Daniel White touches on the single most important element of personal safety: your own state of mind. There are always plenty of tools available to help you fight off an attacker—furniture, utensils, anything heavy that can be thrown, your own hands and feet. The odds against an armed attacker may be dauntingm but the alternative is to die doing nothing.
Don’t walk around in condition white. As Marines like to say, “Be pleasant to everyone, but have a plan for killing them.”
TC
I often say that the weapons are all in my head. The rest is just hardware.