In their own words: why young men carry knives

My dad was stabbed to death when I was three years old. That is one of the reasons that I now carry a knife. It’s for protection. You never know who else will have one. This way, if someone is going to stab me, I will stab them first. It does not matter how tough the laws are. So many people are carrying knives, there’s always the risk that someone will pull one out on you. It’s purely protection. I wouldn’t pull mine out unless someone else pulls one on me first. I have slashed someone in the face, but I wouldn’t want to stab someone to kill them.

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