Thread: Need a Knife

Well the thing is none of us can get a ccw for a while so knives will at least help for now. I agree that you should really have combat knife training before using but that's not always an option. I mean I don't carry around a knife on me normally, I don't even own one personally. However, when I go out at night to meet my gf to walk her back to my house or something, I do like to have a knife on me. Mr roommates friend was walking from Drexel to USP and on the way a couple guys grabbed them, robbed them and did some fucked up shit to his girlfriend. He was stuck helpless, he had no way of possibly defending himself or protecting his girl. If something like that happened to me I would not want to be sitting there helpless, with a knife at least there is a chance of doing something or buying time to get away. I mean yea you should have training to make sure you are safe and don't hurt yourself trying to use it but not having that training doesn't mean you just shouldn't carry a knife.

Oh and in terms of the burglar, I don't think the appearance alone would scare someone away(although it is pretty intimidating) but it's not hard to stab someone with a knife like that. You don't have to worry about the blade closing on you and it's a damn big knife, you can stab or slash someone with that knife no problem. I know the crackheads around here cant afford guns or knives that big so I think it give us a pretty good shot, especially being on defense.

Sounds like you live in Philly. You should know that it is flat-out illegal to carry a knife around in Philadelphia, no exceptions. So saying that you carry a knife around because you can't legally carry a gun doesn't make any sense; you can't legally carry the knife either. As for your friend who got robbed, he almost certainly would have made his situation worse by pulling a knife in attempt to defend himself and his girl. It probably would not have helped. The knife probably would have been taken away from him, and he probably would have been injured. Knife wounds are real nasty. You don't want one. And yes, not having the training really DOES mean that you shouldn't carry a knife for self-defense. This "training" thing is not an optional bonus that you can get by without. It is NECESSARY to effectively use a knife for self-defense. You are HIGHLY likely to be injured without that training, more likely than you are to effectively defend yourself. So it's a losing proposition.

As for stabbing/slashing a crackhead, you now seem to be talking about using a deadly weapon to attack and would, or possibly kill, a intruder who may not be armed. This is not justifiable under the law unless you can convincingly argue that this unarmed person posed an imminent threat to your life. You really need to know this stuff. Don't use that knife for home defense. Learn the law. Don't remain ignorant and just say "Oh this knife is pretty good for stabbing, I'll keep it around and use it on any crackheads who break in". You could be getting yourself into a legal shitstorm of a magnitude you wouldn't believe. Plus, without proper training, again, you DO put yourself in grave danger even by trying to use that Ka-Bar against an unarmed crackhead.