stillquietvoice
Contributing Member
I thought everyone showered with there guns lol. At least one is very close most times.
Better than hoppes for gun cleaning.
You need to look into a shower gun!
That's what glocks are for.
I thought everyone showered with there guns lol. At least one is very close most times.
You need to look into a shower gun!
I see it the same way.I keep a handgun on me or in my direct line of sight. I live in a quiet suburban neighborhood where nothing ever happens but I don't go to the mailbox without a firearm. I'm not paranoid at all, just realistic .
Doesn't follow.I have firearms available, but not within arm's reach. Why? I am more likely to get struck by lightning than suffer a home invasion.
The Good Lord made me a guard dog. That IS an answer.
Well thought out.I'm just not sure about the intimidation factor of a knife of any size, regardless of how it's held to a bad guy with a gun. A good guy with a gun has to worry about the law and the complications that shooting someone with a contact weapon can bring. They might hold off and try to get the knife-wielder to give up or leave. A bad guy has no such concerns and can start blazing away as soon as they see something that worries them at all.
At the most basic level, there are three scenarios of a defender armed with a knife against a single attacker.
1. Attacker unarmed.
2. Attacker armed with a contact weapon.
3. Attacker armed with a gun.
My assessment (for me) is that two of those scenarios have a huge potential for a negative outcome--even if I survive, the chance of serious injury is very high. The remaining scenario is less horrible, in terms of the likelihood of serious injury, but still not great.
Then we get into the possibility of there being multiple attackers and that makes me even less enthusiastic about my chances of not going to the hospital or the morgue.
Everyone looks at things differently (not that the actual reality is necessarily that different--I'm just saying that risk assessment is generally fairly personal) but my personal feeling is that while I like knives, have decent self-defense knives and always have a knife handy, I would never put myself in a situation where I was relying on a knife as a self-defense weapon over a handgun.
I take anticoagulants. A slight cut would be fatal.I don't know if this attitude is widely shared, but I am horrified by the idea of being cut and would have to think pretty hard about whether I'd rather be in a knife fight or a gun fight. A big part of the reason I signed up for instruction in knife fighting is that I am so intimidated by it.
I take anticoagulants. A slight cut would be fatal.
God also gives grace. I need it a lot.How do you manage the keyboard with your paws?
I have firearms available, but not within arm's reach. Why? I am more likely to get struck by lightning than suffer a home invasion.
I agree that a knife defense is preferable to a bare-handed defense and that a knife will be more intimidating than having no knife.Let me put it this way. The intimidation factor of not having a knife in your hand is zero. The intimidation factor of having a knife in your hand is not zero, regardless of the armament of the attacker.
Ok, I went back and re-read your initial post again to see if I had jumped the track somehow.That sounds like a conclusion to refute my argument, when that was not my argument.
It’s worthwhile to note that defensive encounters don’t seem to frequently involve “weapon upgrades”. Usually a non-LE defender ends up using the first weapon available, rather than fighting to a better one, then maybe to an even better one, etc.Besides, as the saying goes, knives are useful for fighting your way to a handgun, and handguns are useful for fighting your way to a rifle, which is useful for fighting your way to a shotgun.