Originally Posted by
turbo1889
#1 ~ A knife is not by necessarily by its nature a weapon, a kitchen knife was never intended from the get-go to be a weapon but can certainly be used as one in a pinch and some kitchen knives would make better weapons then knives intended from the get-go to be a weapon. Same goes for pocket knives, swiss-army or leather-man multi-function tools that have among a great many other things a knife blade or too are not intended be be weapons from the get-go where as some other pocket knives are very much weapon orientated.
A kitchen knife outside of a kitchen... A baseball bat outside of a baseball game... Etc... Weapons in many situations.
(A pocket knife
is often different.)
Originally Posted by
turbo1889
#2 ~ As to openly holstered firearms being "OK" and socially accepted, in some areas that may be true but most certainly not in many, many others and getting a CWP from the local authorities that lets you legally carry concealed and doing so can be a far better option and get you in far less trouble. (At least for the carrying part, all bets are off if you actually have to use
Why aren't "openly carried" firearms considered more of a crime deterrant?