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a knife is important because it's really hard to skin a critter with a fire ax.
That's great. Just keep in mind, at close quarters, the firearm suffers most of the same limitations applied to the knife in this thread. #1. have to deploy it. #2, instant stop unlikely, even a heart shot will allow 7-30 seconds of conscious voluntary control.I am reminded yet again why I am glad I can carry to school here.
Affirmative.Anything else with any tool (or no tool) will have varied results based on what is broken and where.
So, what you're saying is that he stopped the fight?I have seen it happen, someone stabbed multiple time in the neck, including severing a carotid artery. The large stabbed individual proceeded to beat the crap out of the punk that did it, and then passed out about 20 seconds later. Others got involved. With blood showering the area. The attacked individual got prompt medical attention and a blood transfusion and were back to normal within a couple days with just some scars and stitches.
It also means he didn't die, which is the point.The amount of blood showering out under pressure at face level certainly means any disease that person had was shared with his attacker.
n=1I also knew someone knocked out and put into a coma from a hit to the head with something as mundane as a full beer bottle.
Whatever that means. I imagine shooting defensively is also not as easy as shooting offensively, but in the same way most people aren't in situations where they draw after they're already shot, people don't have spontaneous knife fights.Stabbing offensively is much easier than defensively. The offensive attacker knows they need to use their weapon before they are engaged in a fight and can deploy it accordingly.
So, we should disarm ourselves and admit defeat before the fight even begins?If they are using a weapon they will have similar or greater reach. If they don't care about the law they are likely to have a bigger and better weapon whether a large knife, blunt weapon, or a gun.
If you are attacked, I'm pretty sure you 'get' to claim self-defense.If they are not armed, then you are using lethal force to face a simple battery. Which in most circumstances is itself a crime, and you are at least likely to be considered a mutual combatant and face criminal charges for any serious damage.
Mutual combatants don't get to claim self defense.
Illegal in much of the nation? There's nothing in the CALIFORNIA code that prohibits the carry of fixed blade knives, particularly openly.A fixed blade is much easier, but also illegal in much of the nation.
Then after all that movement to retrieve that weapon with one hand, leaving you less able to counter attacks being delivered, you are left with a weapon with only moderate potential.
I would say that a poor weapon is better than no weapon.So under most circumstances where using that weapon is legal for you, the other individual will be armed, or there is more than one person attacking you.
A small folder is a really bad weapon in those circumstances.
I don't know what minimal damage means exactly.. but I disagree.It has poor reach, is hard to deploy while grappling, and does minimal damage compared to most weapons you can be attacked with.
In any case, not just where small folding knives are present.If you have any opportunity to leave or back down and choose not to, then you are very likely to be considered a mutual combatant, and self defense is not an allowed defense.
I dare say that such a fight is rare outside of the movies.An actual fight between grown men who know how to fight or lived some street tough lives when the stakes are lethal is quite different from a schoolyard brawl between teenagers. Anything and everything which can be a weapon suddenly is a weapon. There is a lot more power behind even the same attacks, and most solid hits do significant damage.
If it's not bolted down, it gets thrown, or picked up and smashed into an opponent.
Just because someone might have a better weapon than you, I still say that there is no reason to not try and level the playing field a little bit.And that is if they didn't bring a weapon, a likely much better weapon not in compliance with the law.
What does this mean?If on the other hand you are using legal self defense, it will only be deployed when facing another weapon or multiple attackers.
It doesn't sound very hard to justify the use of lethal force (which apparently even tiny knives are classified as) in your neck of the woods. I'm surprised you're still alive after all the fights you must have witnessed.Where I come from the type of people who are multiple attackers would then pull out weapons they are carrying themselves and some not armed may back up and grab things in the room or off the ground. Whether it is a piece of furniture with greater reach, or some bricks or large rocks on the street. Or random debris, like a bottle, pipe, or some discarded automobile component.
If it is a lone individual they already have their weapon out to justify your use of lethal force.