Have you EVER felt the need to use your knife for self defence?

I carry a knife because i cut stuff , alot!..
However when im walking into the ghetto ( AKA- rolling hills and farmland with a few wiggers).. Im glad to know its there.. just in case... If the dude had a gun.. I would throw my Mudd at him and hope the sheer weight of the knife would knock him out
 
trimcut123 said:
I carry a knife because i cut stuff , alot!..
However when im walking into the ghetto ( AKA- rolling hills and farmland with a few wiggers).. Im glad to know its there.. just in case... If the dude had a gun.. I would throw my Mudd at him and hope the sheer weight of the knife would knock him out
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hah that's funny right there. Those big knives should make excellent bricks!
 
I carry a knife, kubaton and a 21-inch ASP.

Knife would be last ditch. I don't want to go to court and I definitely don't want to go to jail.

Its a judgement call. If the situation calls for it, I will use it. But things really have to be bad for that to happen.
 
A long, long time ago in a different state I was in a park type area making out with my girlfriend in a wooded area near the local hangout. We had taken a walk into the woods to have some privacy.

A much larger, full grown ( compared to me, I was just a kid) guy appeared and decided to take advantage of the embarrasing situation. He decided he was more interested in my girlfriend than I was. He was going to get some and began to tell me and her just what he was going to do with her.

She was terrified. In shock, more like.The situation deteoriated to the point that I just wasn't going to run off and let this guy rape my equally young girlfriend.

I produced a small, rusty blade that I'd had and warned him off.

He told me that I didn't have the guts to do anything with it. I reached accross and slashed his forearm with about a 4-5 inch cut. That was my warning that I was , in fact, prepared to use it. I don't believe words would have really accomplished much as he was already of the mind that I couldn't and/or wouldn't do anything. I was prepared to cut any part of his body that got near me after that.

Coward that he was, he decided to leave, and actually leapt over a fence as he ran.

My girlfriend was now equally as scared of me as this guy it seemed, or more so now. I brought her back, and left, half expecting police trouble.

No police trouble, and the girl broke up with me. Avoided me is a better term I guess.

This is the first time I can say I've ever talked about it.

I've been stabbed twice at work in my adult working life, but that is niether unusual or really anything for this thread. Joe
 
I have considered having my knife ready when preparing for danger but danger seldom comes when you are prepared so I've never actually used a knife to protect myself.
 
Never had to use one, but I do carry my Spyderco Military around the seedier parts of town. It makes a great kubaton or impact weapon.

A knife would be a poor SD weapon without training, imo. It can be easily turned against you, and can really cause some serious damage, more so then a gun in some cases. Guns tend to cause people to stop, knives tend to get you hauled into court.

That being said, it's better then nothing.
 
I live in NE Washington DC and have never, ever considered carrying a knife for self-defense. I also lived in South Africa for about 7 months in 2005, right on the edge of a large town, about 1 mile from where the townships started. I've never been in a situation where I've felt like I would be more comfortable with a knife on me.

I believe carrying a knife gives some, not all, but some people a false sense of security, leading them to behave differently than they normally would (whether it's being more aggressive, more resistant, taking a "different way home", etc.).

Some of these stories are scary, and very unfortunate. I guess I've been pretty lucky.
 
No. I do open things a lot. :D

I carry a Glock though.

Knife in left pocket just in case.

I hope I NEVER have to use either.
 
Don't forget that SD isn't always against other people. Some folks who go hiking could get ambushed by a mountain lion. I saw on TV that this one guy survived a mt. lion attack because he was carrying a knife.
 
chanwahyaoh said:
Don't forget that SD isn't always against other people. Some folks who go hiking could get ambushed by a mountain lion. I saw on TV that this one guy survived a mt. lion attack because he was carrying a knife.
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A valid point. If I'm ever mountain biking or camping or hiking, I always have a knife on me, just because I'm out in the woods. But I guess I've never packed it on my bag of clipped it onto my pocket thinking I might have to defend myself against something, human or otherwise.
 
