KnifeLawGuy
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For your eye-rolling pleasure:
From: http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/index.php?ntid=104260&ntpid=4
Gee, why didn't we think of that? Here we are, talking about arming teachers and making sure law-abiding folks can legally carry handguns in schools, when the answer is right beneath our noses -- the magical ninja self-defense chop, that could put any homicidal, gun-wielding attacker "out of commission in an instant." In fact, according to Mr. Morgan, "it is obvious that if either the victim or a bystander had known one basic self-defense move, they could have incapacitated the assailant with one well-placed blow." Hee-yah! (karate, er, ninja death chop sound goes here).
Heck, Mr. Morgan should take his revolutionary idea to his local police department: after all, with just "two basic self-defense moves," "[t]hen any time in their lives they are confronted by an attacker [such as a violent, homicidal criminal], they could put him out of commission in an instant." His local PD could give up their handguns, shotguns, and patrol rifles, the local SWAT team could be disbanded, everyone could be taught the magical "two basic self-defense moves" (ok, three or four for the former SWAT guys), and, presto! -- we can finally attain that elusive "one-shot-stop" incapacitation. Hee-yah! Nirvana at last. And all of us could sing kumbaya.
But remember, kids, according to Mr. Morgan "[m]any people make the mistake of punching or wrestling with the attacker, which leaves them vulnerable." So, you don't actually want to fight them. That's dangerous. Instead, think: ninja chop.
Seriously, how can someone be so clueless? Obviously, one should learn empty-handed self-defense, along with how to use edged weapons, improvised weapons, and other defensive tools. But to think that one or two "basic self-defense moves" will put any determined attacker "out of commission in an instant" has to be some of the most drivel I've read in some time.
Perhaps some of our Wisconsin brethren can write a response letter to this publication?
Stay safe,
david.
Edited to add: Mods, if this is the wrong forum, please move as appropriate.
From: http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/index.php?ntid=104260&ntpid=4
John Morgan: Self-defense lessons, not guns, needed
A letter to the editor
Dear Editor: The tragic stories we read in the paper about assault in schools, workplaces and the streets, usually by an armed assailant, provides the call by some for concealed weapons and guns in schools.
This nonsense misses the point. The point is, why doesn't everyone know the basics of self-defense?
In most of these stories, it is obvious that if either the victim or a bystander had known one basic self-defense move, they could have incapacitated the assailant with one well-placed blow. Many people make the mistake of punching or wrestling with the attacker, which leaves them vulnerable.
Even a child can incapacitate an adult, should, God forbid, the need arise.
So why don't schools teach all children in the first grade two basic self-defense moves? Then, any time in their lives they are confronted by an attacker, they could put him out of commission in an instant.
John Morgan Madison
Published: October 23, 2006
Gee, why didn't we think of that? Here we are, talking about arming teachers and making sure law-abiding folks can legally carry handguns in schools, when the answer is right beneath our noses -- the magical ninja self-defense chop, that could put any homicidal, gun-wielding attacker "out of commission in an instant." In fact, according to Mr. Morgan, "it is obvious that if either the victim or a bystander had known one basic self-defense move, they could have incapacitated the assailant with one well-placed blow." Hee-yah! (karate, er, ninja death chop sound goes here).
Heck, Mr. Morgan should take his revolutionary idea to his local police department: after all, with just "two basic self-defense moves," "[t]hen any time in their lives they are confronted by an attacker [such as a violent, homicidal criminal], they could put him out of commission in an instant." His local PD could give up their handguns, shotguns, and patrol rifles, the local SWAT team could be disbanded, everyone could be taught the magical "two basic self-defense moves" (ok, three or four for the former SWAT guys), and, presto! -- we can finally attain that elusive "one-shot-stop" incapacitation. Hee-yah! Nirvana at last. And all of us could sing kumbaya.
But remember, kids, according to Mr. Morgan "[m]any people make the mistake of punching or wrestling with the attacker, which leaves them vulnerable." So, you don't actually want to fight them. That's dangerous. Instead, think: ninja chop.
Seriously, how can someone be so clueless? Obviously, one should learn empty-handed self-defense, along with how to use edged weapons, improvised weapons, and other defensive tools. But to think that one or two "basic self-defense moves" will put any determined attacker "out of commission in an instant" has to be some of the most drivel I've read in some time.
Perhaps some of our Wisconsin brethren can write a response letter to this publication?
Stay safe,
david.
Edited to add: Mods, if this is the wrong forum, please move as appropriate.