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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
First off Lanny has already compared skateboards to baseball bats. Most people don't go out using a skateboard as a weapon, that's for sure. But let's just see what that old Google machine can bring us for news stories from this year (attacks didn't necessarily need to be this year) for baseball bats that Lanny would magically deflect:
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Don't be dense. Anything can be used as a weapon. I stated that a skateboard is no more dangerous than hockey stick or a baseball bat. The lethality of the weapon is what is the concern here, and what the expected response is. When you are carrying a lethal weapon as a means of protection, that is the decision you have to make. I suspect you clearly don't understand this because you've never gone through a weapons course or had the responsibility of a CCW. The response you take ultimately determines whether you go to jail. In the real world you don't get to pull your weapon any time you feel the slightest bit threatened, there is a measured response for each type of threat. Seeing as drawing a weapon can be seen as aggravated assault all the way up to assault with a deadly weapon, you must pick your sports carefully. Again, just by pulling the weapon you are subject to the same punishment if someone were to actually take a baseball bat or a skateboard and strike you with it. The lethality of the weapon matters.
To the stupidity of you hyperbole of magically deflecting an attack, no one ever said that. What I stated was if you are trained in self defense you can be prepared to deal with such an attack. If you can't run, or you can't hide from an assailant, then prepare to fight. Prepare for the engagement and do so where you assume control and limit the effect of the weapon. A blunt force weapon is much easier to defend against than an edged weapon. With a bat or skateboard you use the momentum of the attack to your advantage. You step into the attack and get inside the arc of the weapon and the sweet spot of the strike zone, gaining the upper hand and get into a grapple situation where you can leverage soft areas and inflict damage that can disorient or disable the attacker.
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Hmm, I'm on page 2 of at least 24...It's almost like blunt force trauma to the head by a solid object can kill people. I wonder if my research will win a Nobel Prize.
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You couldn't take away Pepsi's participant ribbon.
No one suggested that blunt force trauma to the head is not dangerous or lethal. What has been stated is attacks like this are controllable in a number of ways. Run or hide first and foremost. Don't engage someone who has a weapon. Don't put yourself in a position to get hurt. But if you have to, know how to take an attacker down and give yourself a chance to escape. Pulling a gun is not the solution to most situations as they put you in as much legal peril as a potential attacker.