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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bed Wetter" data-source="post: 249522" data-attributes="member: 428">I don’t own any Benchmade products but I’m getting real tired of the hyper reactionary bullshit. If did even a modicum of research, you’d discover something “shady” about nearly every single company you patronize. Hells bells, I’m typing this on an iPhone made by Chinese slave labor. ARE WE GOING TO BOYCOTT CHINA? Good luck. Say goodbye to 80% of your possessions.What, all of the sudden you’re too chicken to boycott? The Chinese government is doing stuff 1,000x worse than sawing up surrendered or confiscated tools. (Remember, guns are just tools. They don’t have magical powers and are not sentient beings, which is why we’re against banning them... right????)I get it. There are some companies I won’t touch with a 20’ pole (TALKING TO YOU, DICK’S), but if you’re being intellectually honest and morally consistent, you’ll end up living out of a burlap sack... which is possibly why we have religious orders that do just that.- - - Updated - - -ETA: My EDC is a Leatherman Wingman. Now THERE is a bunch of tree hugging lefty tool makers... who make a damn fine $50 pocket tool. Of course, if we don’t want to remain peaceful because of our mutually beneficial business interest, we could always just blow each other up.Ever wonder why US and China haven’t nuked each other?</blockquote>