Gad,
Non lockbacks too dangerious? How did we survive in the scouts 30+ years ago when NO ONE carried a lockback - we had the old "5 blade" boyscout knives, in carbon steel. You learned - if there is pressure on the blade, it doesn't fold, don't pull back on it

Sigh

And my troop never bothered with offical Totting chip cards - when the Scoutmaster/JASM/Sr Patrol Leader said "He's ready" - you were ready , but then again, most of us had a pocket knife we carried every day BEFORE we got to the boy scout level.

That reminds me - time to teach my 9 YO daughter how to sharpen a knife - and to get her a pocket knife for her next birthday. By 10 YO, it was MY chore to keep all the smaller kitchen knives razor sharp, and by 12 or so, ALL the kinves...

Never felt so naked as the month I spent a few back on Grand Jury - no PSK, no knife, no nothing. Gad, we were bleeping helpless (did slip a few badaides in my wallet)