This $2 Wooden Self-Defense Tool Is Legal — and Perfect for Seniors
If a man grabs your wrist in a parking lot, the hand you’d fight back with isn’t the hand you had at 35. By 79, grip strength is down nearly 30 percent from its peak. This simple wooden tool doesn’t need a strong grip, and police have trusted it for almost 90 years.
I’m Gary Benson, and in this video I’ll show you what the tool is, why a weak or arthritic hand can still use it, and where it came from, starting with a 1937 police patent in Berkeley, California, and ending with the kubotan that female officers of the Los Angeles Police Department trained with in the late 1960s.
You’ll learn the two ways to hold it, the hammer strike that keeps your knuckles out of harm’s way, and the simple move that gets a grabbing hand off your wrist. I’ll also show you how to make one yourself for a couple of dollars, and walk you through the three mistakes that can turn this legal little stick into a weapons charge. Those are carrying it into the wrong building, assuming your state’s law reads like someone else’s, and talking about it like a weapon.
I’m not a lawyer. Weapon laws vary by state and city, so read your own before you carry one every day.
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As a kid I knew guys who used rolls of quarters for this, if it breaks many of the attackers wanted the quarters (Lol this was 50 plus years ago) and others used schedule 40 water pipe that was an 1 inch to 1 1/4 inch pipe and drilled holes in the end and used shoe laces or string to keep it wrapped around your hand while pipe was inside ur grip. Some have even used a utility knife, good just like pipe and some don’t want to be cut but at least you won’t kill the guy. Another is the old allway knife or old carpet knife. Has the hook but can be used to stiffen the palm when ur hand is wrapped around it. One of our guys on construction used a plumb bob with string. Can use it to think someone upside the head or use in ur hand again like those already discussed. Anyway u get the idea.
Ultimately, consider this: is it better to have a tool whose mere presence serves as a more effective deterrent against the intent to commit a crime, or one that requires you to employ its maximum physical force to temporarily halt an ongoing criminal act? On what grounds do police officers and prosecutors assume that someone acting in self-defense will invariably use the highest level of force the tool is capable of delivering?
For vast majority of seniors, that stic,k just isn't enough of a force multiplier. Telling people otherwise is, in my view, Unethical. Now if you are suggesting using a bladed weapon or an impact weapon like a lock on the end of a short piece of rope, you are making some sense.
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Us old folks with good sense don't go out at night by ourselves. Hell a twelve year old kid could kick my arse.
As a kid I knew guys who used rolls of quarters for this, if it breaks many of the attackers wanted the quarters (Lol this was 50 plus years ago) and others used schedule 40 water pipe that was an 1 inch to 1 1/4 inch pipe and drilled holes in the end and used shoe laces or string to keep it wrapped around your hand while pipe was inside ur grip. Some have even used a utility knife, good just like pipe and some don’t want to be cut but at least you won’t kill the guy. Another is the old allway knife or old carpet knife. Has the hook but can be used to stiffen the palm when ur hand is wrapped around it. One of our guys on construction used a plumb bob with string. Can use it to think someone upside the head or use in ur hand again like those already discussed. Anyway u get the idea.
Ultimately, consider this: is it better to have a tool whose mere presence serves as a more effective deterrent against the intent to commit a crime, or one that requires you to employ its maximum physical force to temporarily halt an ongoing criminal act? On what grounds do police officers and prosecutors assume that someone acting in self-defense will invariably use the highest level of force the tool is capable of delivering?
For vast majority of seniors, that stic,k just isn't enough of a force multiplier. Telling people otherwise is, in my view,
Unethical. Now if you are suggesting using a bladed weapon or an impact weapon like a lock on the end of a short piece of rope, you are making some sense.