Sotomayor and Your Right of Self DefenceFiled Under: Rantings
Let me just start by saying that I personally think you, (and I) have a legal, innate right as Americans to self defense. True, MMA is an entertainment sport and not a system of self defense per se, but martial arts are fundamentally rooted in the notions of self defense.
In Utah, we more or less have adopted a “Castle Doctrine” which is the idea that my home and my personal space, wherever I’m standing, (so long as its legal to be there) is my castle. If you attack my castle, I have a right to use deadly force to protect it. An officer from a sheriff’s office explained to me like this, “You should never be forced to flee where you are. You can stay and fight.”
When ass needs to be kicked, I think you have a legal right – yea, a moral imperative – to put fist into face. (But don’t take that for legal advice, no matter how awesome it sounds).
That being said, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has said some curious things about your right to self defense.
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Granted, the right to self defense relates to gun control and can be a sticky issue. So a senate hearing would be a good time to clear that up. I love how the Senator Tom Coburn asks her, “Do you have a personal opinion, or can you give me your opinion, of whether or not in this county I personally, as an individual citizen, have a right to self defense?” and she says, ” I don’t know.”
Yep. She doesn’t know. And for her opinion – she doesn’t know if she has one? Maybe the question was confusing.
Oh, but if she did have an opinion, it’s abstract and irrelevant. Kind of like how irrelevant it was that John Mccain wanted to ban MMA because it was brutal cockfighting. Or irrelevant that an “all natural cherry soda” with “no preservatives” also contains “no actual fruit juice”.
All I’m saying here is that its relevant.
Plus, she is wrong, because the Supreme court has ruled on the notion of self-defense and how it relates to the second ammendment – in the 2008 ruling, DC vs Heller.
On the bright side, Sotomayor does know how nunchucks work. (Go to about 2 minutes 30 in the vid) That’s comforting.
But hey, what do you think?
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Tags: political drama, self defense, sotomayor, your right to punch someone in the face
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- 21 Jul 2009 10:31 AM
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July 21st, 2009 at 11:21 am
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July 21st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Oh, brother. If this theory of self-defense rights continues, what martial art is left to us. Maybe we’ll have to create our own form of martial art that doesn’t look only like a martial art, like the Brazilians did with capoeda.
Maybe is could be break dance fighting, like on Zoolander, but with a better name.
On the nunchucks. Granted, my experience with them is limited, but I must always have used them wrong because I have never seriously injured myself.
Oh, and they can take my MMA when they pry it from my cold, dead… nevermind.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Yeah…. oh btw. It was Hansen’s “All natural cream soda”.