What to carry when I can't carry?

Originally Posted by db99wj

University of Memphis here....ha, I win!

Ya'll getting a bunch of folks from Atlanta don't ya?

Yea I'll give you Memphis on that one, but doesn't make me feel any better around here.

I don't know about folks from Atlanta, just folks from the wrong side of 24.

Have you thought about getting a 5 or 6 cell Maglite its a mini bat and very legal plus your less likely to be a target if your walking with that in your hand

Originally Posted by trblmkr13

Have you thought about getting a 5 or 6 cell Maglite its a mini bat and very legal plus your less likely to be a target if your walking with that in your hand

I hadn't thought about that at all. I completely agree those things are beasts. I will look into it. Though I was kind of going for something that I could slip into my pocket.

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You can also use your keys as a weapon by holding them in between your fingers. While using the Maglite to blind your attacker. Just a thought.

You might want to check this out. It's mainly geared towards women but it works just as well in the hands of a male. Be sure to check out the different parts of the website to see different ways it can be used. It feels really natural in your hands.

www.TheSpikey.com - Defend, Fight Back, Stay Safe!

It is not classifed as a weapon so it's campus friendly.

I'm not 100% sure but I believe a baton is considered a weapon by some groups.

Sadly, Tennessee is pretty hard on students even having a firearm in their vehicle or in dorms on school property. I went to college in Arkansas and it was perfectly legal (though against policy) for us to have loaded long guns in vehicles or dorms on campus.....kind of gray on handguns...depending on if we had a license (then legal say in car or sidewalk but not in building) or if the handgun was being kept for say hunting or target shooting. If you had a handgun in your car....no license...not on a journey....and not say a hunter...you could get arrested for a felony charge back home in Arkansas...but loaded shotgun in the gun rack..PERFECTLY LEGAL! I often kept a loaded long gun in my car trunk in college for plinking and small game hunting. My last yr I could keep my gun in my dorm room (legal but against policy) b/c I lived alone and no problems with nosey room mates. I lived on campus (Univ of Arkansas-Fayetteville) so never felt the need to carry anything as far as a weapon up there on campus besides driving on highways from Fayetteville to Little Rock or Memphis. I had a pocket knife...but mainly as a tool not protection...again Fayetteville is a pretty safe town...some friends kept guns in their dorm rooms and frat house rooms or cars/pickup trucks.

Your options in Tennessee seem to be a little more limited than mine were at UofA due to what I did and friends did is flat illegal here and you feel the need to actually protect yourself VS keeping a gun in your car or dorm/frat house room. I would recommend Kimber Pepper Spray...it gives you two good bursts that won't blow away as bad in the wind. Get you a little J frame Uncle Mike's pocket holster to put it in. That will work much better than a pocket knife because it puts distance between you and an attacker.....I hate to hear that you feel that your campus is not safe...I enjoyed my college years and many of us walked around in well how can I say it...hmmm in a not all there state of mind in Fayetteville between the Bud Light, bourbon, and blended whiskey...so we weren't too aware of our surroundings and more concerned about watching girls while walking around campus at night down to the bars with a 'cold drink' in our hand on the way for the walk! Enjoy college it will be over before you know it.

If you are serious about being able to defend yourself when you can't carry, I'd recommend training in a good, practical martial art. Even when you can carry, its nice to have more than one option to respond with. I've been training in Aikido for the past two years. Getting my HCP and more training with a firearm was a natural extension of self defense and that art. Several LEOs train/instruct at our dojo and are a wealth of knowledge on the legal front, too.

Krav Maga

Sorta on a side note, but you may want to join the facebook group for concealed carry on campus. This has been getting a fair amount of attention recently. I think the group is "Campuscarry.com" I am not too much into the facebook stuff, but I saw this group on the news and joined. It has like 47,000 members now.

As far a being safe, the best defense I found to use around school was to look alert and try to have multiple people with me. Sounds gooby, but I never had any trouble. I was at UTK.