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 by escaping slave on 6/6/2008 @ 2:17pm |
If anyone is looking for a realistic hands-on self-defense class, I recommend Courage Quest offered by Safety First in University Place.
Their website is: www.safetyfirstpps.org/ It's for men and women of all ages, but minors must be accompanied by a parent and/or the parent must be a graduate of the class. They won't let minors take part unless their parent has taken the course. You may think you don't need to protect yourself and that someone else will be there to help you, but please consider the court case below (which brought about the DC gun ban) anytime you think it's someone else's duty or right to protect you: Warren v. District of Columbia is one of the leading cases of this type. Two women were upstairs in a townhouse when they heard their roommate, a third woman, being attacked downstairs by intruders. They phoned the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After about 30 minutes, when their roommate's screams had stopped, they assumed the police had finally arrived. When the two women went downstairs they saw that in fact the police never came, but the intruders were still there. As the Warren court graphically states in the opinion: ``For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers.'' The three women sued the District of Columbia for failing to protect them, but D.C.'s highest court exonerated the District and its police, saying that it is a ``fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'' Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981). |
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