I saw Lenard’s post Best Pocket Tool, and thought I’d put in my opinion.

I’m a dedicated Victorinox Super Tinker or Deluxe Tinker guy. My most used tool is actually the scissors, so that is a must for me.

I work in an office and find Leatherman tools to be too big and bulky to ride in a pocket. If I’m carrying a Leatherman, it’s in a belt sheath on a sturdy jeans belt. I wanted to like the K2, but for a $100 knive, I wanted a better quality of blade steel.

What I have come to carry most of the time is a utility blade multi-tool.

There are a number on the market grom high end EDC makers, but I can’t justify the price.

My go-to are the Outdoor Edge Slidewinder and the Milwaukee Fastback.

Both have a utility blade, flat head, philips head, and bottle opener.

As you can see, the Slidewinder is tiny, it would make a good money clip (both have pocket clips).

Even if I’m carrying a larger knife, like a Spyderco, I’ll carry the Slidewinder because it’s nice to not worry about dulling an edge cutting open cardboard boxes and Amazon packages.

The Fastback is more of s traditional utility knife. It fits a double ended 1/4 inch driver bit, which is easily replaced at and hardware store. It also carries a spare blade.

The only downside to the Slidewinder is that changing the blade requires a T6 Torx. But it makes up for it in convenient size.

One other tool I’ve come to like is the Havalon Evolve multi-tool.

Its about the size of the Leatherman Skeketool, but I like it more.

It uses replaceable scaple blades, like other Havalon knives.

It also uses 1/4 inch standard bits, and carries a flat and philips on board.

As a tool designed for hunters, it has a skinning hook. I’m not a hunter, so I modified my tool my creating a tungsten carbide tip glass breaker that fits into the 1/4 inch driver socket. The skinning hook also makes a great seat belt cutter, so combined with the glass breaker, I turned ot into a self rescue tool.

The blade exchange works well.

Since the scaple blades and factory Leatherman blades are both 420 stainless, I’d rather just toss a replacement blade instead of sharpening a mediocre steel blade.

This is what I tend to carry, to each his own.

This is Scotland in 2024, because Europe is going back to its Jew-Hating roots.

At a rally in Edinburgh, a @PoliceScotland officer asked a Jewish bystander to hide his Star of David, to avoid “triggering” the protesters.

The police officer is clearly worried that he and his colleagues are heavily outnumbered and that these protesters could pose a threat to… pic.twitter.com/kI8As7KNCm

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) February 14, 2024

Fuck that noise.

I’m an American.

If some cop told me to hide my Jewish star to keep from triggering antiseimtes, I swear to everything good and holy, I’m to strap up like Noah MacManus, put on a Magen David the size of Flavor Flav’s fucking clock, and strut around like the Homecoming game winning QB who just fucked the prom queen.

What happens happens. They can fucking try me.

NEW: Florida deputy hears acorn hit his police car, thinks he has been shot at and then opens fire on his own patrol car with a cuffed man in the back of the car.

Unreal.

Okaloosa County deputy Jesse Hernandez convinced himself that he was not only shot at, but that he was also… pic.twitter.com/LXHx26TSMt

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 14, 2024

At least he had the decency to turn in his badge.

Cop resigns after mistaking falling acorn for gunshot, firing at unarmed suspect cuffed in patrol car

A Florida cop resigned after opening fire on an unarmed black man who was handcuffed in his patrol car — because he confused the sound of an acorn hitting the vehicle with a muffled gunshot.

Sgt. Beth Roberts, who also opened fire, was exonerated in an internal investigation and remained on the job, according to police.

The deputies had responded to a complaint from Jackson’s girlfriend, who alleged that the man had committed grand theft auto, threatened her and was in possession of multiple firearms and a silencer, according to police.

When Hernandez approached the right rear door to search the suspect again, he apparently mistook the sound of an acorn hitting the car for a gunshot and quickly reacted with potentially deadly force.

That dude had one too many energy drinks during his shift.

Just remember, that as an untrained civilian, you can’t be expected to keep a level head and not turn every misunderstanding into a shootout.  That’s why only cops should carry guns in public.

?TODAY: “Palestine” and Haiti in Maryland Allegedly Practicing Slaughter Techniques on Jews.

?Follow to stay informed.

⚠️ Instruction includes methods of beheading and optimal slicing techniques.

Maryland is facing unprecedented Jew-hate in the oddest place.

?️ In an… pic.twitter.com/mZmYTpAav7

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) February 13, 2024

As a Florida boy, I am familiar with Hatian machete fencing. It’s known as tire machete, which is Hatian-French creole for “pulling machetes.”

Hatian machetes are a type of machete often called Latin machetes. They are designed to cut sugar cane. Sugar cane is very tough, most similar to bamboo shoots.

A short Latin machete will easily take of an arm with a single blow.

I’m terrified of machete attacks.

People don’t generally survive them, and if they do, they end up with multiple prosthesis.

