Who here carries weapons on a regular/semi-regular basis?

[WitchOfEndor]

I carry a knife on me & if I go into my old neighborhood to visit my old friends, there is "something" in the glove box as well.

[TheWomanMonster]

I used to carry a knife. Not these days though.

[Stoirmeacha]

People get mugged and stuff around here too much, so I carry a knife on me, and carry it in my hand when I am walking around at night alone or downtown.

[WanderlustAfar]

Originally Posted by WitchJezebel

Maybe because I'm a woman, but I never get searched in the subway or ferry terminal. Or it could be that I'm dressed for work, carrying a totebag and a book... yeah, I look menacing! Maybe I should rethink where I carry them just in case. Now you've got me all paranoid.

I roamed the NYC subways for 3+ years and never got searched, and I was always dressed like what older people call a 'hooligan'. And I'm female.

I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS carry either a knife (when I have one) or an Exacto razor (in a pinch). I have every reason to do so; stuff doesn't just happen at 3am in Brooklyn. I've been attacked in the middle of Manhattan at 42nd and 8th Ave.

I considered for a really long time going to get a concealed license, but then I always remind myself that I hate guns. My lawyer suggested it, but I'd rather go take a bangin' ninja class or something and only need my fists.

[Twig]

I sometimes carry a folding razor knife. I'm a maintence man and it's a handy tool. Use it almost daily...to clean my figernails

I live in one of the lowest crime areas in Oregon so defense is not an issue.

[Solya]

I have never carried a weapon around before and I'm not going to in the future. For me, that would be the ultimate sign of not feeling safe in my environment. I think it's also due to it not being the norm in my home country, though. Lots of people here just don't own or carry guns. I didn't grow up with the idea that I'd ever need one.

[brymble]

I carry a small pocket knife. Although to be honest, I think of it more as a tool for opening stubborn packages than a weapon, but I suppose it could be one.

[Caitlin.ann]

Originally Posted by Solya

I have never carried a weapon around before and I'm not going to in the future. For me, that would be the ultimate sign of not feeling safe in my environment. I think it's also due to it not being the norm in my home country, though. Lots of people here just don't own or carry guns. I didn't grow up with the idea that I'd ever need one.

I think it definitely is a cultural thing. I was raised around guns, knives, the works for sport and protection. It was as normal to see a weapon as it was to see furniture in the living room for me.

Thanks for your perspective.

[Corvis Canis Latrans]

Originally Posted by brymble

I carry a small pocket knife. Although to be honest, I think of it more as a tool for opening stubborn packages than a weapon, but I suppose it could be one.

*Nods*

When I worked for a publishing co., we were forever opening and closing boxes, and even after they bought a ten pack of box cutters, they all disappeared within a week (makes me wonder if for whatever reason someone was keeping them, but whatever, they were still gone).

My pocket knife got a lot of use during the two years I worked there.

[hijynx]

Originally Posted by Sacredsin

I think it definitely is a cultural thing. I was raised around guns, knives, the works for sport and protection. It was as normal to see a weapon as it was to see furniture in the living room for me.

Thanks for your perspective.

This is how I was raised too. My parents/grandparents kept firearms in their homes, and I was taught how to handle them/shoot/be responsible at a young age. Hell, my mother to this day keeps a snubnose revolver in her purse.

I come from a line of (strangely, very liberal) gun nuts.