Wearing Kirpan in public..

[S1ngh]

lol..

hey.. What our rehat says about the minimum size of kirpan that sikhs should wear.. ?

My kirpan is pretty big :D

[Mkhalsa]

You can wear a 12 inch kirpan under your shirt pretty well without anyone even knowing its there, dont worry about the laws, just wear it gupt.

I totally agree with this, this is exactly what i was gonna say..

also, I wear illegal shastars all the time wherever i go, even in stores, nobody says anything, of course im smart about it, i dont parade them around..

You can wear you kirpan anywhere, just dont make a big deal of it or show it off...

I beleive your panj told you at least 9" so you should stick to that :nihungsmile:

[Hum Paapi]

my punj didnt specify any size.... so i just wear a 5 inch one around....and wats the point of wearin a big shri sahib if you dont know how to use it..most singhs/singhnis that wear it dont even know how to use it...it defeats the sole purpose of a kirpan, it then becomes more of a symbol rather than a weapon....weather its 3 inchs or 12 inches...if u know how to use it, u can do damage regardless of the size..

bhull chuk maf

-daas

[Mkhalsa]

Hum paapi.. lets say you are a singhnee and you have a 9" kirpan, you know it comes out, and its pretty clean, but have never used it, and have never taken any gatka courses (but have seen people do gatka).

Lets say you are walking home one night around 9pm in the big city, its dark. Some guy in a mask comes up behind you intending to do something bad to you. You pull out your 9" sri sahib, guru sahibs light.

The attacker sees you with a big thing looking like a butcher knife, hes going to get scared, if not, stab at him with it.. 90% of attackers are oppurtunists, just seeing a shastar will scare them away and they will know thats not an oppurtinity.

if you were to pull out a small 4" or 5" kirpan they might think its a swiss army knife and will probably laugh, or try to take it. size does matter, especially if you dont know how to use it.

[Son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji]

many a times you don't even have to put your hands on your sri sahib. People get scared just by look!

hah

How would a small kirpan help you in such a situation?

Just because u don't know the 'proper' way to use a kirpan, that doesn't mean you get to take the easy way out.

[Jassika]

kirpan is quite an interesting thing. most people that do wear it keep it under their clothes. i find that kind of pointless because the whole point of it is for a nishani that u are sikh. knowing u have it on doesnt tell u much because u already know how much of a sikh u are inside. i say u should either wear it outside or not wear it at all. also that necklace with the kirpan on it is pretty stupid too

[Son of Guru Gobind Singh Ji]

yeah, I agree about the necklace.

but, how is wearing ur kirpan under the shirt pointless? Can you write more on this?

Kirpan can still be used in all way when you wear it under ur shirt, except for showing off to scare someone.

[Jassika]

but isn't the purpose of a kirpan to be the uniform of a sikh? how is is supposed to be "used"?

[Mkhalsa]

kirpan has many many purposes, not just for uniform..

[Jassika]

kirpan has many many purposes, not just for uniform..

like self defence? well i wouldn't want to use that for self defence. i would rather use a punch or maybe something like pepper spray. please explain the many purposes