Okay, I agree with both of you. Licensing is only as good as the agency doing the licensing.

You are right. Child care providers are licensed and there are still bad child care agencies. But you both neglect to take into account how many persons, both young and old, that martial arts affects.

A ...

I understand what both of you are saying. I don't agree with MA splitting itself up. After all, it is a business and I think it largely depends on what area of the country you are in.

I know that Tae Kwon Do, for example, is taught in this area by Koreans. They band together and take care of their ...

I think the incident you are thinking of in New York went as follows:

There were four detectives. One went into arrest a supposed drug dealer. As he was at the man's front door, a neighbor came out and started to walk to the front door of the building. At the front door, he reached into his pocket ...

Last year, New Jersey tried to license instructors and now this year there is a similar law in North Carolina.

Has martial arts, in general, grown to the point where it can no longer control itself?