less than lethal weapons?

I find that a lemon, if thrown accurately, is a very effective weapon and yet at the same time, considerably less than lethal, especially if you aim away from the head.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

At which point you realise that what you should have hit him with is a pool ball in a sock, preferably from behind so he can't tell who did it after he gets up.

Also, hitting people with weapons tends to get you arrested, even if the other guy started it. Your best bet is learning how to take a punch and getting good at running away. Either that or hang out with harder people, that's a pretty effective self-defence tool.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Lyth

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.

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.

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

Well knife crime is big news here at the moment and you can't move for tv documentaries and stuff about knives. As for general fighting, you can't run a pub without knowing how not to get hospitalised if it kicks off and the only sensible options are to have a lot of hard mates around at the time or try to contain the situation and call the police. I know a lot of people who've been in far more fights than me and the one thing they all say is that carrying weapons is a stupid idea. From para's and marines to aging mods and rockers gang fighters, everyone agrees that if you carry a weapon, at some point in your life someone will be using it on you. They also agree that hitting someone with a bottle is fine but stabbing someone with the broken end is a no-no and that you should never, ever stamp on someone's head as that's the point an assault charge becomes an attempted murder charge.

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