Listen pard . Do you think a ceremonial curved dagger is the best mode of self defense ? These silly rules were created multiple hundreds of years ago and no longer hold any relevance in the modern world . If you ' re only talking about that part of the world , there are far better methods of protecting yourself than a small dagger especially when those trying to hurt you have AKs . If you ' re talking about western society , having a dagger on your person is more likely to escalate a nonviolent situation to violence . You didn ' t need to tell me you live in rural America , I could already tell . <| sep |> I have made the same error . I had an old account and I made a gun related comment that led to consistent aggressive PMs and instadownvotes from my band of merry creepy stalkers . Some people are strange .