I don't know...
With all this whacking and bashing going on between you two, who the hell needs a knife?
Just cave each others heads-in with a brick, it works just as well you know?
In any event, the use of knives for other than what they were intended for, is a sly and sick way to inflict injury or death and totally against the use of them.
I collect samurai swords..should a would-be assailant try his luck with me, he will without doubt, limp away six inches shorter.

Is Mise: "Do I Greens bash? Of course I do."

And you have every right to do so, but I suggest in future you do so a bit more honestly. You ostensibly started this thread about the supposed peril of knife attacks, but now you acknowledge that wasn't really your purpose.

I'm just keeping you honest, old chap.

For example, perhaps you'd like to come clean about your association with the Shooter's Party? Next to that bunch of gun-toting frootloops, the Greens are positively mainstream.

Spanky,

You've wandered in between diametrically opposed points of view, perhaps.

I think that the victim should be allowed to resist to whatever extent
that he/she thinks is necessary to render the assailant incapable of further attack.
I also think that any intruder into a person's home should not be given any advantage.
Someone looms up over your bed in the middle of the night then it should be their bad luck.
That it turns out to be someone who is drunk and wandered into the wrong house is bad luck, for them. They're the one who decided to get drunk.

The other point of view is that the assailant has rights and that those rights should be respected and even to the extent of placing the victim at a further disadvantage.

This is where the Greens and their supporters tend to get a mite hysterical.

Is Mise: "I think that the victim should be allowed to resist to whatever extentthat he/she thinks is necessary to render the assailant incapable of further attack.
I also think that any intruder into a person's home should not be given any advantage.
Someone looms up over your bed in the middle of the night then it should be their bad luck.
That it turns out to be someone who is drunk and wandered into the wrong house is bad luck, for them. They're the one who decided to get drunk. "

Actually, I think you'd find that the Greens have no problem with any of that, and in any case reasonable defence is lawful in all jurisdictions and under the common law, as far as I know. If, however, you're suggesting that it's reasonable to 'shoot first and ask questions later', then that's another thing altogether.

You are begining to get the picture, CJ.
"Shoot first and ask questions later" is probably the best description of the position that the victim usually finds himself in.

Unfortunately it is not an option in this country where the attacker has arms but the law-abiding members of society, the victims, are not allowed to be armed.

So can someone answer the question?

What to do if attacked by a criminal with a knife?

Your practical wisdom might save a life.

The greens are kkk perhaps?
It certainly sounds like it.
Wander here, wander there, wander wherever the hell you like, it still comes down to the fact that the knife attack issue and what can be done, has taken leave on this thread and if one looks at the demise and interest lost on this thread, one is able to see why, take a look Il mise and you will see what I'm talking about.
The law themselves are supposed to curb possession of knives and any other form of weapon. One cannot totally eradicate them from our everyday lives and their use on unsuspecting people, we use them to eat with and unfortunately to hurt people with, so the whole purpose of this thread was to actually "vent" on the people you refer to as "greens" and has absolutely nothing to do with knife attacks what-so-ever.
Sorry Il Mise, this thread has become a dud....cheers!