Switchblades or batons

What's more efficient as a self defense weapon?
A switchblade or an expandable police baton?
>inb4 get a gun
Simply impossible.

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baton, easy to use and you are less likely to kill someone with it

Get a gun.

Back in the day, we'd take a bag of quickcrete mix and pour it into slinder PVC pipes with the ends capped off, when that stuff solidified it was extremely strong.

Some kids used the dollar store hollow plastic bats and filled them with concrete mix for the same effect.

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Bump

A knife is actually useful as a tool.

I personally would say baton.
Though I suggest a third option.
Sjambok.
Hard to counter by an unskilled opponent, inflicts high level of pain, nonlethal, somewhat easy to conceal.

Expandable batons, from what ive heard, can be unreliable, unwieldly, and fragile.

As a note, ive had some success in braiding strips of polypropylene piping to create a sjambok analogue with similar, if not quite as effective results.

>ive had some success in braiding strips of polypropylene piping to create a sjambok analogue
IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE PLS LURK MOAR

Nope. Been here four years.
20 years old.

Also live in a guncuck country, and am very poor.

You do what you gotta do, man.

We used to turn mini-bats on the lathe in the high school woodshop, then we'd drill into the end and fill it with lead. The shop teacher called them our fish clubs with a wink and a grin.

>lived in a no guns hellhole.
>Took metal conduit. Filled with concrete.
>Fixed a fancy hinge to end
>jury rigged flanged mace for if something went bump.

Never had to use it. Have better options now.

Are you even allowed to carry those telescopic batons? I hear they're illegal in many places. It works well though, and has a decent intimidation factor to it when you swing it open.

Pepper spray. Batons are illegal to carry in a lot of places and knives can be difficult to use in a legit self defense situation.

>It works well though, and has a decent intimidation factor to it when you swing it open.

Only in open spaces, inside corridors or even furnished small living areas it has draw backs. The swing arc when it's fully extended is quite large.

Switchblades are brittle. They're a utility, not a weapon. I would much rather use a baton than any knife anyway. Less likely to fuck up and hurt yourself, easier to use, less messy, generally just a better weapon.
But a gun is one thousand times better for self-defense. Even if you're going for "less lethal," keep in mind these things can still kill people. A few hits to the head can end someone's life. My recommendation is a gun, but if you are somehow too poorfag/underageb& for that then a baton is your best bet, given that you aren't a lanklet. Or just use pepper spray, it won't stop them but they wont be able to see shit and you can deploy it at a distance.

>google stupid word
>it's just a leather baton that doesn't fit in your pocket
The baton is a good pain compliance tool with more range than the knife, but like the knife it is not particularly useful without training and an innate desire to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

They handed us these in the military police in Finland and I did notice it was awkward to open in tight corridor situations and such.

>lived in a no guns hellhole.
>Took metal conduit. Filled with anfo.
>Fixed a fancy crimped off bullet case filled with black powder to the end.
>jury rigged cellphone for if receive call.

Never had to use it. Have better options now.