Excellent reply! My people have been here since the 18th century and possibly the 17th but the blood is still there and I'm still proud of my ancestry. Ye can tak the Scot oot of Scotland but ye cannae tak Scotland oot o' the Scot!

Understandably I think some have gotten paranoid about "weapons" and sometimes let it get the better of them, when questioned about the sgain dubh I cheerfully explain the meanig of it as you did, sometimes they get it sometimes they don't. I do tend to be careful about where I wear it, for instance I'm not quite comfortable wearing the sgain dubh to church.

Slainte'

Bill