Personal Protection is just that, something personal. No one can tell you as an absolute how you should exercise your rights to self defense. And anyone who tries to give you absolutes when it comes to your techniques, your moral values, your spiritual values, etc. Is either trying to sell you something or take advantage of you in some other way.

When one chooses under their own free will to come train with us at White Wolf Tactical, what they will receive as a patron is suggestions and perspectives on the various self defense scenarios we have the opportunity to cover during class. They WILL NOT have prescribed solutions to problems, nor value systems placed upon them. Each Situation is drastically different. Again, anyone who sells you silver bullets to take out the non-existent werewolves that live in your mind is lying to you.

Life preservation moments are virtually unreproducible. The attackers are not the same (big? tall? small? jacked? angry? on drugs?), the locations are not the same (in your car? in your home? at the mall?) even in these settings it brings into question the extreme unlikely-hood that any two locations have the exact same floor plans and furniture arrangements, which are guaranteed to have effects on your tactical decision making at the least. And just because you can choose to engage threats in your homes in this context, don’t immediately assume it is tactically, morally, or spiritually advisable to do so. On a side note with this one, just because you win the case in criminal court does not guarantee you will win in civil court in the event someone tries to sue you for losses created by the loss of the life you may have taken.

Regardless of where you live, how would you answer these questions?

1. Are you a willing participant in the encounter?
2. Are you in immediate fear of great bodily harm or death?
3. Do you have a reasonable means of retreat? (even states with “Castle Doctrine” or “Stand your ground Laws” this can still be used as a data point in your prosecution)
4. Was there any lesser force you could have reasonably used to stop the threat

Just because you have the right does not mean you should always exercise it. Just because the First amendment of our great nation allows you to call people names, does not mean you should exercise that right at all times.

Stay safe everyone, and please reach out with any questions if you have them.