I would think that it would also take more energy to continue fighting with a hammer due to its weight. That seems a liability.

I would tend to agree with this, although I'd think in either situation the shorter the fight the better.

Ah. Keep an empty beer bottle by the sink. Grab it by the neck. Crack it on the counter so you have a sharp, broken bottle and look crazy.

See Allyson's the really dangerous one. She's got the creative-in-battle thing down.

Am I the last one to know that Jennifer Garner is currently filming an Electra movie?

Saw Harold and Kumar. Laughed a lot.

Have no opinion on weapons, except to state that, predictably, I want a freaking batarang.

(Silly Raquel and Plei, talking about *movies*)

But are you going to assume the battle is shorter with the hammer? Because you have to assume that you've been accurate in the blow, and that you've landed a blow, at all. Both a knife and a hammer assumes that you're relatively close to the attacker. Why not attack with a brick and use your arm as the lever on the down swing, then?

Both a knife and a hammer assumes that you're relatively close to the attacker. Why not attack with a brick and use your arm as the lever on the down swing, then?

I'm not married to the hammer. I could just as easily go for the brick idea.

They could film this discussion and show at NRA membership drives.

(that's because I spend way too much time talking about weapons with my gaming group and at jiujitsu)

OK, one weapon story, but it's pretty much natter: There's a guy at work I call Barking Guy, because he barks when he comes into my office. Then he hugs my back and looks out the window while talking. I don't know what he says, because I don't take my headphones off. I exude hostile body language, but he does the hug thing anyway. I lamented this state of play to a friend who said, "Stun gun." I said, "Secure building, can't bring weapons in." He said, with no pause, "Faulty lamp wiring."

I think Allyson would like this guy.

Why not attack with a brick and use your arm as the lever on the down swing, then?

I mean really, now that I think about it....

The brick is just the modern, engineered version of the Sizable Rock, and lets face it, the long, noble, and storied military history of the Sizable Rock is quite impressive.

But in prison, presumably where one can have a blunt object like a five pound weight easily transported from a weight room, the preferred weapon is the shiv.

I think you're assuming too much about an opponent with a hammer. Like that your opponent is asleep, or perhaps on life support. Maybe blind.