The death of the pocketknife

[Roscoe]

I must say that I carry a handmade Bill Pease folder for when I'm dressed up and a Benchmade Automatic for work...read on......Roscoe


There was a time when the average boy, and the man he became, carried a pocket knife as a matter of course
. As we have become more urban and less rural, many citizens have lost touch with the need to carry a knife. You see these pacified, civilized, emasculated citizens tearing at vending machine packages of potato chips with their teeth or their car keys. That would be comical, if not a bit sad... except that the stakes are a lot higher than being unable to open a Christmas present or a bag of pretzels. In some cases, the lack of the most basic technology results in the death of a human being.

This cultural trend has serious negative consequences. It is also feeding on itself. The vilification of the pocketknife has been an obvious trend in popular culture for some time now. In 2006, Mark Fritz, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote a hit piece called "Deadly pocketknives become a $1 billion business." The purpose of the article was to demonize the "tactical knife" industry in the United States, portraying the knives sold as the deadly implements of Navy SEALs, and the Walter Mittys purchasing them as dangerous, armed time bombs just hunting for the right McDonalds in which to run amok.

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