The Back up Knife
Sure, you carry a gun everyday, along with keys, a mobile device, and other items, but what about that all-too-often needed item that we rarely think about. Yes, the humble knife. Odds are, if you are a gun person, you are a knife person as well.
There are a million and one uses for the average sharp pocketknife. I grew up in the South and it was a passage of manhood to learn how to safely operate a folding penknife. By the time I was six, I was issued an old Barlow folder by my grandfather and expected to keep up with it. This of course led to a few sliced fingers, trimmed leaves, one whittled bar of soap, a cut hose (it was an old hose anyway), and a few initials carved in various live and dead pieces of wood. However I grew past that stage and have carried a knife ever since.
Moving into adulthood, I have carried a knife both for utilitarian purposes as well as for last-ditch self-defense…
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