Mace spray will get you locked up just for owning it, even if you don't carry it. You need a licence for it - its a projectile weapon.
imo the only way to protect yourself from getting stabbed or mugged is to take up jujitsu or a similar martial art
i would avoid the martial arts and do a combat system ie Krav maga, Systema or Sambo, all are real world based.
The eastern martial arts are very good in their own enviroment and the systems i mentioned borrow heavily from all of them, but only the bits that are most effective.
The only word of warning i would say about martial arts is "resaonable force" if you use your training what ever it may be beyond that you run the risk of ending up in even more bother
I have been warned of this by two instructors in two different disciplines.
Richard
And your last comment helped exactly how ?
Ermm, pointed out a truth?
Jim
the weapon sometimes known as a "telescopic truncheon" , being a truncheon which extends automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to its handle;
That means you cannot legally sell, hire, offer for sale or hire, lend, give or import an ASP baton.Any person who manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or hire, exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or hire, or lends or gives to any other person, a weapon to which this section applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.
In simple language, as the extendable batton is a banned item, it automatically falls under the description of "article made or adapted for use for causing injury".Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him, has with him in any public place any offensive weapon shall be guilty of an offence.
In this section 'offensive weapon' means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury, or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him or some other person.
Crikey.
This thread is like listening to a bunch of school boys in the playground - all trying to big themselves up and say what they'd do and who they can beat up and how they can handle it, how they're the meanest thing on the street (nudge nudge, wink wink, don't mess with me, I'm dead streetwise).
Quite funny.
Keep it up.