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Self-Defense
Unarmed self defense really works. Take the story of UC-Davis student Katie McMahon. She took a few self-defense classes and successfully fought off an attacker.
Unarmed self-defense is some time necessary no matter how well armed you are. In police work there is the "21 feet rule" that says an attacker with a knife running full bore at an officier is likely of to over come, i.e. stab, an armed officier with a holstered side arm. This can happen because the officier must identify the threat and draw his weapon. It would be faster for the officier to use an unarmed counter and then draw.
The bottom line here is that unarmed self-defense training is a necessary part of personal self-defense training.
| "The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; ... when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - Henry St. George Tucker, in Blackstone's 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England. |
