The people of UK under attack again & are unarmed by law with certain small exceptions. What can individuals do to promote self-defense?

2017-06-04T14:16:54-04:00

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 4 at 2017 3:10 PM

2017-06-04T15:10:54-04:00

People should look into self defense training - classroom, YouTube, or other types of training. You never know when such skills are needed, even if it isn't simply to protect yourself.

What say you ?

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 4 at 2017 3:59 PM

2017-06-04T15:59:56-04:00

PVT Mark Brown Weapons are all around us. A knife hand strike to the throat, a broom handle strike to the chest, thumbs in the eye sockets, a kick to the knee, a hard ear clap. etc. Attack with every weapon that you have at hand. Attack, attack, attack.

http://www.blackbeltwiki.com/ear-clap

Instructions for a Self-Defense Ear Clap or Thunderclap Strike - Black Belt Wiki

This page provides details on how to do an "Ear Clap". This martial arts self-defense technique involves striking the ears on an attacker in order to force them to release you. This strike is also known as a Thunderclap Strike, Cupped Ear Blow, Thunder Palm Fist, etc.

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Jun 4 at 2017 4:03 PM

2017-06-04T16:03:37-04:00

Three people killed seven and injured 48 in less than eight minutes. Can we assume none of these casualties had any self defense training? Run, hide, report.

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Jun 4 at 2017 5:59 PM

2017-06-04T17:59:39-04:00

I think the really sad takeaway from all this, PVT Mark Brown, is the that the British people, since they're unarmed, have the right to expect protection from their various levels of government, and they're not really getting it. MCPO Roger Collins SGT Private RallyPoint Member

Response by PO1 Tony Holland made Jun 4 at 2017 7:34 PM

2017-06-04T19:34:45-04:00

Develop global awareness of their threat environment and take self-defense courses.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 4 at 2017 7:35 PM

2017-06-04T19:35:30-04:00

They need to go to there government and demand that they be given the ability to defend themselves.

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Jun 4 at 2017 9:00 PM

2017-06-04T21:00:28-04:00

I've Lived in London, The Only attempt on My Life was by the Libyans in Concert with the IRA. I'm More Concerned by Village Idiots in this Country Empowered and Enabled by the NRA in this Country. By the Way I Served on 3 Security Alert Teams.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jun 5 at 2017 1:36 AM

2017-06-05T01:36:18-04:00

Emigrate to the U.S.

Response by Cpl Mark McMiller made Jun 5 at 2017 6:48 PM

2017-06-05T18:48:59-04:00

What I find really ironic is that this is history repeating itself and one would think they would have learned the first time.

During WW2, following the Dunkirk debacle, Great Britain, as a nation, was virtually disarmed. Not just because it had abandoned most of its military equipment on the beaches of Dunkirk but also because the Restrictive gun control policies and laws of its own government that required subjects to demonstrate "good reason" to merely obtain a handgun or rifle had left the citizenry of Great Britain unarmed. They were were defended by an ill-equipped and defeated army and a "Home Guard" armed with little more than sporting shotguns and pikes.

The government and the people of the U.S. came to the rescue. The U.S. government provided military arms to the British government through the Lend-Lease Act while individual U.S. citizens donated their own firearms to the "American Comittee for Defense of British Homes, which placed advertisements in the NRA's American Rifleman magazine asking Americans to send pistols, rifles, revolvers, shotguns, and binoculars because British civilians, faced with the threat of invasion, desperately needed arms to defend their homes. Thousands of firearms were collected from Joe citizen and sent to England and doled out to the citizenry there. Hardly any of those firearms were ever returned after the war ended and were, most likely, confiscated and destroyed by the British government.

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Jun 6 at 2017 12:58 PM

2017-06-06T12:58:35-04:00

PVT Mark Brown Carry a spike strip? The reality is that these acts cannot be stopped regardless of armed or unarmed citizens. It is a constant game of cat and mouse between the terrorists shitstains, and decent folk. Take the concert bombing. That human shaped turd placed the bomb outside of the security area. No check, just destruction. With the car rampages, people have become so dependent and attached to our cars that any attempt at banning them would meet such push back from the public that it wouldn't be worth trying. The only thing people can do is be vigilant, and report what they see. Problem with that is that people have developed a mentality of not getting involved, or if it doesn't effect me I don't care. There is something to be said for the cowardice of the terrorists though. They have a tendency to stay away from places where they are likely to encounter armed resistance. A soft target is a good target.