“Spending my teen years in the ghetto caused me to grow eyeballs in the back of my head, and to develop a level of heightened awareness that was almost animal-like”
The time you spent there is to your advantage. Now you have the “street smarts” to survive if confronted with violent criminals.
“I also started making sure that I had a firearm within easy reach nearly all the time. Don’t know how many times I almost used it.”
I have drawn my gun twice in 30 years, and not used it. It is amazing how looking down the barrel of a gun takes the spunk out of would-be muggers ;-)
FReegards,
SJB
Yep. Those "street smarts" and "radar" have saved my bacon many a time in my adulthood.
I paid a high price to grow that awareness, though. I just can't bring myself to subject my own kids to that sort of environment "for their own good".
In their case, there's going to be a lot of weapons training in their upcoming home school years.