those like you. To keep you in gunz, we make it easy for those
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#345
Sorry GG, your irrational love of gunz helps make them available to those who will misuse them.
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#347
We are the only country with selfish gun fanciers who care little for society, as long as
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#350
thanks for making a point i've tried to make as a bicyclist LOL and as a knife owner n/t
w0nderer
Sep 2015
#246
Are some potentially deadly weapons deadlier than other potentially deadly weapons?
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#308
Hell no, I use it to cut open boxes and stuff. It's never occurred to me to use it on someone. nt
Stardust
Sep 2015
#181
Silly oneshooter, don't you know that those fatally stabbed are less dead than those fatally shot?
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#309
I carry a Leatherman multitool which has a knife as one of the attachments n/t
eridani
Sep 2015
#189
In terms of bang for the buck I think it's hard to beat some of the Kershaw knives
Major Nikon
Sep 2015
#270
For the kind of whack job that has guns on the brain all the time, this thread is really about guns.
Electric Monk
Sep 2015
#300
There's also the whack jobs that stoutly deny that knives are weapons...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#310
Studies have shown that people behave differently depending on what objects they possess
Electric Monk
Sep 2015
#333
Apparently, we should only carry inexpensive guns and knives while in public
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#361
I carry one that I found lying out at the beach, surrounded by little kids playing
NickB79
Sep 2015
#276
Three days after I got to my destination I found a similar knife in my carry-on bag.
Snobblevitch
Sep 2015
#280
I have that exact same knife. Sometimes I carry it. Sometimes I don't. When I do carry it...
ChisolmTrailDem
Sep 2015
#320
I could have gotten into the habit. But I was a hippy in a time and place
struggle4progress
Sep 2015
#355