SELF-DEFENCE: Common Myths and Misunderstandings | BlackBeltBarrister

I'm disabled only have one leg walk with sticks and ride about on my mobility scooter so I can't carry anything to defend my self I live in rough place I can't run away can't fight what men't to do hope member of pubic helps me no gives a monkey s around here any way great video s bud

What if you have bodyguards and they handle the problem how would that works…

the people who should be showing cation is the burglars go in someone's home with the intention of theft or hurting the occupant's if you get what's coming to you don't bitch about it it's simple the law has nothing to do with it useless bastards just want to hand out crime numbers anyway.

“Ignorance of the law is no defence”. This annoys me. Show me where I’d can read the laws of the land?

Carry a small super bright flash light, and record on your phone if you are in an altercation. Clearly tell the aggressor you will defend yourself unless they go away

My safety > The law

We are very the much the poor relations compared to the USA, my brother lives in Texas and has a Glock beside his bed and a Sig Sauer in the car, we can’t even carry a 3 1/2 inch lock knife.

Let's say I was surrounded by a crowd with weapons and I knew I was gonna be beaten or possibly killed and I had a beer bottle in my bag I could swing at them how would that stand up in court?

And this is why the Uk is a Pit for the criminals

The law is just so out dated you have to become a victim as am so full awera of

But why cant i carry a personal defence item such as a pepper spray for self defence, it is my body at the end of the day and my body is not under jurisdiction of anyone not even the government. I have bodily autonomy.

One of the best government systems for the rights of self defence is the Czech Republic, the Czech Republic actual respect a persons right to defend their lives from violence, so much so that a new law has just been passed in the Czech Republic to allow the citizens of the Czech Republic to own fully automatic machine guns fr home defence.

Unfortunately the law in this country is like a playground game, there is no real interest in defending innocent people or dishing out justice but beating each other like you would in a debate.... No wonder the scum of the land don't feel there's anything out there to put them off..

Forget self defence, just bend over and give them anything they want...
It’s all about making a money out of a useless justice system that protects criminals.

UK laws are really made for a perfect world, these self defence laws need to be revamped for this current day and age where the world seems to be a lot more violent that it was 20 years ago

Caw man, reasonable force is such a broken law. If you were to win in self defence than you would be using more force than you assailant by default 🤔. However the first strike law is some what comforting at least.

So I get attacked and my only hope is that I'm lucky enough to grab a rock or something. I hope whoever made that law got muged

A friend of mine was held up at knife point at his news paper shop in Sydney Australia. He pulled a baseball bat from under his counter and the attacker took off out of the shop. he chased him down the street and struck the offender on the jaw. As fate goes, my former boss a sergeant stationed in the local area and attended the scene, and called for immediate medical attention for the offender. The offender was laying on the pavement he was in a bad state.But unfortunately at the time the law allowed the offender to sue my friend for the injuries he sustained from the attempted robbery. My friend lost his house due to to the compensation claimed by the offender. The law has now changed where an offender cannot profit from the proceeds of a crime. A bit of a judicial chane but a bit too late for my friend.

If i’ve already been attacked, left permanently disfigured and the guy who done it went on to commit murder, where do i stand if he’s ever released and comes anywhere near my home?

It says i can use an object, is that correct?

I absolutely f*****g hate this country.
Basically, what you are saying is self defence is illegal.

Question I am keen to have answered:

Walking back home from the gym last sunday a man about my age (extremly drunk and still holding a plastic cup in his hand) was walking in my direction ( this is on the highstreet and he was heading the other direction presumably). However, once he got closer to me he very randomly went out of his way to block me from walking past him and was essentially, what can only be discribed as growling. Now, i took my headphones out and very aggrssively asked what he was doing and what was wrong with him and he VERY lightly punched me in the stomach (I'm talking more of a tap if anything. Not at all painful and honestly zero actual force seemed to be applied) - but both his fists were clenched none the less.

Now, I opted for grabbing his wrist and holding it down and asking what his problem was and probably threatening him (tbf i can't really remember). However, I thought many times in this 30 or so seconds of either headbutting him or choking him out. As, at the end of the day, he was in my personal space and was posturing aggressively and how am I supposed to know if he was carrying a knife etc?

I have, until watching this video, been under the illusion that I had to wait for this person to swing a proper punch at me first, before I could do anything about this (So thank you for this video). However it has been bugging me since then, as I feel I shouldn't have even let him get this close to me and I shouldn't have taken the high road. Not to sound like knob, but I am above average in size and have boxed for a few years and have some experience grappling, so I think it was more the fact that I was confident enough that because of how drunk he was, if he did swing for me I would have flattened him; so I didn't do the things I have thinking of/wanting to do. But anyway, context now given, what did I have the right to do in this situation legally? Could I have choked him till he was unconcious and gotten someone to call the police while i held him down? Or, was holding his wrist down and ultimately walking away while calling him classic english insults like p** the right thing to do?

Sorry I appreicate this is a long winded comment but, I really am eager to know what I should/could have done. I hate how soft we've become as a country and the whole thing has left me quite annoyed. I can't believe I let someone get that close to me and risked my own safety, because I was worried that I would end up being the one done for assault and had work the next day lol.

