My daughter is at college and carries a spring-loaded knife at all times. She gets friction from the illegals downtown when she is walking home. I’m afraid one day she is going to kill one of them.
Pappy;
Your daughter needs more than to carry a knife. I doubt she has the skill, tenacity and violence of will to employ one with any effect on a male or males ( I don’t, and I am trained in the use thereof). A knife rather requires contact and a swim in a torrent of blood to be effective- showing one will likely result in escalation rather than a scurrying of rat feet as a fighting caliber sidearm tends to evoke.
I suggest you assure her security by a) getting her out of the situation b) getting her into a better one, c) training her in situational awareness and risk avoidance(professionally, as Dads don’t do justice for their women personally-to much emotional attachment between).
The most effective strategy involves the removal of the risk (exposure) from a threat (negative result).
At least, get her to walk home in a bunch of others-big Christian country boys preferably-chivalry still pervades our rural America (mostly).
Best;