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Originally Posted by -Ralph-
Knife vs Baton? Suppose CS spray is a better weapon in that case, but I wouldn't say the baton us useless against the knife. It all depends who is holding the knife and who is holding the baton. Its a moot point anyway, the purpose of the post was to illustrate that the prooblem in this county is more knife related than gun related, and you don't need a gun to combat a knife.
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I didn't say it was useless but it is a last resort.
My incident, for example, was in the summer. Under my body armour, which only covers my torso, not arms, I had a tshirt. My arms were bare. If CS does not work, which it didn't for a long time in this case, then the last option left for us was baton. In order to baton him, we would have had to have been close enough for him to have stabbed or slashed us, at least, on the arm.
I do agree with your point that knife crime is much more prevalent than gun and in most cases, gun vs knife is a disproporionate use of force.