"You know, if you go to first grade, and bite someone every day for a week, some folks are gonna think of you as a biter." --Art Mullen

why if someone uses violence against me, a gun is excluded for self-defense

Because some things are more important than losing the fight, worse than dying. And among those things? Is pride. If you have to stoop to levels to save your life, then how can you live with yourself afterwards? So you might as well die at his hands.

Really, ita, I don't know if you need to say anything except: "Well, if you come after me I will be taking several shots at your nuts if you leave that guard down. If that's a deterrent then that's the point."

The way Kelly pulled away the last nut shot cobwebs was thusly:

We're sparring, and she keeps nailing me in the groin. I'm trying to protect myself, but it's never really been an issue before, you know? "Why do you keep doing that?" I asked her. "Does it hurt?" she replied. I nod, she shrugs, and suddenly my groin kick defense got better and my groin kick itself...just...BAM! Reflex snap. All you have to see is that's open. Don't spend too much time paying attention to their sex or their gender.

In my years of karate, I saw numerous nut shots, and as far as I could determine, the guys' masculinity survived the indignity. Kicks to the groin weren't encouraged, but that was mostly because the instructor thought the knee was a better target in a real-world situation. Novices are dangerous, though. The instructor's theory was that once a guy gets a good nut shot, he realizes it won't kill him and he can respond better the next time.

So this afternoon, I swam, cleaned, got to snuggle a happy baby who dropped by for a visit AND just watched the fireworks at Ft. McHenry from the field at the bottom of my street. I'm calling a win.

THough I just remembered to eat dinner. Tomorrow: sails and planes.

WTF people, how have you been letting this nutshot guy troll you all day. No one would share his POV or let it guide their response to an attack.

The instructor's theory was that once a guy gets a good nut shot, he realizes it won't kill him and he can respond better the next time.

We only had one guy with that attitude. The rest of them learnt to defend against that just as they would any other high-value target.

In class I've never dropped anyone with a shot to the head, but I have dropped more than one with a shot to the groin. Yeah, they're not dead, but a lot of the reflexive reactions were not something they could curtail or just get through without taking a moment.

When someone's amped up on fight juice nothing hurts as much as it would if you were just sparring, but I still believe it's a target that's often presented, sometimes defended, and can end a fight without permanent damage and minimal exertion on your part.

No one would share his POV or let it guide their response to an attack.

No one except for the people that do, though. He's not the first person with this point of view I've met on the internet or in person. Trust me. He is not alone. So I wouldn't call him a troll based on the loneliness of his position, because it's not lonely at all. You know how many guys I gave their first "sanctioned" nut shot?

Trust me. If he's trolling he didn't pick an implausible line of argument to do it with.

I guess elementary school has changed a lot since I went, since just about every girl at our school took a shot at our nuts in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade and you learned to never stand open stanced to somebody.