I see quite a few good ideas on this thread, some I am going to take to my own EDC that I keep forgetting about. But I am also seeing a lack of the word KNIFE in most of these lists.
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, we should be able to teach our children how to carry and use a knife responsibly.
I agree wholeheartedly. But, the problem in scouts is that our children includes kids raised by other people. Sometimes that means you are going to have problems, not just with the kids, but with the parents as well. If a young kid carries a knife because it's on some list and doesn't have any training or experience that knife could just end up exacerbating the situation for the child.
Plus, if he does get rescued you'll end up getting sued by the parents because the knife the kid carried (on your recommendation or because it was on your list) endangered his welfare by hindering his survival (due to the self-inflicted gash on his hand). It's a shame, but that is what we deal with today.
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