Ever had to use a knife in a self defence situation?

WilliePete's post may be the best thing I've read in years.

Holy cats, my ribs hurt bad.
 
Pretty much like everyone else here, I've never used it in SD.

I've been in SD situations situations before, but always took care not to draw. It's a truly last resort for only the WORST of scenarios. "Win" or "lose", it won't be pretty.
 
There are ways to use a blade defensivly. You need to disable your attacker, not kill him. Severing forearm tendons will take the fight out of anyone and also allow you to say that you did not use anything related to deadky force. Think stop first.
 
Larry S. said:
Soooo....let me see if I get where you're coming from. If you were faced with a threat of deadly force and had the means to defend yourself with equal (deadly) force, you would find it preferable to either respond with a lower level of force or none at all, thereby greatly increasing the chance your assailant wins and possibly ends your life, and somehow in this scenario you wouldn't think you had anything to do with your own possible demise and therefore didn't "judge" who's left standing?:confused:

Larry S.
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well...to be honest...i've never really heard of a story where the only option was to kill. come on. it just doesn't happen. you guys need to lay off the Guns & Ammo letters. i'd give em my wallet or turn around and run. i'd rather not live with the memory of taking someone's life. and i wouldn't get into a fight with someone and then stab them and call it self defense. i would exhaust every other possibility before applying leathal force.
 
Situational awareness will keep you out of trouble, be aware of your surrounding and have at least one alternate way out of where ever. In over 20 years of carrying a knife I have only pulled it once when I really felt threatened. It never got beyond drawing it out and the other guy decided a broken bottle was not the best item to have and ran.

Having a way out is your best option if you can't talk to defuse the situation. Running beats getting cut
 
benchmademan said:
well...to be honest...i've never really heard of a story where the only option was to kill. come on. it just doesn't happen. you guys need to lay off the Guns & Ammo letters. i'd give em my wallet or turn around and run. i'd rather not live with the memory of taking someone's life. and i wouldn't get into a fight with someone and then stab them and call it self defense. i would exhaust every other possibility before applying leathal force.
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WOOOOOO.....WOOOO..WOOO!
Next stop.....La-La Land!!
IMHO YOU need to wake up and smell reality!
You must not get out much, ever read a newspaper????? Even CNN occasionally reports on a justifiable homicide story!
Oh, and you don't need to choose to kill.....sometimes use of deadly force just ends up that way. I'll tell the jury I was just trying to stop my attacker....you tell'em you were trying to kill him!
 
A friend of mine who I believe told me this recent story. He was attending a night class at the city university. After class he went to the washroom in the basement before heading home. As he went in he noticed some guy standing outside in the hall, didn't think much about it. While he was releaving himself at the urinal, he thought he heard and seen more than one individual in the stalls. As he looked back there was a huge guy at the urinal next to him with his huge dick in his hand asking my friend if he liked what he saw. My friend finished, pulled his zipper up, pulled out his Edgetech Paragee and said " I want no trouble" as he walked out, then ran up the stairs and out of the building. He reported it to the police and university management. He now calls his knife a homo repellent.
 
Well I have never used mine in SD, but there was one time that I wish I had one with me for just that. I was in a bathroom stall taking care of my business, and a guy in the stall next to me stuck his head under the stall and smiled at me. The he stuck his unit under and told me to do the same for my pleasure. I ran out of the bathroom and left the mall. I called the security and told them of the situation. I would rather run from the trouble than confront it. I would confront it if I had to though. Since then I have carried a knife with me at all times. I was in HS at the time, and should have kicked his unit when presented, but I was in shock at what was happening and ran. The best thing to do if you as me.
 
Besides the pain factor that you will have the police have a hard time with "I was only defending myself" SD is bullsh** in this state of NJ and I am sure a few others.
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Precisely why we Confederates once tried to disassociate ourselves from N.J. and a few others.
 
I think if you can toss it from hand to hand while in a good crouch with a real mean look, you can pull it off.

I've seen that in movies and it always works.

