I. We have an aging society, and will continue to have an increase in older members of society.
a.
I was born in the last great decade, the 50's. Now back then we had Veterans of Wars, and Polio Victims.
We also had Widows, single moms, single ladies...physically limited, elderly...
There were no known "training schools" back then, unless one went into the Military, or into Police work.
The folks I grew up with, and I refer to Mentors & Elders, took it upon themselves to make sure folks had what they needed.
Mindset - folks had mindset.
Skill sets -many had skill sets, then again when a person comes back from war with an amputation, or blind in one eye, or limited range of motion (ROM) from injuries, these skill sets have to be accessed and something figured out for them and their ADLS (activities of daily living).
Tool sets - many hand tool sets as well.
In fact, I am going to flat come out say folks had more "tool set skills" than folks coming up today.
Folks had Software, and they could do more with a $1 pocket knife, or kitchen knife than folks coming up today. A simple cane, be it one they made, or Veterans Hospital gave them.
Guns: Folks did not have a lot of money. There was no credit cards. You saved up, did without, patched up and got by. Oh there was lay-a-way, and ledgers at the hardware store, or grocery store, but that paid off on payday.
Folks tried guns and knives others had, I mean they actually shot these guns, and whittled with knives, or tried one cleaning game, or doing electrical work or whatever.
Then they went down to the hardware store, and obtained one. Maybe they paid for it, as they had saved up. Some did lay-a-way, others did that ledger.
Why in the hell does nobody today thinks of our aging society is beyond me.
Everything is geared for a 25 year old stropping male, full of piss-n-vinegar.
In the blink of an eye, anyone, including this piss-n-vinegar male, with tactical guns, knives and martial arts skill can be physically limited.
They will be in worse shape than some 5'1" female that weighs 110 pounds sopping wet. That 80 year old grandma, with arthritis and brown spots and if she weighs 90 pounds sopping wet, it would surprise me. In worse shape than a 65 year old male that has had bypass surgery and hip replacement.
I know, I have seen it all my life, and I really got to see it when I worked in the Main OR of a hospital.
An 18 year old male, with martial arts skills, can become paralyzed from slipping on a football program at a ball game and taking a header down the bleachers.
Going from Able to Disabled can occur in the blink of an eye. This is what irks me to no end.
I have no problem with folks getting training , I have one hell of a problem with what some of us call - Students need a Guru & Gurus need Students..
I have a serious problem when I hear/read of everyone putting stock in Hardware, these guns, and knives and whatever the heck else "one gotta have".
Bull Chip!
I have seen too many cows, put down with a snub nose .38spl, using standard pressure, 158 gr loads, of Lead Round Nose, and Lead Semi Wadcutter.
Heck, I have done it, and the last time I did it was with a Colt Detective Special made in 1928 or 1929.
Don't tell me a hickory axe handle, cracked, and with electrical tape, will not get a bull, cow, mangy dawg suspected of having rabies, rabid raccoon, ...etc, to stop doing what they are doing.
It for damn sure will get a young fella that got loose from a work detail on a chain gang to sit his butt down on the porch and wait for Corrections Officers and Sheriff Deputies to come fetch 'em.
Young punk did not make light of a single shot .410 or that hardware store H&R .22 snub nose revolver the old couple had in had either.
Granted he really did not like the looks of that hickory axe handle...he for sure did not want to get hit with it again.
Old folks, with Mindset, Skill sets and Tool sets.
Not in the best of health, aches, pains, limited ROM and everything else.
But - they had Strategy & Tactics, and they had been married so long, they just worked as a team without even having to think about it.
Force on Force is great!
Still you take some of our aging society and they cannot. Folks with Osteo Arthritis so bad, they no longer can drive. Doctors orders. The fear is shutting a car door, or trunk and breaking a back.
My aunt, with Osteo, stepped out of bed one morning and broke her foot.
b. "Hands registered as a deadly weapon"
Coming up and for years we used to hear of this all the time.
It was in magazines, on TV shows, in the Movies.
Oh how the boys took up boxing and karate so they could be so bad-boy and cool, and get their hands registered as "deadly weapons".
Wanna be's. Oh yeah, it was a big deal to hear the boys carrying on around girls about "I can't get into a fight, my hands are registered as deadly weapons".
Face full of pimples, and they would not know a right cross from a weather vane, but they had the talk all right.
Get a group of boys dressing as they would, maybe toss some boxing gloves in a car, or get a "karate" uniform or "belt" ( hey the fabric store got stuff close enough) in a vehicle...
Hit the downtown areas, and later when outdoor malls, and even when indoor malls come to be.
Yep, sure enough even in the early days, little hints of "boxing" and "karate", and struttin' around to impress folks at the mall.
Yeah , well, maybe so. That old man would still kick his butt with his Rexall Drug Store cane.
The young man back from 'Nam, and missing an arm below the elbow, and blind in one eye would take 'em down before they knew what hit 'em.
Cocked & Locked bone stock 1911 with hardball...
Buck 110, and he knew how to do the "pop" and get that knife out.
Charlie...he learned some bad stuff from Charlie and using a knife...
Software...
It does not matter if someone has hands "registered" as "deadly weapons" or not.
One punch:
-The person with a detached retina may lose sight in that eye.
-The person that has had neck surgery, back surgery, may become paralyzed.
-The person just getting back on their feet, literally, from hip surgery, may suffer all sorts of serious repercussions.
-The 5' 1" young lady that weighs 110 pounds, may be knocked out cold and when she comes too, realized she had been raped.
Disparity...yeah.
One would hope the first responders would read the room...
would hope they would find witnesses , and would hope a judge or worst case jury would have some common sense.
One would hope the politics and societal attitudes of self defense applies and not submit as the gov't gonna take care of you..
Yes, one should do what they can when younger, as Mindset, SKillsets are necessary to build a solid foundation upon which can later "transition" to other Toolsets.
Terms and acronyms, make for easy commications of ideas and methods when discussing matters.
Not for being a wanna be.
Hey...These terms and acronyms are not a new thing. No more than some have recently discovered Robert Johnson, Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry, Duane Allman, or The Rolling Stones.
"Ten, Two & 4 " is not just the ad campaign Dr. Pepper used back in the day.
It is a self defense strategy and tactic.
Back then- Lessons (instruction/training) and Set Ups (stages, force on force) was done as well.
Royal Crown or RC for short is another one.
Uncola is yet another.
Moon-Pie.
So the whippersnappers only think of a Grandpa, referring to a RC and a Moon Pie as a soft drink and something to eat.
Not always, as Grandpa was raised right, and he remembers the aging society, the Veterans, and others passing forward how to stay safe and he learned as a brat some things.
Things to keep him from getting punched in the face.
Oh, never think a old woman putting Peanuts in her Coke is easy prey either.
Ah, the good old days...
Discussing staying safe and the old RC & Moon Pie vs Peanuts in Coke discussions.
*snicker
Fifteen cents for this, they call a hamburger, this ain't a hamburger! And what do they mean by "golden arches" in that advertising! Let me you show you arches, mine ain't golden, they done fallen, but I can make a hamburger, a real honest to goodness hamburger...! World is going to hell in a hand basket, I tell ya...
Female Mentor. About so tall, and she had to jump around in shower to get wet.
