I feel an urgent need to convey this story..
Myself and a fellow member of this site went out for a few drinks tonight at a local dive bar. Even though we are not, it tends to be more of a rougher crowd at the local watering hole we go to (walking distance from my house, trying to be responsable[sp]). As usual at this place someone becomes upset with someone else and the tough guy in both comes out. At this point they both make it obvious that they have (illegal for the place/situation) knives on them.
Without anything being said we both start to head for the door realizing this is not a good situation and we should avoid it. During the walk home we (He is a Marine Corp/Iraqi Freedom Veteren) started talking about if one of us had been in that situation, where some intoxicated yocal were to pull a knife/weapon in a place we were not allowed to carry, what would/could we do? His response was "If everyone had the training I had there would be no bar fights." He contiuned on saying that the chair he was sitting in is much longer than a knife and if it came down to it he would be able to defend a knife attack with that chair.
We talked more about his training and my question is if everyone was taught some sort of defensive training class, would there be less violence?
To me this goes along with "If the crimanals don't know who is armed..."
I Don't think this is plausable, but I think it is a hell of an idea. I have a girlfriend who is young and naive and would never take a class like this, even though she needs it, unless she were made to.
Im sure this has been discussed before and I doubt my post will make a huge difference, but I am curious what your thoughts are.
P.S. sorry for the long post I am ranting and as a side note my girlfriend (thanks to me) does carry pepper spray (I am half way to converting her)
Myself and a fellow member of this site went out for a few drinks tonight at a local dive bar. Even though we are not, it tends to be more of a rougher crowd at the local watering hole we go to (walking distance from my house, trying to be responsable[sp]). As usual at this place someone becomes upset with someone else and the tough guy in both comes out. At this point they both make it obvious that they have (illegal for the place/situation) knives on them.
Without anything being said we both start to head for the door realizing this is not a good situation and we should avoid it. During the walk home we (He is a Marine Corp/Iraqi Freedom Veteren) started talking about if one of us had been in that situation, where some intoxicated yocal were to pull a knife/weapon in a place we were not allowed to carry, what would/could we do? His response was "If everyone had the training I had there would be no bar fights." He contiuned on saying that the chair he was sitting in is much longer than a knife and if it came down to it he would be able to defend a knife attack with that chair.
We talked more about his training and my question is if everyone was taught some sort of defensive training class, would there be less violence?
To me this goes along with "If the crimanals don't know who is armed..."
I Don't think this is plausable, but I think it is a hell of an idea. I have a girlfriend who is young and naive and would never take a class like this, even though she needs it, unless she were made to.
Im sure this has been discussed before and I doubt my post will make a huge difference, but I am curious what your thoughts are.
P.S. sorry for the long post I am ranting and as a side note my girlfriend (thanks to me) does carry pepper spray (I am half way to converting her)