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  • I’ve been in street fights, bar brawls, boxing rings, mma cages, ice hockey brawls (my favourite), even tried out fencing and HEMA out and you don’t come across as someone with experience and you just admitted as much.

    Do you think someone is going to swagger up to you and announce they’re attacking you? Are you going to pull your knife on every man that approaches? Oh you’ll only do it for the scary looking guys? Jeffrey Dahmer didn’t look real scary did he now.

    There’s a solid chance you won’t even manage to draw your knife if genuinely attacked.

    A few things to consider.

    • Where are you going to keep it?
    • How long does it take to pull out?
    • Is it in a purse that an assailant may be targetting for theft?
    • On your person where its more easily visible and detected by law enforcement?
    • If carrying a knife is legal… you’re probably somewhere where carrying a gun is legal. Why bother with a knife if thats the case?

    And on the legality side if carrying knives and guns is legal… WTF are you going to do when you pull your little pocket knife out and someone ventilates you with .45?

    you just can’t acknowledge the fact that a short girl like me can actually disembowel a bigger and taller guy when being attacked.

    I once had to get a steak knife off a toddler to stop them taking their own eye out and didn’t come away unscathed, so sure, you’re probably mildly more dangerous than a toddler.

    The toddler was fine btw.

    Knives are dangerous, potentially illegal to carry and adding a knife to a situation is very likely to escalate it, and if you’ve got time to draw a knife you’ve got time to run and/or get help.

    You sound insecure and I hope you can sort that out.