Ace Wrote:So you think it's ok to go one step further by leaving your house with a knife or gun? This helps how?.
To defend the possessions i carry (and myself, and other people) on the road almost so well as in my house?
Quote:Yes knives in a house is common and quite normal. But why leave the house with a knife? What are you going to do? Cut meat up in the meddle of the street?
If the meat is on someone charging at me with a knife: yes, i will be 'cutting up' meat in the middle of the street. It is also common and quite normal for people up here to have knives. Alaska has a fairly high percentage of population in military (At least from my area).
Knives are very good at cutting things open. I've had occasions where I'd like to open a box. Say someone had just been stabbed and I can use the knife to quickly and crudely cut them a bandage. Lots of alaskans hunt and fish: why wouldn't we carry a knife when we are hunting or fishing? I expect you want to pick up a fucking bull moose on your lonesome. As for fishing, there are so many applications I've used a knife for that to list them is kind of stupid (you would not believe how retarded it is to get a loon out of a net without a knife. Never again.).
Quote:Corpses with stab wounds often leads to a knife crime. Basic logic really. You can tell crime has gone up because of the increased reports...and bodies.
You can also tell that less people have been robbed because they've stabbed the highwaymen that thought he would rob them.
Ace Wrote:Why are they armed?
It's alaska. 3 of them are or have been in the army, 1 presented his (very nice) knife to me when I asked how he would defend himself if a gunman entered the building
I presume they are armed out of habit or for their own protection.Quote:If criminals are strongly deterred by law and justice and thus making crime unlikely to affect you, why arm yourself?
Because some members of the populace are like me (do not care much that there are laws against a thing).
Quote:I'm not trying to dictate unto others of their freedoms. An opinion is all I have given. I believe concealed weapons are wrong. My opinion, not something I'm trying to dictate unto others good sir.
If it makes you feel any better, it's my belief that people should be able to carry non-concealed weapons, the likes of rifles and swords.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
