LOL! Always told my kids not to start a fight but if they were attacked to end it. I feel the same-I won’t start one but I don’t give much either! Kudos to you and your kids.
I’ve always said learning about history/english/math is important, but if the kids can’t defend themselves, balance their checkbooks, be kind to animals, etc. what good is learning?
Law abiding people were killed yesterday because someone with no respect for the law abused the privlege of living in a free society. Passing more laws will not help one little bit-it’s like having locks on your doors-honest people don’t need them and dishonest people won’t heed them.
I have been under fire numerous times. Not that that in and of itself qualifies me for anything. I have witnessed folks freezing, panicing, and taking appropriate action. I personally have done all of the above. The biggest factor was training, followed by acculturation/experience.
It is a very sad day for many reasons. Our young are being taught to call 911, and not take individual responsibility. LEO managers and politicians enforce this self defeating behavior. Folks are being taught to abdicate their personal responsibility for their own safety.
I take a number of heavy duty drugs to counteract my PTSD symptoms. They work to some extent, but really slow your reaction time down. To counter this, I have gotten back into combat training, via Krav Maga. At 56 that is no small task, btw. The 20 somethings bounce right back, I sorta crawl back up.
My goal is to counter my increased reflex time with enough training time to pattern the reactionary behavior necessary to survive and protect others. As many others here know, your response to immediate threats needs to be on almost an instinctual level. That does not happen by watching others do it.
I fight dirty, I fight fast, I fight to win. You can always have someone else call 911, or do so once the immediate danger has passed.
I’d rather be called a vigilante, a war-crazed Nam Vet, rather than “he WAS such a nice guy”.
I know I have an active imagination at times. When I was young, I would go with my dad to deliver stuff he made, pick up steel etc. He would leave me in the truck while it was being loaded/unloaded and be gone for 20 minutes more or less. I would actually imagine that he was being held somewhere and I had to save him. I would think of ways to get to him. I have also thought of what I would do if something crazy happens when I am pumping gas with my kids in the car and it catches fire. Though I can honestly say that yesterday’s scenario has never crossed my mind. The only situations I have ever been in were medical (with my kids and a motorcycle crash, one of the first on scene) and I am glad to say that I seem to be a take charge yet calm person in those situations. The guy on the motorcycle should be thankful too. Some dumb broad was trying to remove his helmet until I started yelling at her. It was heavily damaged, we were literally one minute from two different hospitals, so the paramedics would be there soon.
I only go through scenarios of burglars when my hubby is out of town on overnight trips. On those nights, I plan how to get the kids in a closet, get the gun from the safe and call 911. :) Of course on those nights, it doesn’t help that the dog decides to hear “things” and start growling with hackles raised while cautiously walking over to the stairs at least once during the night! LOL!