Weapons stack the odds so much in favor of the attacker, I wonder whether all the effort expended to develop unarmed defensive skills is wasted. Maybe more effort should be spent learning how to recognize and avoid dangerous situations/individuals. Maybe more time should be spent in a bodybuilding gym to better look like a tough customer rather than looking like a potential victim. Isn't it more efficient to deter an attack than to actually repel one?
Of course if you're a soldier in a warzone or law enforcement officer there may be no other recourse but to engage, but for the rest of us?
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". . .sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts." H. Murakami
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