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This is not to be cranky as I do support people taking measures to defend themselves but ...
Unless you have a documentable problem, carrying a cane will not protect you from
legal ramifications as its use as a weapon.
In fact, some states have club laws. If you drive around with a baseball bat, you better have a mitt and a ball.
Canes are wonderfully impractical for normal life. Walking with your kid in the mall carrying shopping bags and the like. When you show up at work with a cane, what is your story? In fact, we had a guy here start to wander around with a big walking stick. Must have been reading too much Bradley Steiner and American Combato. Since he was not injured, he was visited by the powers to ask what was up.
Would a cane mark you as a person with a handicap? Target!
Do you know how to use a cane? If you did with martial arts training, is it then a lethal weapon that you are carrying?
If no guns are allowed, you are better off with an OC (and yes, I have read the real literature on OC) or perhaps a Delica.
As far as people being busted for just carrying a gun - that's what the street crimes units do. If you can get a CHL or CCW - just do it. Fight the constitutional battles in court with reasoned legal briefs.
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