I haven't read all the posts, but want to vent in a way about knives. I am a post-retirement guy and have always carried a pocket knife with another fixed blade in the car trunk bag. It disturbs me a great deal when I see the types of knives that are most available these days in gas station shops ..etc. Many of them are too narrow to be useful as a camp knife or survival knife. Not for cooking either. Narrow, straight, and not so flexible. They seem to be designed for stabbing !!

Then again there are big Bowi knives. Not good for camping, cooking or any other purpose but fighting. It seems when I look for smallish multi-purpse knife, it is the hardest to find.

The occasional stabbing crimes are not helping to make make people knife-friendly. And I have already heard negative comments on my pocket knife when I had to use it at work.

OK, I have vented.
Carry on.