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All the people justifying carrying a knife everywhere: context, and also the kind of knife. I remember once being in the labor and delivery ward of a hospital and a guy visiting pulled out his wallet to sign in. He must’ve been one of those every day carry chumps because like 8 things fell out of his pocket, including a pocket knife that was at like 8” long.
What fucking threat are you gonna have to neutralize at the maternity ward you fucking nerd? Or do you think they’re gonna let you cut the cord with that dirty ass flea market knife that’s probably blunt as shit. All you’ve achieved is making everyone around you uncomfortable because america is loaded with incidents of mass violence.
Most of the staff at that hospital are probably carrying a knife as well. They are simply tools and come on handy more often then not. And I love your exaggeration of an 8"knife in a pocket. That would be a waist carry.
The mere assumption that knives are weapons by default seems pretty foreign to me. Sometimes the "fucking threat" that needs "neutralizing" is a tag on a stuffed animal or a plastic clamshell container that can't easily be opened without tools.
I work in a hospital, on the way to work and on the way back I often stop by picking mushrooms. The situation you described is not unlike my ordinary life.
if only car doors had some kind of defense against theft
No, door locks and systems wherein agitation leads to alarms. Additionally hospitals frequently (but tbf not always) having parking that is monitored by security.
If it’s not abundantly clear I’m saying you’re being paranoid, much like any person who feels the need to carry a weapon 24/7. How often does your car get broken into at all? Let alone in the parking lot of a hospital? I’m sure it does happen but does that mean it’s likely? No
10% of homicides are via stabbing, the second highest cause after gun (the undisputed king at 80%). I am not proposing a “ban” on carrying knives though (clearly at no point did I ever say such a thing?), I am just questioning the need to carry one in every single context.
I’ve found that when I do this, very similar to gun people, knife people get absurdly defensive. Like you are here. “How dare you suggest my weapon not be on me at all times! It has a legitimate purpose, you see”. No one is saying that’s not true, it’s the same thing as the gun arguments, these are just deflections from the point of “do you need to carry a weapon 24/7”.
Well listen, you go ahead and carry a knife into the labor and delivery ward then as is your god given right in America. I apologize for questioning the idea of not having one on you at all times. I’m sure when you are visiting a newborn child a sudden attacker or possibly a random clamshell case could get you out of nowhere, and it would clearly be the worst thing in the world to not be able to deal with that in every single context that ever exists