Awwwww.....this is cheatin’! Not folders. LoL
Why on earth if you live in a state where you can get a carry license soooo easy, would you wan too carry. knife instead of a gun for personal defense????????
If you try to use a knife and the other guy has a gun, you're doo-doo is very weak. It ain't gonna comet in your favor. Ever since 1957 and Horace Smith and Danial Wesson campout with the first self contained metallic cartridge, the small handgun made the Bowie knife obsolete. If you try to use a knife against a guy with another knife, you're in for a lot if stitches, it you win, and a nice cool slab in the morgue if you lose.
Look guys, I'm no sugar ninja, only a guy who survived a crappy life trying to grow up to adulthood in a inner city neighborhood in D.C. where street violence was common. I saw a real knife fight once. The two guys did a g great job of butchering each other and one died on the scene and the other went to the ER and time intensive care to see if he'd make it. After seeing that, I don't even carry a knife that could be used in a fight. I don't think the little Swiss Army knife in the coin pocket of my jeans would be much good.
On the other hand, I did see real live shootings. Plural. Unlike a knife wound, that didn't have the shock effect of a bullet, I never saw anyone who got a hit anywhere in the center of the body that didn't go down right then. Even small caliber's seems to have that effect if the bullet got into the center of mass. But I've seen people get cut and fight like the devil, and even get stabbed in a fight and think it was a punch until after the fight and they discovered they were bleeding. Knives just don't have that fast effect like a gun shot does.
They say God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal. Not Spyderco, Benchmade, or any other tacticool ninja knives that are sold on too much fantasy of mono e mono and John Rambo.
What a knife is good for is intimidating a mugging victim into quietly giving up his wallet. Or his car. It's a great criminal weapon of intimidation that is cheap enough to be tossed down the next sewer or dumpster as you run past. Same for a box cutter. Cheap, scary, and disposable if you're a felon with a record and can't be caught with a weapon.
What I saw a lot of grown men in D.C. carrying for personal defense was some sort of blunt force trauma tool. Stout walking stick wit brass head, Crescent wrench in back pocket, piece of sawn off pool stick under seat of car or bar, ball peen hammer nearby or on floor of car. My own mentor in the gang I was in, Ray, had been in prison and couldn't carry a gun or large knife. But he was a motorcycle mechanic by trade and was employed so, and he always had his wrench in his back pocket for "working on my bike, man." He also carried a nice walking stick with a brass lion head and he used it once to beat the ever lovin dog poo out of a guy he had a fight with in Gaffney's Bar on 14th street. The other guy pulled a knife and Ray destroyed him. Other guys knife never drew any blood.
Even in anti gun D.C. people who really wanted to defend themselves got a small gun from the neighborhood gun guy. It was the number one choice over everything else. Second was some kind of blunt force club. Knives were seen as a punks weapon.
I had access to self-contained metallic cartridges prior to 1957. Probably Beta versions..... Ever since 1957 and Horace Smith and Danial Wesson campout with the first self contained metallic cartridge, the small handgun made the Bowie knife obsolete.........
My 3rd favorite is a Gerber prodigy which is a fixed blade. It comes with a nice molle sheath. Mine has a bunch of burrs and grind marks and stuff so it's not perfect but it's a lot of stuff for the money.What happened to 3rd and 4th favorite?