What’s wrong is that too much of our society is developing a moral panic about carrying knives. It doesn’t help that the knife in question is black with an angular design and therefore scary looking to the pearl-clutchers despite being something that appears to be an reasonable everyday carry.
The article says they were searching people at Central, which isn’t even an unreasonable place to have a pocketknife on you. I’ve carried my pocketknives through Central plenty of times without even considering not bringing them.
What’s wrong is that too much of our society is developing a moral panic about carrying knives. It doesn’t help that the knife in question is black with an angular design and therefore scary looking to the pearl-clutchers despite being something that appears to be an reasonable everyday carry.
The article says they were searching people at Central, which isn’t even an unreasonable place to have a pocketknife on you. I’ve carried my pocketknives through Central plenty of times without even considering not bringing them.