You don't need 4" to reach a major artery.

"Security" is so tight at your new place of employment that they won't trust you with any knife at all, not even scissors, much like kindergarten, but will overlook a knife with a 2-inch blade?

I hope this new job is worth it to you. They better be paying you lots of money. They will be treating you like a child. I was a child once. I am an adult now and I prefer to be treated that way.

Besides, any entity that would be leary of the blade on a Swiss Army would make me rather leary of it.

Pretty soon we will all be frightened of our own shadows.

-- Craig

The job is absolutely worth it and the pay stinks. I'm taking a pretty big pay cut for this job actually but its not the kind of job you take for the money. I have a 50/50 chance of being placed at a facility with metal detectors at all entrances. If I am in one of these facilities then of course all bets are off and I best get to napping a flint blade for EDC. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> If I am not at a metal detector facility then anything is okay as long as it can be concealled 200% effectively plus carried in a way that makes it impossible for it to be gotten in to someone elses hands. In otherwords there can be absolutely zero chance of it falling out of a pocket (or whereever its being concealed) when running, jumping, bending over, sitting, standing, breaking up a fight, restraining a person or multiple people or pretty much anything else imaginable.

What about a Fred Perrin's Griffe made out of G10
here is one...

A mental health facilty, I'm guessing? If so, you are a far better person than I am. May The Force be with you. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

-- Craig

Pretty darn close. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

More power to you. In my area, Norristown State Hospital is always advertising for help. That's where they put people who have more serious mental and emotional problems. And sometimes they escape merely by wandering away. I could no more work there than I could be a Marine (I am only 130 pounds. My pack would weight more than me!).

-- Craig

I was about to state the same thing that a 2" blade will not reliably reach the heart of a grown human. Opening an artery is not nearly as quick a debilitating act, but can be effective if you can defend yourself long enough for the assailant/victim to bleed out. A pierced heart/lung is much more efficient.

Im not interested in using it for defense so that is not an issue. I am only concerned with its usefulness as a tool (cutting, battoning, prying etc) in emergency situations.