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Seriously, I've read two separate items in the USCCA weekly e-newsletter about carrying/using a cane for self-defense.

In this week's edition, a member described an encounter in which he whacked the aggressor twice, once in the knee and once in the jaw (causing quite some pain). When the perp seemed about to continue the aggression, the member drew his carry gun and the aggressor changed his mind and limped away.

The detail that struck me about the other article was that the author recommended a "plain, wooden cane" rather than the "quad" type (with the four little rubber feet, unless of course that's what you need), because it would attract less attention at security checkpoints, or otherwise.