They never jam and they don't run out of bullets. If it's life and death, and the person gets close enough to me or mine, they are going to be cut.

Police searching for Bloomfield robbery suspect
Friday, December 12, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A man leaving his car pulled out a knife and stabbed a would-be robber last night outside the Boston Market on Baum Boulevard in Pittsburgh's Bloomfield neighborhood.

The incident occurred shortly after 9 p.m. in the restaurant's parking lot. The robber was stabbed in the stomach. He briefly ran into the restaurant and was last seen running along Cypress Street.

The suspect is a black male with a blue jacket. He had a cut on his cheek.

First published on December 12, 2008 at 6:41 am
 
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If you have not been properly trained in a proven system of edged weapons defence the answer is no. I carry a primary and a secondary knife at all times and they are a last resort. If confronted, unarmed self defence is of course first. If I'm with my family and there is a threat I would definetly do what is necessary to defend my family.
 
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Airoyster said:
This may sound funny,but according to the Canadian Criminal Code....Canadian Citizens are not allowed to defend themselves with anything that could be considered a weapon.Our Canadian justice system likes to keep us vulnerable at all times.
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That's a flat out lie.
You CAN defend yourself with a weapon, as ANYTHING you use to defend yourself is considered a weapon, be it a pencil, baseball bat, knife, sword, gun, etc.
What IS true is that you cannot carry something SPECIFICALLY as a weapon.
So that knife is a tool(which it actually is:))---remeber, a weapon is just a TOOL used for a specific purpose(like a hammer in a fight...)
 
lazerboy2000 said:
They can also be used against you fairly easily especially if you don't have training and a damn good grip on it.
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Yet another major misconception.
Never tried taking a knife from a supposedly "untrained" person, have you?
Try it with a buddy and a trainer blade, and you'll get that idea out of your head REAL fast.
 
No I haven't, and would strongly prefer living the rest of my life in similar fashion.
 
sensei78 said:
If you have not been properly trained in a proven system of edged weapons defence the answer is no. I carry a primary and a secondary knife at all times and they are a last resort. If confronted, unarmed self defence is of course first. If I'm with my family and there is a threat I would definetly do what is necessary to defend my family.
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If someone is in imminent danger of being attacked/killed, that person should probably use the knife clipped to their pocket (or whatever advantage can possibly be improvised), instead of taking the above "answer is no" advice, even if they haven't been "properly" trained in a "proven system of edged weapons defence."

I can't believe the above "Sure, I would defend my family, but you people shouldn't even consider it because you just don't have my level of training" attitude. We just heard from two posters whose bacon may have been saved because they happened to have a knife handy when things got ugly.
 
Metric said:
I can't believe the above "Sure, I would defend my family, but you people shouldn't even consider it because you just don't have my level of training" attitude. We just heard from two posters whose bacon may have been saved because they happened to have a knife handy when things got ugly.
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Amen.:thumbup:
Training makes everything better of course, whether it be unarmed, with a blade, or using a firearm, but people have also successfully defended themselves all those ways without training too.
Mindset is key, so if someone feels that THEY cannot defend themselves with a knife(or hands, or gun), then they will be correct(self-fulfilling prophecy).:cool:
 
Metric said:
If someone is in imminent danger of being attacked/killed, that person should probably use the knife clipped to their pocket (or whatever advantage can possibly be improvised), instead of taking the above "answer is no" advice, even if they haven't been "properly" trained in a "proven system of edged weapons defence."

I can't believe the above "Sure, I would defend my family, but you people shouldn't even consider it because you just don't have my level of training" attitude. We just heard from two posters whose bacon may have been saved because they happened to have a knife handy when things got ugly.
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:foot:Man, I did not mean to come off with that attitude. You are 100% correct. I was just reading a good number of the previous posts stating no, and their reasoning for it. And didn't think before I typed....
 
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