I was in Australia a couple of months ago, you could panic people if they saw you carrying a simple Leatherman in a belt case. Loved the country hated the social indoctrination of the sheeple. If i were to go back someday i would spend all my time building totally concealed defensive and offensive devices. James Bond type of stuff.
If America came to the same conclusion of that poor country i guarantee that several hundred million people will start carrying sword canes, gas propelled shark darts, taser style gloves, green laser personal blinders aimed to disorientate physical attackers, new age body armor designed to react to knife attacks.
It would be a massive culture shift to get around the absense of guns, quite frankly with the freedom of creativity it would actually make for more effective weapons, so let them ponder that, just leave it alone.
But of course these political addicts won’t, they fully realize how to use it for building the staircase to their personal thrones.
Agree totally.
Eventually lethal short range lasers will be developed. Power source is the issue. It would be easy enough today to blind an attacker with a laser. But that is a lawsuit magnet if you survive.