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Dealing with confrontation
There is no single ‘right way’ to respond to a confrontation or attack. Every situation is different. Your most effective weapons are your personal judgment and your commitment to preserving your safety.
The response you choose should aim to best preserve your safety. This decision should be based on three factors:
Your personal strengths - Which of the response options are you able to execute?
The perceived motivations for the attack/confrontation - Is the offender attempting to steal property from you or assault you? If the offender is attempting to rob you, you need to question whether it is worth placing your personal safety at risk for the sake of property that can be replaced.
Environmental factors – Are there people around who could provide assistance? Where could you run to for safety? What could you use to defend yourself if necessary?
Response options may include:
escaping, e.g. by running away
negotiating with the offender
doing whatever the offender tells you to, as you wait for, or create, an opportunity to escape
calling upon passers-by to assist
screaming
handing over property
distracting the offender
calling police (triple zero, 000)
physical self defence.
Remember, if the first strategy doesn’t work, try something else. Keep taking action until the threat is removed. Report the incident to police as soon as you can.
You can help prepare yourself to deal with an incident prior to its occurrence by imagining possible safety threats and visualising how you would respond.
Self defence and the law
In Queensland, you have the right to physically defend yourself with reasonable force, provided the force is authorised, justified or excused by law.
The law does not allow you to carry anything that can be described as an offensive weapon. E.g. mace or spray dyes, or items that have been specially adapted, such as a sharpened comb, or knife carried for the purpose of self defence.
Self defence courses Self Defence Classes
It is not necessary to attend self defence classes or undertake martial arts training to be able to effectively defend yourself. Each person has a survival instinct that acts to preserve their safety if threatened. A crucial factor as to whether a person can successfully defend themselves is their commitment to their safety.
Even so, self defence courses remain an effective method of building confidence and commitment to safety. When deciding on self defence classes, consider these guidelines:
Ensure the instructor delivers empowering messages rather than being fear inducing
Check the qualifications of the instructor and obtain a referral, if possible
Decide what you want to achieve from the classes. There is a difference between martial arts and basic self defence.
Last updated 25/10/2011
Our response;
"What could you use to defend yourself if necessary?
Response options may include:
escaping, e.g. by running away,
Old and infirmed can't run
negotiating with the offender,
The criminal was choking me, I couldn't speak.
Doing whatever the offender tells you to, as you wait for, or create, an opportunity to escape calling upon passers-by to assist,
I can't the criminal has me on the ground and kicking the **** out of me.
Screaming,
I can't the criminals are still choking me there are two of them.
Handing over property,
No need to the criminal is taking it anyway.
Distracting the offender,
The criminal is still ckoking me.
Calling police (triple zero, 000),
The criminal has stolen my phone and is still choking me, I can't speak
Physical self defence.
I can't they took my walking stick.
Remember, if the first strategy doesn’t work, try something else. Keep taking action until the threat is removed.
The criminals have broken my arm in the struggle.
Report the incident to police as soon as you can.
Too late, I bleeding out because of a wound that will not stop bleeding, I take blood thinning meds.
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IF ONLY I HAD A GUN!
), and best of luck.