Originally Posted by goaliemn
If you aren't willing to use it, don't carry it. If someone is attacking you, they will see the hesitiation in your eyes..
A spray bottle full of mace or pepper spray will deter most attackers.. especially if you have to spray it at them. It has a range of afew feet. Your knife has the range of your arms length.
In Baltimore/DC area, you have heavy weapons restrictions.
http://www.packing.org is a good reference site. Its mainly about guns, but they also list knife/mace/other non-lethal weapon laws for each state, along with links to where the information was found.
Just because I don't want to cut anyone, that doesn't mean I'm not willing to use it. I'm quite ready to waive it in a menacing fashion and yell "I'll cut you foo!".
Anyway, I try not to let anyone on the street get within a few feet, and beyond a few feet I feel that a knife is a better deterent than a bottle of mace.
Your suggestions are really off topic though since the TSA does not assigned fewer restrictions to Mace than knives anyway. Furthermore, there is the more general problem about what to do with essential, but prohibited items that cannot be cheaply replaced.
Originally Posted by tsadude1
If you don't know how or where to store your knife then you probably should not be carrying one for self defense. It will probably be taken away and used against you. Maybe this would help
http://members.aol.com/ThaiRing/street.html
When this was still a free country, I knew how and where to store my knife. The fact that US citizens can no longer travel without submitting to search and seizure is completely unrelated to my competence in carrying a knife.