The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
I only direct in self-defense.
The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.
You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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