Knife fight

So the problem lies in the weight of armor, not because of its advantage, this is something we solve by making lighter chain shirt, not to discount it altogether.

And the brits and krauts do have a higher chance of being stabbed than good ol' me.

This is dumb kraut word playing right there, armor helps mitigate the damage, not that it prevents you from being stabbed.

And good luck using your FAK after you are stabbed, you might have a better chance give it to someone else or run to the hospital.

They do not sell chain mail in 'nam.

The best way to win a knife fight is to bring a gun, keep your distance from everyone and shoot who gets close.
Better yet, don't go outside.

More lile best way to get arrest.

You're right. Whenever I get stabbed I could just put on my bodyarmor whenever I feel like getting unstabbed, you know cause it's like a disease with antibiotics?

Nowhere but your post does anyone argue that both parties will be warned before hand therefore knives are useless. The main argument is training is better than no training and armor as well as vigilance and good judgement, but somehow one is being preferred over the other when I think all three need to be utilized in hierarchy. I don't here anyone talking about the values of real martial skills. Just have a gun or running away isn't always going to be the available option. What if you were ambushed?

I have a physician in my family who loves to go off on med kits and how they are useless. In particular the tourniquets.
The rubber ones which you often find that are about an inch in diameter are not designed to stop life threatening bleed-outs from arterial hemorrhaging. They're designed to take blood.
If you ever are in a situation where someone has had an artery opened such as in a case of losing a leg you will want to use their belt and yours too as well as any one else around. You will want to go for maximum surface area and maximum tightness.

For some reason the idea of being attacked with a knife scares me more than being attacked with a gun. Does anyone else feel that way? Despite knowing in my brain that a gun is extremely dangerous, the idea of staring down the barrel of a gun doesn't wrench my gut as much as the idea of being threatened with a knife.

What brought about that rant was an incident where he works at a urgent care center. Someone came in with their ulnar and radial arteries severed at the wrist. Work place accident, they came in holding a bucket to contain the blood. At the time they entered the clinic the patient had lost something north of a pint of blood and the bleeding was not stopping. One of the nurses initially tried to stop the bleeding with three of the rubber tourniquets and failed. A doctor came around and found her panicked with a medical technician, one holding the arm and the other cranking one of the tourniquets as hard as she could, literally leaning back. He made the correct call to place the patient in a blood pressure cuff and set it to maximum inflation. By the time the ambulance arrived to transport the patient to the emergency room the bleeding had been stopped.
TL;DR rubber tourniquets are trash even if cranked to the max and you can get more milage with a wider surface of compression with less pressure.

or, maybe dont buy a shitty tourniquet, dotard