less than lethal weapons?

Some states allow you to use lethal force, as long as it can be proven that the person you use it on was making a threat to your safety or life.

I suggest a stun gun or pepper spray. You can probably find some nice things on E-Bay, but you'd be smart to first research laws in your local area to make sure that what you're getting is legal where you live.

Personally, I just carry a knife on me when I leave my house. I figure that if someone's going to try something, that they're going to be close enough for me to stab them or at least TRY to defend myself.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

Idiot. Carrying a knife makes you more likely to be a victim of a stabbing. The majority of stab victims don't realise they've been in a knife fight until after it happens. Kinves are terrible defensive weapons and only really useful for stabbing someone before they know they're having a fight, unless you're some kind of trained fighter in which case you wouldn't need a knife to fight off some street thug. Also, if you swing a knife at someone and kill them, the fact that you're carrying a knife suggests premeditation, making you far more likely to go down for murder (In this country at least, I'm sure the US has some kind of "Constitutional right" to carry machetes in public just in case someone tries to nick your iPod). How many times have you actually had to brandish a knife to get out of a beating? Seriously, I'm interested to know because I might have it all wrong and you live in one of those parts of America where everyone apparently has to take an AK-47 to bed with them to stop looters and rapists having their way with a person's property and kin.

Carrying weapons in public is just stupid, no matter how you look at it. If someone's got close enough to you to stop you and mug you, they'll be close enough to stop you whipping out your pepper spray or tazer and if you're not carrying one they can't then use it on you for a laugh after they've done your wallet.

My my, aren't we all high and mighty? Listen, just because you think it's a stupid idea, doesn't mean it is. I've been jumped more than once in my area, and after I started carrying my knife, I've felt a whole hell of a lot safer. At least I know that if someone or a group of people try attacking me, I can pull my knife out and get them once or twice with it, and possibly allow me to get up and run.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Immigrant Overflow

When your signature reads "Get ready for my "Super Ultra Mambo-Tango-Foxtrot martial arts!" one wonders why you choose to never leave the house without packing a shank and just not use your "martial arts" to defend yourself instead of walking around ready to shank a nigga for approaching you. Either you're real fucking paranoid or your name is Joe Horn.

I've been called paranoid many times, though I don't really think I am too much.

As for my signature, if you didn't know, it's from Earthbound, and I don't know any Super ultra Mambo-Tango-Foxtrot martial arts, sadly.

@Pang - Yes, I realize that, but as long as I feel safe enough, I don't care much.

@Beard - Touche good sir... Hey now, you'd be surprised how far I can get in those 10 seconds before I keel over from exerting myself. Almost a whole 12 feet!In all seriousness though, you put a pack of people who wanna kick my ass behind me, and it's like someone put in an infinite energy cheat... Like the energizer bunny, I just keep going and going and going.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.