Has anyone ever actually had to use a knife for self defense?

Mundele

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One of the merits of knives we discuss is how good a weapon it would make, for self defense. Has anyone here had the misfortune of having to use a knife for self defense purposes? I never have, and hope I never will...

(but it's better to be safe than sorry)

--Matt
 
Thankfully, I never have. However, two people in my martial arts academy have had to---one is a woman. In both instances, display of the blade in a determined stance sent the aggressors packing, with no injuries to any party.

DPD.
 
I carry my dual BM42 balisongs and I have had the fortune of never having to use it in a violent manner. The most action it has ever seen is impressing my freinds.
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I have a sword in my pocket!
 
The only human flesh to ever be cut by my hands...... are my hands!
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Buzz runs off to get a bandaid........
 
My wife once used a Mora camp knife (4 inch laminated blade) to defend herself against an aggressive insect buzzing around the campfire. The insect lived, but she assured me that it would never reproduce.
 
hey NQuique, how did you use it? how much? did ou get in trouble with the law? i'm always scared i'll get arrested if i even defend myself. sounds stupid, but i don't wanna take a chance.

brandon
 
NO.
and I pray that I will never have to, and that the rest of you good people will never have to.
 
I was at a bar with my girl, one guy pull me with out warning. He then try to punch me in the face, but I give him a kick to gain space, at that point I had my afck in my hand opened and throw a blow to the chest, he was with 2 other person but when they saw that just put the arms in the air.

With the knife in one hand I pull my girl out and start running to the car as fast as I can.

For the record the guy had about 28 stitches in the chest.

It was not nice but it was him not me the one in the hospital.

I didn’t have a problem because the were no investigation, but my advice is if you can run first, get out of there as fast as you can. But if you have to use it don’t think twice.
 
NQuique -- could you please explain to me what you mean by "pull me"? It sounds to me that he grabbed your arm or shoulder and pulled you towards him, then tried to punch him. Did he exhibit a weapon? Or the other 2 guys he was with?

When did you recognize that he was with 2 potential accomplices? Do I have an accurate picture of what occurred?

Golly, this may sound silly, but if you lived in the US, it almost sounds to me that maybe you should have your rights read/explained to you before you answer that!

If you saw 1 guy trying to punch you and you slashed him, am afraid in my state you'd have been guilty of at least 2nd Degree Assault, maybe 1st Degree. Exhibiting a weapon to back off 3 would-be attackers probably wouldn't ruffle too many feathers. But a slash because of a punch puts you on the wrong side of the law in many jurisdictions, I believe.

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Bugs

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NQuique - How did you confirm the 28 stitches in the guys chest? Did you have contact with this guy after the incident?

-Seth
 
I once prevented a fight with my knife.
I had been at Ft. Lewis for only a couple of days, having come from another post.
I was moving into the barracks and was making several trips back and forth from my car. As I came up the stairs I saw another Soldier walking out of my new room with one of my bags. I caught up with him and demanded my bag back. He said "come and take it back", I pulled out my Schrade LB7 and said "okay!". But before I could take one step he dropped the bag and played the whole thing off and said he was "only joking around".
Later I found out that he was a bully and a barracks-thief, especially to the guys straight out of Basic and AIT.
 
There I was, sitting in my upstairs living room, Cold Steel LTC kukri in hand and watching the t.v. I had it because I liked packing it around, once in a while I'd cut something with it, and I thought hey, ya never know....

Well, suddenly this terrified woman RUNS into my house, crying, and saying "he's going to hurt me, call the police, don't let him get me...", stuff like that. I stood up and sure enough, in comes the boyfriend who likes to hit girlfriends. He only looked at the woman and pleaded with her, but he never got further than just inside my door. I put one hand on his chest, gently pushed him towards the door and told him to get out. It was at that point I noticed that I had a kukri in my hand!!! I'm not sure if the guy looked at the blade or not, but he left and was picked up by the cops.

Thinking "Hey, ya never know" may have made all of the difference in this case.

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Bugs, this doesn't sound any silly. "Don't draw me in tavern!" - these words were etched on medieval warrior's swords pretty frequently. Have something changed in this matter recently?

NQuique, I'm visiting bars pretty rarely but even more rarely I am not armed with handgun. In fact I go armed practically always. Well, in such situation should I draw my handgun and shoot the fellow down? Please take into consideration that the knife is deadly weapon as well as gun, here is no difference in its use results.

To do not provoke disturbance to do not have to defend yourself - isn't it the better solution?
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bugs3x:
Golly, this may sound silly, but if you lived in the US, it almost sounds to me that maybe you should have your rights read/explained to you before you answer that!
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And I'm quite sure that if you (NQuique) lived in Finland, you were suited about grievous bodily injury (meaning penalty or even suspended sentence - if you were first timer).
In addition to that you should have been liable to damage for the guy pulled you. He would have got clean slate.
Also, if you had licenses to carry arms, you may have lost them. (You had dangerous cutting weapon with you - it's illegal.)
But - different country, different laws, I presume...
 
Yes!!!!! A kid got his pant leg all wrapped upin his bike chain to the point it stopped his circulation and the chain was cutting into his leg. A BM to the rescue!!!!!! in NH lingo 10-79, 10-75 (matter resolved, resuming patrol)

 
I have told this before. but I'll tell it again. I am an overweight and arthritic middle-aged bureaucrat who was going home one winter evening some 10 years ago when I got onto one of the elevators that carry passengers down to the Mezzanine levels of the DC Metro subway system. That is where you can buy tickets and where you have to pass through the gates to get to the escalators to go down to the trains. After I got onto the elevator, two young and very fit punks gont on just as the dors were closing, blocking me from leaving. One started to move toward me while the other placed his hand near the "Emergency Stop" button on hte elevator controls. I could only assume that they intended to mug me, so I reached into my pocket and produced a Spyderco Police, all steel, that I opened with a "Spydie drop", more spectacular than tactical. I did this because I really did not want to be cutting anyone, and I hoped to scare them off. I was lucky that it worked. They let the elevator go to the bottom, got off and RAN up the escalators, back to the street, while I, knees shaking, covertly put my knife away and went on home. I have since found out that there is a 3" blade limit in DC, so I am extremely fortunate that push did not come to slice that evening.

WORD OF WARNING: just because I had the good fortune to get away with it, DO NOT count on being able to bluff your way out of a situation simply by flashing a kniffe. When you draw a knife, you have escalated the affair to deadly force anda you had best be prepared to deal with that, physically, mentally, and legally. The scene from Crocodile Dundee is most unlikely to repeat itself very often. I got away with it mostly, I suspect, because they punks had not expected a shambling, cane-carrying bureaucrat in the Federal center area of DC to suddenly produce a 4.5" knife in a very tight environment, and it scared the living Hell out of them.

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"But a slash because of a punch puts you on the wrong side of the law in many jurisdictions,"

Who but the Amazing Kreskin knows if someone's intention is to just beat them up instead of to death? If he was in fear of serious bodily harm, then it was all cool. The JBTs and Government Persercutor's might think differently, but it would still beat the heck of your girlfriend being gang raped and you laying in a coma.

"To do not provoke disturbance to do not have to defend yourself - isn't it the better solution?"

Having a member of three person group attack you is not a provocation on your part.
 
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