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What would you give to have a weapon you can always rely upon? What would it be worth to have a weapon that will disable or annihilate your attacker immediately? What would you do to own a weapon that required no registration with law enforcement, no carrying permits, and no inter-state or international permissions?
That would be a pretty amazing weapon, wouldn’t it? I know; you’re trying to guess which handgun, stun gun or Mace product this could be. Or maybe you’re wondering if this is a new style kick or punch technique? Maybe you’re even wondering if this weapon really exists.
Well the answer is, it does, and we each possess it. The ultimate self-defense weapon is your mind! Before you click off, think about this. What “tells” your body that there is danger and you need to do something? What “tells” your hand to reach into your purse and pull out your gun? What “tells” your finger to point that Mace at your assailant and push the trigger? What “tells” your body to load up for that roundhouse kick or palm heel strike? The answer is your mind.
By properly training your mind, you quickly empower and embrace your own personal security. You increase your perception to identify potentially dangerous situations before you are staring at the pointy end of a knife or the gun muzzle. By training your mind to understand and recognize criminal behavior, you increase your self-defense options for avoidance and potential de-escalation situations. By training your mind for situational attack scenarios you are laying the preparation groundwork to not be “the deer in headlights” if and when you should be confronted by violence.
Think of your brain as a filing cabinet. Everything you have ever learned, been exposed to or imagined has been properly filed in their respective files. Unfortunately for women, the file labeled self defense / personal protection is mostly empty. So when a situation occurs, whether it be sexual harassment, domestic violence, rape, or assault, most of us do not know how to react because as the subconscious goes to access the file to give your mind the tools to deal with the situation, the file is empty and we are left standing as a victim, not a defender of our personal well-being.
Take control of your own personal protection and self-defense success by honing the ultimate self-defense weapon – your mind.
To learn more on how to be the ultimate self-defense weapon, visit Women’s Self-Defense Institute at http://www.self-defense-mind-body-spirit.com.
Mom strangled daughter in self-defence: lawyer – Yahoo! Canada News
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Fri Oct 2, 8:49 PM
CALGARY (CBC) – A Calgary mother who strangled her 14-year-old daughter to death with a scarf should be acquitted on grounds of self-defence, her lawyer argued Friday.
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Lawyer Mark Tyndale asked the judge to acquit Aset Magomadova, allowing her to remain with her only remaining child, a teenage son with muscular dystrophy, in the final years of his life.
Magomadova, 39, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the strangling death of her daughter, Aminat, on Feb. 26, 2007. In closing arguments, Tyndale described out-of-control teenager who had a history of threatening to stab other students as well as teachers.
On the day of the killing, the mother and daughter were arguing in their home because the teenager didn’t want to go to a court appearance.
Aminat flew into a rage and swung a chair at her mother, Tyndale said. She then came at her mother with a carving knife and wouldn’t listen when she was told to drop it, he said.
Aset only put a scarf around the girl’s neck to force her to drop the weapon, Tyndale alleged.
“You have to remember that if you are faced with a raging person holding a knife, you don’t have to wait until you are cut, you don’t have to wait until you’re stabbed before you are entitled to defend yourself, which she did,” said Tyndale.
When police arrived, Aminat was dead and her mother told an officer she had strangled her daughter with a scarf.
Tyndale said his client’s testimony is consistent with the shock and terror of being attacked by her own daughter. “She never meant to hurt Aminat, never meant to kill her,” he said.
But Crown prosecutor Mac Vomberg said the argument about the knife doesn’t hold up, alleging instead that the mother was the aggressor.
He pointed out the teen tried to leave the home, and even took the advice of a social worker to stay in her room.
A Crown witness testified it took between two and a half to five minutes for the girl to die.
“When you consider how long it takes to strangle somebody to death with a scarf, no matter what your intent is when you start that, at some point in time you’ve got to realize this person is unconscious, she’s unable to respond, she’s not doing anything. At that point why else would you continue to strangle that person?” said Vomberg on Friday.
The judge will give his decision on Wednesday morning.
Magomadova came to Canada from war-torn Chechnya in 2004 with her sister and children.
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