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[Lizzie Poppet]

98. Unlikely...and in any case probably far less effective.

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The number of classes in any effective martial art that one could purchase for the price of a handgun and the ammunition needed for frequent practice at the shooting range would not put you in a position of being able to count on your training for self defense. Three of four months of classes is more likely to give a person just enough misplaced confidence to get themselves beaten to a pulp by a street thug with dozens of real fights under his belt.

If you're a small person (like me: 5/3" 109lbs), even years and years of serious martial arts training wouldn't be enough to give me a very good chance of prevailing against someone twice my size and with experience in real fights. It only works that way is shitty action movies and those ridiculous "defense classes" that have people beating on someone lumbering around in a padded suit, not in the real world.