news.com.au
URBAN ninja mums are urging frightened women to take back the streets.
The fear factor, fueled by reports of weekly stabbings and bashings in Melbourne, is feeding a revival of the ancient Japanese art of fighting.
And nunchukkas, sais and staffs are not always the weapon of choice.
“I am a weapon,” black belt ninja Annette Christopherson declares.
At just 150cm tall, the 50-something mum is a force to be reckoned with, without all the brawn.
One Melbourne establishment, the Kevin Hawthorne Ninja School, is training mums and dads – and even kids as young as five – in the art of ninjitsu to protect themselves from street violence, bullying and home invasions.
No guns no knives so its back to bare hands with the edge going to youth, size, and power.
Great. Can you carry a baseball bat? Er I guess that’s cricket bat. A game so boring you can’t tell if the audience is alive or dead.
Bobo, did you know that in 2009 the United States violent crime rates dropped to a 35 year low? The murder rate dropped to a 43 year low. During that same year gun sales were at a all time high (around 14 million). In the past 15 years the amount of guns in the US has steadily rose while crime has plummeted.
#8, #10
You are NOT a criminal.
Criminals do not think if a person armed or not.
They think is that person easy to take. Whenever
possible most theft will be from burglary, shoplifting, smash and grab or snatch and run.
IF a person has upped the ante and started doing violence to rob, they are in no way scared about an armed person. They will just shoot or stab you and run off. Most people are not trained to pull and shoot in these situations.
You have to get training. And that means a defensive gun course. That is why soldiers can fight with a gun and LE can. They are trained to react the correct way. Just arming people will mean people will get injured or killed. Violent criminals don’t give a shit about you. They have even convinced themselves they will get killed as well and have nothing to
lose.
#19
There is no such thing as ninja. It is a fairy story. Something that sounds good to Hollywood.
There were assassins and nothing more. They had no special secret mystical clan, no unusual training or special powers. They were regular people, trained
to get in, steal, kill or disrupt and get out. Every culture had them.
No ninja, just a good story to scare people. Fear works very well, ask anyone in christian clergy or politics.
#22
Where did you get that stat?
US Bureau of Justice and the FBI show that in 1960 the violent crime rate per 100k of population was 160.9 with a 5.1 rate of homicide and 1726 rate
of property crime.
In 2008 the rates were 454.5 for violent crime, 5.4 for homicide and 3213 for property crime. That is down from the 1991 high of 758.1, 9.8 and 4738.
So I am not sure where that stat came from. Especially when the stats for 2009-10 are not even out yet.
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#22–Og==generally aware yes, not to that detail. A function of the aging of society. Seems that strapping up and going out to look for trouble is a youth thing.
Bad Boy==if you think the mosquito analogy is bad, imagine what any sane person thinks of: “Guns don’t kill people.”
So, sad that statistics don’t bear out a 1:1 correlation, only a positive one. The more guns: the more death by guns. Somalia has lots of guns and no police force. The only 1:1 correlation is no guns: no deaths by guns but the gun nuts ignore that logic.
As with all issues of import, it would be ok with me for you retards to have your beliefs IF it didn’t take me down with you. But it does. Course, not “me.” Just all too many innocent people killed every year to maintain the illusion of Freedom.
Cursor==you really ought to link when you confront a stat so directly. I’ve been hearing general reports of declining crime for the last 3-5 years.
And just lately its been “fun” to catch the debate about crime in Arizona. On different shows, you hear experts say the violent crime/crime by immigrants/crime by illegal immigrants is going up or down.
I guess when you don’t provide your sources/link anyone can say/think whatever they want to?
If guns kill people, so do knives, cars, glass bottles, alcohol, prescription drugs, cigarettes, fatty foods, etc. the problem with your mindset is you don’t want to take responsibility for your actions. So you blame problems on inanimate objects. Guns are a tool for self defense, among other things. If you give people the incentive to protect themselves, they will get proper training and learn how to defend themselves properly. But if you outlaw the ability to defend oneself and tell them to rely on police, and then threaten them with jail time when they do try to defend themselves, they will become pathetic sitting ducks.
Besides, do you honestly think it’s possible to rid society of guns completely? Either you’ll have the black market, our you’ll have north korea.
And this somalia straw man liberals always fall back on is only half the story. Yes there is no government or police in somalia. But there are gangs equipped with guns fighting to be the ones to form a new violent regime so they can get loads of cash from the US, world bank, etc like so many other embattled countries. Who do you think supplies these gangs with guns? Why do you think they have the incentive to perpetrate violence? This is why countries should never be allowed to lend stolen money to other countries. Just look at these idiots here paying off insurgents so they won’t attack the military!
Bad Boy===all I care about is what works. When I look at all the studies and the variations in them, I conclude we all would be safer with as few guns as possible. Of course, any transition period is rough==death by guns probably spike right up.
but you can’t escape the logic of no guns = no death by guns.
After laws were passed including no guns by police–instead relying on team responses, ok=a swat team backup fully loaded, data basis, public cams, arrest for possession, life/death sentence for use during a crime, it wouldn’t take that long for them to fall away.
Or not. Its not going to happen until the next revolution but the idiocy of your own position will not end until you admit what any SANE PERSON SEES: guns kill people.
In Soviet Russia, Ninja Mama is married Sergei Norris.
RE:#27 Guns do kill people, so do cars. Cars kill about 3 times more people than guns each year. Why aren’t you asking for cars to be banned?
Og==cars should be made as safe as possible which is always a hurdle and a fight against the industry that makes them.
Cars serve a necessary need that has no replacement. Neither element is true re guns.
Bobbo, all I care about is freedom. As long as I don’t infringe on someone else’s person or property, I should be able to do whatever I want, including owning a gun, which haas many uses including self protection, hunting, recreation, or because I feel like having one. And all your little studies aren’t going to console me when I’m lying dead in the gutter waiting for the police to arrive. Seconds count when it takes there police minutes to arrive. The police are a clean up crew. They’ll write up a nice report after.
Do you really think you’ll be able to rid society of violence by writing laws and punishing people? That sounds rather delusional. What about psychotic people? What about serial killers? What about desperate people? You’ll always have violence in a society. No matter how many freedom robbing laws are passed.