Reply #272: A UK perspective on Arms and the control of the mind in such situations

[noahfischer7971]

This is really interesting coming from someone who lives in the UK. As I'm sure your aware, the public neither the police are armed and I'm sure people are robbed as often as they are in the US in urban areas. There is surely no doubt that if us civilians could carry arms we to would shoot when threatened - AND be acting in self defense.

It's the perception of fear, which is valid in anyone who feels threatened and if I were able to defend myself in a lethal manner, I like most would defend myself in the maximum manner the law allows, if not more. When I trained martial arts I would use mental conditioning, such as most primarily power of conversational hypnosis training, the art of fighting without fighting. Using your voice to try and control the attacker without them realizing you are in control. These encounters are are primarily won and lost by way of fear and self control and anyone would learn valuable lessons is such knowledge.

Stories like this are indeed unfortunate, but increasingly common in today's society and people need to learn the tools to deal with these inevitable's.