If someone challenges you with a machete, you pull a gun and you put bullets in them as fast as you can until they stop moving. That is the only way to walk away from a machete fight.

At least in Florida, you can carry a gun. This is Maryland, where getting a carry permit is still difficult as hell.

Everyday, I come down more and more on Constitutional Carry became watching people practice a Hatian or Rwandan style mass murder of Jews, no Jew (or anyone else) should have to wait for months to get a carry permit.

SHOCK VIDEO: Female Cops UNLOAD on woman inside Houston apartment during burglary call

• The Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) in Houston, Texas, released body camera footage showing deputies opening fire through a window while responding to a reported break-in.

• The… pic.twitter.com/qHzmmpnpsv

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 13, 2024

Eboni Pouncy, identified as a friend of the apartment’s resident, sustained five gunshot wounds to her leg and torso during the incident.

Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Pouncy, said the video is evidence of “unnecessary and excessive force.”

I’d agree completely.

Police should not be allowed to shoot through a barrier into a house or anything else.

Maybe, just maybe, I’d allow it if they were fired on through the barrier first.

These cops shot through blinds. How could they see what they were shooting at?

How did they identify the target?

They could have killed an entire family just spraying bullets through a curtain covered window.

Then there is this fact.

As an American citizen, I have an absolute right to walk around inside my house with a gun. A cop peeking in my window shouldn’t have the ability to blast my ass through the glass because he saw me with a gun in my own house.

This was utterly insane and dangerous.

This was a bad shoot and the cops should go to prison for it.

This happened over Super Bowl weekend, so I heard nothing about it until today.

Lakewood Church shooting: AR-15 had ‘Palestine’ sticker, antisemitic writings recovered, police say

A sticker saying “Palestine” was on the AR-15 rifle a woman used to open fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, injuring two, including her son, according to police

Some antisemitic writings have been recovered, but a motive behind the Sunday afternoon shooting has not been determined, according to police.

“We do believe that there was a familial dispute that has taken place between her ex-husband and her ex-husband’s family,” some of whom are Jewish, police said.

Right…

Because family disputes with an ex-husband who has some Jewish family naturally precipitates antisemitic writings and a support for Palestine in the middle of a resurgence of antisemitism following the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

I’m calling bullshit.

The suspect, 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno, entered the church with her 7-year-old son, and she may have pointed her weapon at a security officer to force her way into the church, police said.

Moreno opened fire with the AR-15 at 1:55 p.m., police said.

Two off-duty officers fired back, striking the suspect, police said. She was pronounced dead at 2:07 p.m., police said.

Doug Williams, special agent in charge of the FBI Houston field office, stressed that the “number of casualties and victims would have been much higher” without the off-duty officers’ “heroic” actions.

That was a 12 minute response time.

How much longer would it have been for the police to respond from a 9-11 call?

The FBI special agent is absolutely right, two armed people in the church saved lives.

Shit is getting crazy out there.

Antisemitism is off the charts and the Left is becoming more violent by the day.

Everywhere our families congregate, we should be armed to stop things like this as quickly as possible.

EXCLUSIVE: Video of this robbery on January 29 near Long and Lawrence around 4:15 AM.

Multiple armed males get out of the car as a woman was walking along Lawrence Ave and rob her at gunpoint for almost 2 minutes.

The woman tries to flag down cars and even a CTA bus and no one… https://t.co/AgbuPF4a5g pic.twitter.com/jlB9BkuScu

— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) February 5, 2024

ABC Chicago gives more details.

GROUP ROBS WOMAN IN JEFFERSON PARK, RETURNS TO BEAT HER AFTER NO ONE STOPS TO HELP: VIDEO

It happened on Jan. 29 around 4:30 a.m. on West Lawrence Avenue near Long Avenue in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

Within a few strides, a dark sedan screeched along the sidewalk, and four people bailed out and surrounded her.

Then, the four people, who police said were armed with weapons, shoved, manhandled and stripped the 35-year-old woman of her personal property.

For 120 seconds, they pushed and patted down the young woman, riffling her pockets and bags she had been carrying.

They piled back in the sedan and speed off, leaving the woman collecting herself and whatever they left on the ground.

Then, as a city bus approached, the woman frantically tried to flag it down. The bus never so much as paused.

Still, it gets worse. What appears to be the very same car of armed offenders returned for a replay.

Three offenders leapt out and surrounded her for a second time, this time delivering a blow to her head and another 60 seconds of physical intimidation.

Her panicked waves for help were ignored by two more passing drivers.

Why did they attack her again?

Because these are savages and they enjoyed hurting a defenseless woman.

Why did other people, including a municipal bus driver, ignore her?

Ask the ghost of Kitty Genovese.

The lesson, however, is clear.

You are on your own.

Nobody is going to help you.

Even if you give up everything of monetary value, these savages will still hurt you for fun.

Be prepared to defend yourself.