>>58861682Short range. Also using pepper spray outside can have unintended consequences if it's windy. Though I probably shouldn't even be replying to you when you say stuff like "a knife is an adequate self-defense weapon". If you have a knife, run the fuck away retard. That's your only option.
First of all, good luck coming out uninjured from a knife fight. Secondly a knife is a deadly weapon and is not less lethal than a gun, which means that if you use one in self defense you need to be justified in self-defense with a deadly weapon. Good luck convincing a jury that you needed to stab someone multiple times to defend yourself. Specially if you don't go full maniac and they survive to tell their side of the story which surely won't agree with your take that the stabbing was justified.