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Use a short blade and go for the eyes.
No resistance and lots of arteries, veins, and even a lung are there.
But to aim for such a small spot in a life and death situation is senseless.
If you use a knife in self-defense, even if you "tried not to kill your aggressor", you will have still used lethal force. When you decide to defend yourself with a lethal weapon, there is no middle ground. If they don't immediately fuck off when they see the weapon, kill them or at least try as much as you can until they do fuck off.
Carl Spackler said:What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He'll never play golf again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he'll push everything off to the right. He'll never come through on anything. He'll quit the game.
Carl Spackler Knife School
Srsly, non-lethal SD options include pepper spray, stun gun, blast siren, and baton.
What is the safest place to stab someone in a self-defense scenario where you feel that your life is being threatened?
Ideally, it would incapacitate them and it would most likely be with a 3" pocket knife.
Just curious, as I carry a pocket knife with me most of the time for general utility, but I also assume that it would be a last resort self defense weapon if ever needed. I realized today that I don't really know where you should stab someone to incapacitate but not kill them.
I cannot imagine any reason why you will be stabbing someone without the intent of killing them. Just like shooting someone, you don't shoot to injure or maim, you shoot to kill. Or taking it back to hunters ed when i was about 10, never point your gun at anything you dont intend to kill.
Disagree. I won't shoot at ANYTHING I don't intend to kill. You shoot centermass for a reason, yes to stop the attack but when I squeeze the trigger I have full expectations and understand the possible repercussions and reasons for me squeezing that trigger. If I already know that when I shoot someone it will be in the chest than I already expect to take their life. I won't even pull my gun if this is an unacceptable outcome. This applies in self defense and combat for me.
Combat and Self Defense are not the same.
This rhetoric has been tested time and time again. Ask ANY firearms instructor outside of the DoD and see what their answer is.
I understand self defense, escalation of force etc, however:
My questions to you:
If you have to shoot someone in self defense, where will you be aiming?
In this location that you are aiming, are the chances high that it could be a kill shot?
So in essence do you expect to kill your assailant prior to pulling the trigger?
I do.
I shoot center mass. Why? It is the largest area of the body, so I am likely to hit my target. It also houses organs that, if struck, will stop the threat immediately. Do I expect the person to die? No, I do not EXPECT it. Could they? Sure. I am not of the "shoot to wound" school. I am of the "shoot to stop" school.
So in essence, I do not care if I mortally wound or miss every major organ AS LONG AS THE THREAT IS STOPPED.
SIDENOTE:
If you want to continue I don't mind at all, but we should start a new thread or see if we can find an old one to bring up.
Interesting choice in first postif their back is turned to you, if you stab at a really low point in their spine you would paralyze their legs but they have a chance of survival. right?
if their back is turned to you, if you stab at a really low point in their spine you would paralyze their legs but they have a chance of survival. right?
First post and you necro a 7 year old thread.