I don't have any stats about knives, but I have done some training on defending against a knife and using a knife in self-defense, and getting a knife out of the hand of someone determined to use it is NOT EASY. A lot harder than stripping a pistol, once you are "in contact." If you carry it in a way that is visible to others, then you run the risk of losing it to someone sees it and initiates a surprise attack with the objective of taking your knife, but once you have it in hand, using it vigorously, rapidly, and repeatedly is awfully hard to defend against.FastCarry wrote:Im not hand to hand or knife trained, my fear is my own knife used against me. I chose not to carry one for that reason. Are there any stats to argue how often a knife is used against its owner?
As far as "not getting close enough to use a knife" -- that's not really a choice you get to make with any reliability.
As for the OP's primary question -- looks legal to me, I did not immediately think "Bowie" when I saw it but as AndyC said, the law is mush on knife definitions. The main non-legal problem with it that I see is that it is very long overall, and that makes it harder to conceal and deploy (like someone else above said).
I occasionally carry knives with 5-5.5" blades, even folders in that range.