Originally Posted By: Desperado
If things have gotten bad enough to enter knife fighting, and you have no one else to take care of, you forgot one other respectable weapon....

Your feet. Now RUN like your life depends on it, because it does.


It is my understanding that in most, if not all, jurisdictions, "running away" (as my nephew puts it) is your legal duty. You must try to avoid the fight. Failing to run away, or at least trying to run away, might make you partially legally responsible for whatever happens. Your right to defend yourself may not exist if you could have run away and did not.

All law is local and it is best you understand what the local rules are before you need to act.
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