:eek:
 
The greatest thing about this thread isn't the arguments over legal or tactical matters, it is by far responses concerning bee slashing and shark riding. Tears of laughter.Thats all i can say. These responses make me think about how sh*tty having to defend yourself with a knife would actually be. Even if you survived and killed the attacker, you would have nightmares for years. I doubt the tactical battle would be nearly as difficult as coping with the fact that you eviscerated another human and watched him breath his last breaths bleeding on the pavement. In terms of "tactical" (as stupid a word as I've ever heard, seeing as how it is so overused and how people use it to try to make death-dealing sound clean and calculating) I think I'll quote Val Kilmer in Spartan when he said :
"Don't you teach them knife fighting. You teach them how to kill. That way when theyre up against someone trained in knife fighting, they send his soul to hell."
 
For all the truely humorous responses .....thank you.

For those others that crossed that mall ninja line in the sand.....please tell me the color of the sky in your world.

I am just waiting for Paul "Shadow" Basil to post and fill us in on the many tales of covert deanimation and controller blood splatter.

710BMFAN
 
get a freaking ccw
first of all pulling out a handgun will scare the sh!t out of most attackers
second if you do end up shooting one hit will knock him down and keep him down.
 
spyder8 said:
get a freaking ccw
first of all pulling out a handgun will scare the sh!t out of most attackers
second if you do end up shooting one hit will knock him down and keep him down.
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did you happen to read the title in this thread? we're talking knives! :rolleyes:


abe
 
i've used my knives as a deterrent, but never as a weapon.

sometimes i'll make sure everyone can see i'm carrying a cuda MAXX, just to avoid trouble in certain areas.

however, if I ended up getting in a fight, that blade stays closed unless they pull one first.
 
Larry S. said:
WOOOOOO.....WOOOO..WOOO!
Next stop.....La-La Land!!
IMHO YOU need to wake up and smell reality!
You must not get out much, ever read a newspaper????? Even CNN occasionally reports on a justifiable homicide story!
Oh, and you don't need to choose to kill.....sometimes use of deadly force just ends up that way.
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yes...i read the newspaper... i watch the news... just because it's 'self-defense' doesn't mean that it's right. just because it's "justifiable" doesn't mean it was right or nescisary. it just means it was ruled legal. i'm not suprised you don't get it. honestly, i don't care. some people actually dream about the opportunity to pull out a tactical folder or a hangun and 'defend themselves'. others hope that they'll never even come close. some proactively avoid confrontations that lead to violence, some pick fights and carry knives in case their actions lead them to need weapons.

i'm sure there are a few very unlikely situations in which force is nescisary. but you've got to be a fool to believe every 'self-defense' story you read in Soldier of Fortune.

Larry S. said:
I'll tell the jury I was just trying to stop my attacker....you tell'em you were trying to kill him
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as i've said...i wouldn't try to kill him. if there was no choice but to exert deadly force i wouldn't candycoat the truth. i would just tell it.
 
ayzianboy said:
i've used my knives as a deterrent, but never as a weapon.

sometimes i'll make sure everyone can see i'm carrying a cuda MAXX, just to avoid trouble in certain areas.

however, if I ended up getting in a fight, that blade stays closed unless they pull one first.
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you sound like a guy who has a lowered honda :D haha, couldn't help that one. but seriously bro, i don't see how making sure everyone sees that you're packing a large blade in tough areas would deter the type of criminals who would attack a man.
 
I'm not a wild-eyed loony-tune looking to inflict bodily harm on my fellow man. I've never even been in a fight unless you count a couple of punches thrown into a neighbor kid when I was 10 or so over him dropping my new LEATHER football into a mudpuddle!
Just someone who wants the odds in his favor if the situation ever presents itself that there isn't a backdoor available or there isn't time to access it or there just isn't any way out except to stand and defend myself against a threat of severe bodily harm or worse.
Most of my "argument" stems from inaccurate word usage and semantics anyway.....when will they learn......:(
 
I deleted my post earlier because I thought it to be really cocky and abrasive, but now I see it's needed.

Why are you people showing sympathy for criminals and miscreants? They deserve no safety, nor any cuddling from society when they get burned from playing with fire. And why does society value the criminals life at all?


I've met men who felt worse about killing enemy soldiers at 150 yards then they did killing a criminal at 2 feet.
 
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