[extropy-chat] weaponry

[Dirk Bruere]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Kevin Freels <cmcmortgage at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>I think that martial arts is a very good way to handle things if they
>>get close enough, but personally I prefer to keep my distance if at
>>all possible.
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>And a martial artist is still at a disadvantage when an attacker is armed.
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Unless one is out looking for trouble, or deliberately putting oneself 
in harms way, the attacker *always* has the initiative.
They pick the time, place, mode of attack, weapons, severity etc.
In most of the fights I've seen the defender would not have had time to 
pull a gun, because the first blow was the one that felled them. The gun 
would only get pulled afterwards, for revenge. And when people have 
carried weapons eg a knife, again it's invariably the attacker who uses 
it first (which is what one might expect).

The situation where a law abiding citizen is minding their own business 
in the street and is attacked after a measure of warning (and cannot get 
away)  is extremely unusual.

-- 
Dirk

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