I've never appreciated the casual nature of carrying a killing weapon wherever you go.
And I own and collect combat knives. And keep them on my desk, in a rather insecure manner (in a secure room).
That said, thinking that anyone can carry a weapon designed to kill (even a combat knife has well known alternate uses) in public says that the:
a) The streets aren't safe.
b) The police cannot be depended on.
c) Someone is out to get me.
A and B are a governmental problem. Fix them.
C is purely in your head and is more akin to believing in a magic man in the sky (who's really that voice in your head). It is a sign of mental illness, mayhap, to think that carrying a weapon everyone does nothing but increase the available weapons in a population.
Also, if we consider certain criminal tendencies to be mental illness, then it is even crazier to think that a sane populace is buying weapons to defend themselves against the insane, which by definition is defending yourself against an ambiguity as you have no way of identifying who, what, where or when, can't ascribe motive and certainly can't articulate who truly is after you because they ARE CRAZY. You can't predict crazy.
And I own and collect combat knives. And keep them on my desk, in a rather insecure manner (in a secure room).
That said, thinking that anyone can carry a weapon designed to kill (even a combat knife has well known alternate uses) in public says that the:
a) The streets aren't safe.
b) The police cannot be depended on.
c) Someone is out to get me.
A and B are a governmental problem. Fix them.
C is purely in your head and is more akin to believing in a magic man in the sky (who's really that voice in your head). It is a sign of mental illness, mayhap, to think that carrying a weapon everyone does nothing but increase the available weapons in a population.
Also, if we consider certain criminal tendencies to be mental illness, then it is even crazier to think that a sane populace is buying weapons to defend themselves against the insane, which by definition is defending yourself against an ambiguity as you have no way of identifying who, what, where or when, can't ascribe motive and certainly can't articulate who truly is after you because they ARE CRAZY. You can't predict crazy.
