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I am a law enforcement officer and an instructor on "Desert Survival". I carry two knives both on duty and off duty: a Victorinox Master Tinkerer and a Spyderco Police with a plain blade. In my survival pack (always close to me) I also have a Boker Fairbairn/Applegate fixed blade and the Gerber version of the Leatherman Supertool. I used to also carry a Buck Stockman pocket knife, but had to put it away because I needed that pocket for my Kel-Tec P-32. The last near fatal stabbing I worked involved a love triangle and a pocket knife with a 3/4 inch blade. It caused a sucking chest wound of the upper lung lobe on his left. If we hadn't of got there when we did, the cutee would have died. He also had a slash on the upper left leg that exposed but did not open the femoral artery. It just wasn't his day to die. Since then, I have the utmost respect for an adversary with ANY size of knife. The cutter went to Nevada Prison for 11 years.
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