Quote Originally Posted by Truegiant
With that being said during my combatives level 3 course you learn more about defending yourself with a knife than you do attacking with one. Anywho..
exactly, its a defensive weapon. It takes hours to become proficent at a level to defend yourself (compared to the general population) and decades to be able to attack with it. Thats why the blade is so neat. You can literally overnight become more skilled than 80% of the population, but it will take you decades to be able to stand a chance in an actual knife fight.

UNlike firearms. Firearms take dozens of hours just to get half decent, a much harder longer learning curve.