What Knife Makes You Feel Safe?

Cold Steel Tanto - quick in confined spaces, sharp enough to eviserate and pretty enough to explain away.
 
I'm some of the other folks -- I would not open the door with a knife in my hand, it would probably by my 45 and then verrrrry carefulllllly.
 
Ozy said:
So in a country where youre mostly able to own and carry weapons, in a country where "an armed society is a polite society" this is the way ya'll feel inside your homes?

doesnt make sense really.
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Do you have any idea what you just said?

This is a BIG country. 300,000,000 people. From all over the globe. Different attitudes, different economic levels, different laws from state to state and city to city.

We ask questions like this to learn what people from other areas and other backgrounds think, to get ideas from our diverse and rambunctious fellow citizens. :D

To think there's any one rule of thumb that characterizes all or even most of us is way wide of the mark.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Do you have any idea what you just said?

This is a BIG country. 300,000,000 people. From all over the globe. Different attitudes, different economic levels, different laws from state to state and city to city.

We ask questions like this to learn what people from other areas and other backgrounds think, to get ideas from our diverse and rambunctious fellow citizens. :D

To think there's any one rule of thumb that characterizes all or even most of us is way wide of the mark.
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Yeah.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Do you have any idea what you just said?

This is a BIG country. 300,000,000 people. From all over the globe. Different attitudes, different economic levels, different laws from state to state and city to city.

We ask questions like this to learn what people from other areas and other backgrounds think, to get ideas from our diverse and rambunctious fellow citizens. :D

To think there's any one rule of thumb that characterizes all or even most of us is way wide of the mark.
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Yeah, I know what I said, we are just as multicultural, infact there is a massive influx of South african nationals and Sudanese as well, and I know what its like for them back home.
I just dont get it.
 
What don't you get? That some people in some communities feel less safe than others? Spectrum of force: worry who's there, open to see anyway, be ready with a club, or a knife, or a gun?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
What don't you get? That some people in some communities feel less safe than others? Spectrum of force: worry who's there, open to see anyway, be ready with a club, or a knife, or a gun?
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Yeah, i guess we just might be a little luckier over here... sorry for pulling the thread off track.
 
I just wouldn't answer the door unless I knew who it was. Makes sense, right? Fortunately I can see the front door from a window, and if they seemed even remotely sketchy I'd just call the cops. That being said, that's not the question here, right? I mean, what's the fun in that? :D
 
I keep these three swords out in my front yard for late night surprise visitors...

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I've had to answer the door a few times late at night, I live in a condo complex, and there are people walking around at all hours. I usually have my Busse FBMLE behind my back when someone comes knocking late. If somebody ever tries anything funny, they're in for a nasty suprise. I keep it in the (beefy kydex) sheath- if I actually had to use it, I'd probably just club the guy with the thing.

The one time I answered the door late at night and the guy was extremely drunk and aggressive- he got the barrel of my Glock 19 shoved in his snout. Drunk as he was, he got the message pretty quickly, and scampered.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Do you have any idea what you just said?

This is a BIG country. 300,000,000 people. From all over the globe. Different attitudes, different economic levels, different laws from state to state and city to city.

We ask questions like this to learn what people from other areas and other backgrounds think, to get ideas from our diverse and rambunctious fellow citizens. :D

To think there's any one rule of thumb that characterizes all or even most of us is way wide of the mark.
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300,000,000 legal residents, don't forget the 50 mil. + illegals...:)
 
Most common knives I've grabbed in that situation would be my Cold Steel X2 Voyager, Kershaw Outcast, Cold Steel Recon Tanto, or my Benchmade 610 Rukus.

I've yet to have to grab my American Tomahawk Co. Pole Axe though...LOL j/k
 
Out of all the knives I have ever owned only my Spyderco Military makes me feel that I could truly defend myself from attacker with it. Solid and dependable, bottom line.
 
tip is definitely a fine point but the blade design and handle size must be what makes it feel secure to me. I do see the tip issue though. Definitely not going to pry anything with it.
 
yerscattergun said:
Until your tip breaks...:)
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Seriously, have YOU broken the tip on the Military, and if so, what the heck were you trying to do with it?
Granted, I won't be trying to stab my Military through any cow skulls in the near future, but it holds up stabbing trees just fine.
What do you do with your folding knives that is harder on them then stabbing trees?:confused:
 
stabman said:
Seriously, have YOU broken the tip on the Military, and if so, what the heck were you trying to do with it?
Granted, I won't be trying to stab my Military through any cow skulls in the near future, but it holds up stabbing trees just fine.
What do you do with your folding knives that is harder on them then stabbing trees?:confused:
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Since the post is defense oriented, anyone who has trained in
martial arts and has been in a fight knows anything can go wrong..
you could miss in a cut or thrust, and strike a wall, belt buckle,
skull, (use your imagination) and the tip of yout kinfe is toast..
 
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