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Exactly. The danger of getting hit with an umbrella is mostly that it hurts. The danger of getting cut with a knife is that you bleed to death. The two are wildly mismatched.

The likelihood that even a trained combatant would successfully poke out someone's eye before they got stabbed is pretty low. An untrained one will undoubtedly use the umbrella as a shitty club and get stabbed immediately.