All self-defense is "you go girl". Or almost all, anyways.
You are not a ninja. You are not trained as a police officer, military enforcer, or bodyguard. You will freeze up when it comes to lethal fight-or-flight.
The self-defense should be "here's the money, don't hurt me, if you don't need the ID could I keep my driver license? The DMV sucks.", and then reporting it to the cops while reciting to yourself as much physical description as you can of your assailant... Or shoot them until the threat is removed before they get into melee range. Immediate divorced lethal force, or submission. Your ability to judo throw someone going along with the movements isn't going to impress a nutcase with tweaker strength. Your ability to STAB someone with tweaker strength isn't going to impress them, they probably won't even feel it.
Problem with that is, a growing class of criminals don't want your money. They want to beat you up if you're male or rape you if you're female.
Good luck reporting anything to the cops. Best case it'll just be another file that gets ignored due to being understaffed and the justice system being overloaded with cases. Worst case it actively gets ignore because the perp has a politically inconvenient skin color.
All self-defense is "you go girl". Or almost all, anyways.
You are not a ninja. You are not trained as a police officer, military enforcer, or bodyguard. You will freeze up when it comes to lethal fight-or-flight.
The self-defense should be "here's the money, don't hurt me, if you don't need the ID could I keep my driver license? The DMV sucks.", and then reporting it to the cops while reciting to yourself as much physical description as you can of your assailant... Or shoot them until the threat is removed before they get into melee range. Immediate divorced lethal force, or submission. Your ability to judo throw someone going along with the movements isn't going to impress a nutcase with tweaker strength. Your ability to STAB someone with tweaker strength isn't going to impress them, they probably won't even feel it.
Problem with that is, a growing class of criminals don't want your money. They want to beat you up if you're male or rape you if you're female.
Good luck reporting anything to the cops. Best case it'll just be another file that gets ignored due to being understaffed and the justice system being overloaded with cases. Worst case it actively gets ignore because the perp has a politically inconvenient skin color.