Rick:
Actually, I don't live in a bad neighborhood now, but I've lived in a nasty one while I was in school in South Carolina, and I guess I've built up my weapons-carry habits based on that. When I was living in the apartment in SC, one of my neighbors had the S.W.A.T team kick down her door because she was harboring her son, who was on the run after shooting a police officer. I had another neighbor who was a crazy schizophrenic who didn't take his medication. He attacked me one night and I had to choke him out — after that, he threatened to kill me, so I never left the house without two knives, O.C. spray, and a 28" ASP baton (in SC, you can't evict someone for 30 days, and the assault court date wasn't for another two weeks, so I had to live with this crazy s.o.b. across from me for half a month).
I've been in several scraps in my adult life, and I've fortunately never had to use a weapon for self-defense. I agree with Burton 100% about legality: I carry a copy of the Hawai'i weapons'-laws in my wallet.
Take care and train hard,
Jim
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