• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    I carried a pocket knife almost everyday in high school and never once had a problem. If you aren’t waving it around, threatening people, or overall being an idiot most people never even notice.

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      Yeah, especially 16-18 when I was working, I usually always had a pocket knife or multi tool on me because they would come in handy. That said, we didn’t have metal detectors or strange prison like schools like we do now apparently.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      I carried my Schrade Switch-It every day in the little seam pocket of my carpenter’s jeans (as was the style at the time) and the only flak I ever caught for it was one day the principal spotting it and telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.

      I told him he had my scout’s honor that he would never see me with a pager so long as I lived. Yes, this sailed right over his head. I still didn’t get into trouble, though, which is surprising given the sheer variety of other stupid and highly spurious things that somehow got me in trouble in school.

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        The closest i came to getting caught is in biology i etched some notches into a toothpick to work an experiment easier. Another student asked how i altered the toothpick, i offered him my knife and he said something along the lines of “just notch mine and i won’t tell anyone what I saw”.

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        telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.

        Oh sir it’s not a pager… it’s a vibrator

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      Depends when and where you grew up, probably. We had to pass through metal detectors every day and attempting to bring a concealed weapon would have been pretty dumb.

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        Yes these days it may have been different. We barely had camera coverage. For one of my birthdays a friend gifted me an 8" hunting knife in the stairwell at school. I thanked him but did ask to maybe at least wait til the end of the day or a weekend next time cause that knife is harder to justify carrying than a folding blade.

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      Times, they have changed. I was the same, as were most of the people I went to school with. Pocket knifes are just handy, I still carry one most of the time.

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    Real pro tip, you can glue a crayon sharpener AND a pencil sharpener to the stalk. You can also roll up a cheat sheet and put it in the barrel as people tend to not look in there.

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      Sniper towers. All over town. Rooftop emplacements “You’re kind ain’t welcome here”. They want to go back in time, remind ICE what that can be like. Warning shots only though, of course. Unless they don’t back off.

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    In my last year of high school the following oppressive regulations were imposed: no knives over 3 1/2", no animals guns or smoking in the building. Somehow this did not prevent me from getting high in the library with a kitten and revolver most days

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    This is a bad idea. The placement of the angled foregrip on that AR makes me think it’s a pistol-length upper. This knife handle is functioning as a vertical foregrip, which is a felony without the proper tax stamp. If you bring this knife to school, you’re going to be charged with a felony.