If someone attack is illegal to sprey pepper spray

The fact you cannot carry a weapon to defend yourself disgusts me at a core level.

Man you Britt's just lay down and take it huh

Honestly I don't care. If you try to hurt me or my family or break into my home then I'm doing everything I can to make sure that you are not moving after so you are no longer a threat to me or my family. How can you possibly judge reasonable force under that amount of adrenaline while your in danger?

I would add a personal story.If a police officer is trying to arrest you and disregard that you are calling emergency services as you are feeling sick ; if he insist to arrest you and obstructs you from talking to emergency services ; if you punch them or shove them in the process is can be considered self defense.

Our laws have been made to crush the life out of us. We have no rights because the laws have been made by elites for their benefit and our detriment. The law is a game that the elites play with our lives. Just look at Katie Price and her dozens of offences and she hasn’t served a day. If I had committed her crimes I would be in prison. The law is an ass. That’s deliberate.

I will choose to NEVER defend a country in times of war when that same country can jail us for defending ourselves in times of peace.

Some systems are not worth keeping.

Yet our rights state we can. The onus is on the officer to determine intent with the so called weapon one carries. Where there is no claim there is no crime.

What is "reasonable force" when you find yourself surrounded by up to half a dozen toughs who obviously intend to rob you,beat you up,or even "accidentally" kill you? And if somebody is carrying a weapon in the first place they clearly mean to use it. In the time the attack is taking place it is almost impossible to judge the severity or outcome,instant reaction being the life saving reaction. Very few people are used to being attacked or provoked in any way,so how can they be expected to react "appropriately"? The atmosphere in a courtroom discussing the incident possibly several months later can have no bearing whatsoever on the incident itself. Not only that,but by that time the "facts" surrounding the attack will have been distorted to such an extent that any justice will be impossible.

Got some news for you. The authorities plan an armageddon on the indigenous population. See the Funky Prepper. Like you, I'm a Dan grade in both Judo & Karate. In 2025 it all goes awry. Good luck.

The training you have takes years of practice, and the courses you advertise is not a five minute training, speed and knowing what to do with out hesitation is what will help you.

You are wrong, every human being as the right for defense of is own life when there is no cops around t is a Universal Law.

What a stupid country we live in. No freedom whatsoever. And as for everyone complaining in the comments why aren’t you signing petitions to get these ridiculous rules changed. It’s our country and they are supposed to be our public servants not dictators!!

The whole legal system is designed to good people lose their assets

Basically, UK law gives the advantage to the criminal.

If you carry a small compact torch which could be used to blind a potential attacker or used as a weapon - is that legal?

What about people breaking into your house? I read somewhere that a man can not be charged with assault if it's in his own home? I know the yanks can shoot them, but what can we do in the UK?

The laws are not there to protect victims. The laws are there to protect criminals. Always and forever

Our laws are pathetic in this area. Who decided this bollox?

Black belt try ufc

What about if it’s virtual like playing Mortal Kombat on the Playstation? Who is the aggressor then? What about special moves?

The law seems so unfair and seems to protect criminals. As a woman, how am I supposed to use so-called "reasonable force" against a man twice my size, or even just the average man attacking me? The average man is much stronger than the average women and I think people vastly underestimate this, I'm hardly going to be able to punch or wrestle him and I may not even be able to escape. But if I grab something within reach to hit him with and seriously injure and/or kill him that would be considered excessive even if I genuinely feared for my life.

I defend my self and family in a home invasion I didn’t hit any one but because I had a bat they arrested me for affray my son was having a epileptic fit at the time they where arresting read
Him his rights and he went away k. The ambulance
Fuck the police

Let's put this into perspective, shall we? English self-defence law is a minefield in many respects, but the idea that you cannot legally defend yourself at all is palpable codswallop. The only reason that self-defence cases where the law appears to support criminals get so much attention is because they are exceptional. There have been a handful I can remember in the last twenty-five years (the Tony Martin affair being the most obvious), which means there are very few of them, and inevitably the media goes into a frenzy whenever one comes along. Self-defence cases are an everyday occurance in England; many of them never get to court, and hardly any make the headlines, so the system works perfectly well most of the time. Please don't get carried away by cherry-picked, sensationalist piffle. You wouldn't judge the safety of air travel by focussing on the crashes, would you?

Walking stick or long umbrella are the 2 best things for self defence

I was convicted in a magistrates court for assaulting a council worker after he pushed me took it to the court of appeal. The conviction was overturned because the police lied and the body cam footage showed they didn’t pour me off him when in the magistrates court they said they did.

I’m a bouncer, I had a 6 foot 3 18 stone lad tell me for over 20 minutes he was going to knock me out and stab me. After advancing into my personal space I struck him once with my weaker hand. I genuinely believed he was going to hit me, now I’m charged and awaiting trial.

Say I was in a city centre and I witnessed someone trying to steal a bike, after verbally telling them to stop, would it be legal to grab them and push them away from the bike if they failed to stop and listen.