I want everybody who will read this to know that I fully support martial arts, self defense classes, rape prevention classes, and anything else that helps protect the weak from being a target on the streets.  I am a martial artist myself, and I fully support anything that can help people defend themselves.

I came across this interesting website with a collaboration of articles, all of which are fascinating reads.  But two sections in particular are relevant to the subject of martial arts and self defense.  Here are the links to the articles.

http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/self-defenseexplained.htm
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/self-defensetraining.htm

This is applicable to self defense classes and reality based martial arts which focuses more on preserving your own life in a life and death scenario.  What I think is interesting about these sets of articles is that it focuses on the legal realities of self defense.  It is not being able to defend yourself in a fight, or to be the best fighter among your class.  It is a legal defense that is used to tell a jury, “Yes, what I did constitutes as a crime, but I have proof that I was justified in my actions.” 

My question is this: How many of you martial artists and self defense gurus out there 1) think about the legal aspects of your fighting art, and 2) incorporate it into your teaching/learning so the legal limits of your actions are understood?

Yes indeed very interesting. We have several law enforcement and high profile Judges, DA’s and sort. We will indeed share that knowledge with our students. Being able to protect yourself from harm and then being able to defend yourself in court. Very real scenario’s. Thanks for sharing these links.

There was and incident, something like you were mentioning, happen here at the University about 8 months ago. Two tweeked out students went on a local buglary spree, shooting two people, and one night they hit the wrong house. The two kids entered the house; the owner of the house saw the two buglars masked from outside in his backyard ran into his room and locked the door. One of the buglars shot the lock with the gun and entered the room, the tenant managed to get the gun from him and One thing lead to another both buglars were killed one shot in the head. The parents of the two killed wanted charges brought against the homeowner, all were thrown out and the trail never went to court. They parents even tried to sue for wrongful death, that didnt make it to court either.

I like those links I printed those out and put them in my gun safe

Sorry I cant spell or type my apologizes