You against brass knuckles? Odd
I was born from a long line of Americans and have been around quite a while, having grown up in the South and the Midwest. When I was young, brass knuckles were used nearly exclusively by crooks to sucker-punch victims in sneaky ways.
Men sometimes settled conflicts with fists, but use of a weapon could land someone in prison. Someone disturbing someone else’s peace with name-calling or vulgarities could legally be punched, if no serious injury resulted. Old people, women and disabled people weren’t attacked much, because bystanders—even strangers—reacted instantly and violently to that.
Circumstances have changed, though, with various foreign cultures being moved around continuously to employment hot spots by slavers and generating conflicts. People change. So yes, women need weapons—even hand weapons reminiscent of trench warfare—to get safely back and forth in dark parking lots. In some areas devolving with foreign cultures, men need weapons, too.
Remember, though, that many of the legal and temporary societal changes that we are seeing are for adding efficiency to a campaign of taking out the trash. And for now, there will be more private cameras in use every year. Anyone using weapons like brass knuckles against someone who has no history or reputation of criminality will be giving up some of his or her rights after violating the rights of another. There’s also the chance of being both shot and imprisoned.