Walk down the street with a baseball bat and they police will arrest your carrying a weapon. Walk down the avenue holding a cane and you can go anywhere, even on an airplane.  A one-inch-thick solid oak or hickory cane, when swung in self-defense, can travel twice the speed of a baseball bat. What better self- defense device cany you find that is universally allowed?

A cane gives you an extra two to two and a half feet of additional reach to strike somebody with the tip. Or you can swing the cane in an arc to hit (and often break) a bone. Finally, you can hook your opponent’s leg or other parts of the body to throw him to the ground. Perhaps most important, a cane doesn’t look like an offensive or defensive device. If someone approaches you with evil intent, he will not expect the cane to be a tactical aid and will generally assume you are unarmed.

Because of Newton’s second law (force equals acceleration times mass), a walking cane may be more powerful than a baseball bat because it swings faster. Experts have been clocked by radar guns swinging a cane over 200 mph, so you should easily reach half of that speed with practice.

Discover how to defend yourself. It is easy to learn. Know how to protect yourself. In a fight, you are on your own, as almost nobody will help you. You can defend yourself with a device the law says you can carry legally for health reasons.