The digital witness: Why it is time to update the fence for self defence.
“It’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six”. This is the mantra of many a combatives guy. It is the macho answer to give when surrounded by your peers in a bar discussing the twenty different types of pre-emptive strike that will either explode a knee, pop out an eyeball or collapse a larynx. All valid techniques in their own right and each could be as deadly as described. But do you really want them to? I am not suggesting you roll over and play dead, or allow yourself to become the victim of violence, but I do not want you to become a victim of your own violence either. Is fifteen years for manslaughter or a six stretch in prison for GBH while your family are left alone with little income, possibly losing the family home, and having to get by on benefits and the charity of others good self-defence? When the day of reckoning comes maybe a year after the event where sleepless nights are the norm and the constant stress has led to regular anger...
