My Wheaties are fine, the first point is everybody has a right to live and that means they have a right to self defense and no law, no regulation, no local ordnance can negate that right. The police and their liberal employers in local government may hassle you but when push comes to shove you have the right to defend yourself with whatever you can find to defend yourself. If getting pulled over and disarmed every time a policeman looks at you is a problem then the laws need to be changed.
In the meantime it is attitude not weapons that is the first tool in your defensive arsenal. Use a frying pan, a garbage can lid, a baseball bat, a can of hairspray, scream bloody murder, and if you have a baton or kubotan or cane or knife use it with prejudice. Hurt your attacker, disable him if you are able, kill him if you must but do not. I repeat,
do not let yourself be defenseless because some legislator living in a safe neighborhood behind 10' walls and with private security says your stick is illegal. Use what you have and use it as hard as you can.
I have had one sister raped back in the 60's and another attacked, the one attacked I had just gone through a few self defense moves and an attitude talk with her. Her assailant ended up with a drum stick stuck in his eye. My grandmother ran off a man breaking into her kitchen door by jabbing him hard under the chin with a 30-30 right after levering a shell into the chamber. He wasn't happy to see the police but he felt safer with them then he did with her.
I am not whistling in some internet fantasy dark when it comes to self defense for self and family, I am dead serious and the local police officer can take the anti-weapon regulations and stick them up the legislators sunshine hole where they will do the most good.
If some mope is going to jump on me the absolute last thing on my mind will be 'what are the state laws governing my response.' If he jumps on one of my 4 sisters he is likely to have a really bad day. Especially if he jumps on the one carrying a .380 pistol. Another is a nurse whose son who runs a Dojo in North Carolina, mama is tougher than son. One has a large dog and a house full of guns and the last lives with me. She is blind and disabled with a bad back and arthritis but her two brothers, Mike and me, are very protective.
Don't be telling people they don't have a right to defend themselves because they haven't undergone some state approved self defense program or that the state doesn't like the stick they choose to carry.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I have read the constitution many times and nowhere in there is any clause allowing the state or the Federal Government to limit or regulate my ability to defend myself. That is the law I go by. Hardnosed, you betcha.