A buddy of mine used to carry a baton everywhere because he was a huge wiseass that couldn’t help himself after he had a couple drinks in him (probably why we got along so well), he ended a few fights before they started with that thing but he was shitting himself silly after clocking a dude in the head with it and the guy ended up in the hospital for a few weeks.
I remember in the 90’s and early 00’s there was a lot of gray area over what was considered concealed or not, specifically those and throwing stars/knives. I’ve got some badass throwing stars that’ll get about 3/4’s of the way through a car door, in the times I haven’t owned a gun I’ve had a pile of them on my bedstand. I’d fucking hate to catch one of those anywhere in my body, if thrown at force by someone with some aim they’re going to stick into bone and some of the weightier ones hitting somewhere like a collarbone will pop that fucker in two while doing some pretty nasty damage to any skin/veins in the area.
I haven’t owned a gun since my divorce as I didn’t feel it was the best thing to own during that time (not cuz I was going to use it on her, but I almost took myself out with my last one) but now that enough time has passed and I’m back to being reasonably sane, I’d love to get another Sig P320, that was my favorite 9mm I’ve ever fired. They have a smaller one for EDC my CFO bought and that‘d most certainly be my top choice for an EDC pistol, I can’t remember the model off the top of my head though.