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Originally Posted by lumberjim
you take one of those to work every day? cmon....really?
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I take a knife with me everywhere I go - have since I was a kid. I grew up in the South and now live in Virginia so guns and knives are pretty unremarkable.
New York's finest confiscated my 5.75" Benchmade Stryker while I was in line to tour Ellis Island a few years ago. The officer asked me where I was from. I told him I was from Virginia and he told me that having a knife like that in New York was a felony. I respectfully replied that when everything is made to be a felony then nothing is a felony.
I think its sad when sporting a personal knife is characterized as a crime worthy of a felony conviction. Ironic since I have worked in DC for the last nine years and carry a knife with me every single day. I don't hide it either - the clip is always sticking out of my left front pocket. Folks are so used to seeing it that they don't even ask about it. But when and if they do, I take it out and show it to them.
Felony. Sheesh.