They require skills, and strength and training
That is why guns are called equalizers.
The boy bought me a knife for Christmas. It was the one recommended by my PWW.
PWW then shows me how to carry it, hold it, etc, for best "safest" (here, hold it this way, the only thing an attacker can do is sweep against your femoral artery, which is far better than any other way of holding it, which could twist to my neck).
It will be years of training before it is anything other than a prop to be used against me. It requires face to face closeness.
Not even close.
