Don’t think of cc in terms of avoiding trouble; instead, think of it as a huge tactical advantage in a trouble situation. However, it’s also vital to understand and account for its limitations, which is where knives enter the picture.
The Tueller Drill is an exercise that determined that an armed police officer, *expecting* a knife attack from a charging attacker, needs a minimum of 21 feet to draw and double tap the attacker.
For a civilian, not expecting trouble, and naturally hesitant to draw and fire his weapon, this distance expands a lot. Nobody has put it to the test, but it could easily be 30 feet or more.
To make things worse, a big part of the knockout game is using stealth and subterfuge to close the distance with an intended victim. So if they enter the civilian Tueller zone, what do you do?
In most cases, it is not an attack, but brandishing a gun could “get you into trouble” by frightening innocent people. But brandishing a knife can be done discreetly, so it can be done early, before you can tell for sure that you need a weapon handy.
As such, a quick draw knife is a very good complement to a cc pistol.
There is an old mafia saying, that makes sense in light of this: “Run from a knife. Charge a gun.”
How long of a blade do you think? Like a foldable hunting knife. Not the big huge ones.