Defensive pens are often easy to legally carry due to their low profile appearance. With this being said, certain shortcomings of defensive pens should be acknowledged when compared to something as simple as a metal rod. This dense rod in the picture below is clearly going to have a much greater impact then a metal pen when it comes to striking. Perhaps objects like this should at least be considered by people if their states concealed carry laws allow the carrying of kubatons.
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