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I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV. Your local association should have a clear understanding of the issue. However, they can live in fantasy land so... Your best bet is the local branch of your law enforcement agency. You can ask them and they should be able to tell you. After all, they should know. Failing that, a trip to a criminal lawyer may ...

Am I allowed to use Krav Maga for any case of self-defense? Of course you are, within the normal parameters. You will only use what you need with the amount of force required in order to defuse and escape from a situation. The amount of force that is considered "legal" will differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction based on current law and precedent case ...

This is a tricky grey area. In general I agree with @Sard. But I also feel compelled to mention this: You are probably more accurate saying that "cold-carry" is not illegal, that in itself doesn't make it legal. And carrying a piece of paper with the law printed on it is not necessarily going to impress a law enforcement officer - if they cannot book you on ...

In German laws there is a term which could be translated as 'self-defense-excess'. The classical example is shooting children from your cherry tree in order to prevent them from stealing the cherries. That is forbidden in general (easy to understand). In the special case that your excess happens out of asthenic affects (i. e. due to fear or terror), that ...