I carried knives for over 25 years - until the Law on knives changed, in fact! Not once in that quarter of a century did I ever pull one of those knives on anybody in anger or without their weapon/s being shown to me, first. My knife wasn't an offensive weapon...it was a Self Defence Implement. The privileged Police use weapons on humans, every day, but (naturally), when they use them, they're called "Self Defence Implements"!
How you intend to use such things is what gives them their respective names!
I am one reason to believe that the Government's policy on ALL KNIVES being disallowed for ALL PEOPLE in the country, is hopelessly wrong and, for the most part, will be simply ignored! There are responsible carriers of knives and there are irresponsible carriers of knives!
Our self defence baby has been knee-jerkily thrown out with the bath-water of offensive weapons hysteria!
Many times, during those 25 years, I had to pull a knife and sternly indicate my readiness to use it in self-defence, because somebody else was seconds away from attacking me with their own or with another type of weapon. On no occasion did I have to go further and the assailants walked away, or ran away - swearing, yes, but they went away and that was the idea of my knife!
Once it was finished with, it went back in my pocket.
I wasn't carrying that knife to execute unprovoked injury: it was there to give me A GREATER THAN ZERO CHANCE OF SURVIVING SOMEBODY ELSE'S KNIFE!
And, it did that job - brilliantly - all the way through that quarter of a century! It was my old faithful "sidearm" and it was a part of my pocket's daily life!
I didn't cruise the streets to attack people with it! I didn't amble around my home town hunting for people to stab, to see what would happen! I didn't use the presence of that knife in my pocket to make myself appear "big" or "tough", or to get spending money for the weekend! I carried it because of that knife's ability to make me able to go my way and not feel as vulnerable as the our myopic Government's current over-response to the bearership of knives and their responsible use leaves me feeling, now!
IT'S BETTER TO HAVE A SELF-DEFENCE IMPLEMENT AND NOT NEED IT THAN IT WILL EVER BE TO NEED A SELF-DEFENCE IMPLEMENT AND NOT HAVE IT!
Once the others about to attack me walked away, my own knife was closed and put back in the pocket from which it had been taken, and I continued on my way, happy at the deterrent effect it had had! Given that NONE of those potential attackers ever followed me and that I never had trouble from them, again, my own purpose in carrying a blade...was fulfilled!
I COULD STILL BE THAT SAFE, THAT CALM AND THAT CONFIDENT, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THIS INTERFERING GOVERNMENT'S OBSESSION WITH BANNING EVERY METALLIC ITEM EVER MENTIONED IN THE MEDIA!
It's only a matter of time before they begin banning: ballpens, cigarette lighters, metal combs, trouser belt buckles, Coca Cola can ring-pulls, and front door keys!
Any fool who is ready to carry a knife purely as an offensive weapon and abuse it in a criminal manner is not going to be discouraged by Laws. In fact, the minds of most of those irresponsible animals are almost certainly not even stroked against by the imagined "Spectre" of "The Law" - they just take their knives along with them, take out their knives and USE THEM!
They laugh at Laws! That's what thugs do just before breaking them Laws and that's what gives them the continued title of "Thugs"!
The Lawmakers' hysteria about banning knives is becoming a typically British joke!
The wish to keep people safer is commendable, but it's not good to do it by blanket-banning in a country that subscribes to the commendable notion that, (1) if the British have nuclear weapons, other countries will be seriously UNLIKELY TO ATTACK THEM and (2) if their Police Officers carry killer-grade weapons, the bad guys will be DETERRED FROM USING THEIRS. Youths learn a lot from adults, even when they are determined not to!
That same principle can be made to work for us, in the street - it did it for me, for greater than 25 years! The only blood I ever had on my knife was my own, from clumsy sharpening!
That existence of nuclear Self Defence Implements, and the existence of Police Officers' Self Defence Implements, shows that possession of equalising Self Defence Implements is, as if we need to wonder, the only good deterrent to being attacked by those offensive weapons belonging to others!
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