It raises the stakes from somebody probably gets their ass kicked to somebody probably dies. If you can't fight hand to hand, having a knife isn't going to make your situation any better. Especially if you're up against someone with martial arts training who has drilled disarming people thousands of times.
Edit: Then, even if you win the fight you might be facing manslaughter, 2nd degree murder, or attempted murder charges instead of assault or battery. Leftists who kill reactionaries will not recieve the lieniency or institutional support that white supremacists like Kyle Rittenhouse get.
Yeah what the other guy said. Unless you're significantly stronger that the other person by a large margin, they will be able to manipulate your hand to cut you or disarm you. Carrying a knife is either a moot point or a dangerous point in your gut.
A knife is good for intimidation, sometimes it will get people to back down. The problem is if you don't know how to use a knife its real fucking easy to either hurt yourself or have it knocked out of your hand and then used against you. So if you pull a knife and the person doesn't back down you fucking better have the skills to back your threat up.
Not unless you have years of training in very specific martial art styles (mostly military-derived or HEMA). And even then you wouldn't intentionally do it.
Unlike drunken pub fights, Group Streetfights tend to have a lot of grappling and unlike swords and other weapons knives don't give you the reach to disengage, so you're just adding a spinny random blade to your wrestling match.
If you must carry a weapon (and unless things are really kicking off into revolution you don't), a stout stick or staff is hard to beat.
Can I just carry a knife
Unless you want to get everything cut to shit by your own knife don't carry a knife to fight fucking ever
I read that a lot but I never really got why
It raises the stakes from somebody probably gets their ass kicked to somebody probably dies. If you can't fight hand to hand, having a knife isn't going to make your situation any better. Especially if you're up against someone with martial arts training who has drilled disarming people thousands of times.
Edit: Then, even if you win the fight you might be facing manslaughter, 2nd degree murder, or attempted murder charges instead of assault or battery. Leftists who kill reactionaries will not recieve the lieniency or institutional support that white supremacists like Kyle Rittenhouse get.
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Yeah what the other guy said. Unless you're significantly stronger that the other person by a large margin, they will be able to manipulate your hand to cut you or disarm you. Carrying a knife is either a moot point or a dangerous point in your gut.
A knife is good for intimidation, sometimes it will get people to back down. The problem is if you don't know how to use a knife its real fucking easy to either hurt yourself or have it knocked out of your hand and then used against you. So if you pull a knife and the person doesn't back down you fucking better have the skills to back your threat up.
Not unless you have years of training in very specific martial art styles (mostly military-derived or HEMA). And even then you wouldn't intentionally do it.
Unlike drunken pub fights, Group Streetfights tend to have a lot of grappling and unlike swords and other weapons knives don't give you the reach to disengage, so you're just adding a spinny random blade to your wrestling match.
If you must carry a weapon (and unless things are really kicking off into revolution you don't), a stout stick or staff is hard to beat.