@Beemann i am a 5'5, 126 pound woman... if a man came up to me tried to over power me, he would have no problem doing so

smol

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id much rather have a gun to level the playing field than try my best with a knife and get my ass handed to me

How often do people come up to you and immediately try to overpower you? Normally this sort of thing happens with escalation, and situational awareness is a key component

If a dude comes up to you and completely overpowers you, we can ask a similar question even if you have a firearm tbh

im just saying even with a knife on me, id much rather trade it for a gun if i can

I appreciate that it would make you feel safer, but I think you're focusing on the wrong use-case

I mean im sure that anything could protect me just as well as a gun could but even then Im just saying that id personally feel better with a gun on me than i would with anything else

on stuff like this it falls to the individual,

with a gun you can more likely strike first and end the encounter before they make contact with you and possibly do damage

Sure, I'm just saying dont undersell the knife. I'd practice for it, tbh, if you're going through higher crime areas and such. Make it a couple's activity

lol

Yes, but that's dependent on the range/type of encounter tbh

Which was my point

If we're talking knife vs firearm neither of you is going to be doing that Hollywood knife fighting shit

personal protection I'm pretty sure was the focus

Yes, and I'm talking about situations where a knife works fine for personal protection

Which is the current most-lethal available method

but you have to be in... well, knife range

Because lolcommiefornia

theres a lot of factors that could come into play and I understand that

that why if i dont have a firearm, i carry a knife

Sure, and I'm saying maximize your efficacy with what you have

a knife could very well do more damage in a single strike than a single bullet or even a couple

I'd rather maximize effectiveness

It will hopefully help you feel a little more safe

I'd rather live in an area without violent criminals :^)
But short of that I'll take whatever the next available option is

i mean

and if Neon feels safer and subsequently more confident with a gun than a knife, she could probably act faster

when you live in an area where one of your friends fiance was jumped and stabbed to death by a bunch of crack heads it stand to reason that you should have some sort of protection

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Which is why I never said have no method of self defense

yeah, im just saying its better to have some sort of protection

Fair enough yeah

if a crackhead has a knife and you have a knife
it's likely you're both getting stabbed that day

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Well if we're talking about a group you're probably going to get stabbed regardless if they catch you completely by surprise, which is why situational awareness is key

right and you can have the same amount of situational awareness while carrying a gun or knife and you'll still have the upper hand with a gun because r a n g e

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Not if the "same amount" is low :^)