I guess I grew up in an age when a man was expected to carry a good clasp knife in his pocket, and I honestly do not understand all of the paranoia and fear around them now.
This anti-knife attitude with the Scout Troops is especially weird, but there has been a big shift away from letting kids do anything woodsy too.
The last time I had anything to do with a scouts event the parents were terrified by the idea of their kids leaving the sidewalk.

I will mention that I started noticing attitudes shift at about the same time as the Rambo movies were promoting Rambo type knives.
Why people should find that scarier than Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho with the kitchen knife I will never quite understand either.
Yet for some reason people never started calling for bans on kitchen knives did they?

A lot of women regard good paring, fillet and chef knives as great things to receive as giftware and are proud to have them in their kitchens.
A lot of women like having their own clasp knives and hunting knives too.
My ex used to swipe my pocket knives and put them in her purse so she could slice apples and stuff for our son. She would "find" them for me when they got dull. That was usually just after the one I was carrying had gone missing instead.