Yes.
More than one, and my first was at a young age.
I was raised a certain way, and my lessons on staying safe, and practiced plans started early. It was said I had "knacks" even as wee brat.
I was 3 years old , in a business setting, and my lessons , with practiced plans of what to do come into play. Security was good, and adults had practiced plans, just these were all done from an adults perspective.
I am shorter, add playing and being on the floor. My little gut felt something bad when some folks entered. They did not see me, but I could see them, and from a kids perspective.
I kept hid, using furniture to keep me out of sight and got an adult, and insisted they come to me, in a more back area, out of sight, and did my finger to lips, for quiet.
Those men were bad men, and had guns.
I did not have to be told, still I went to a safe place where bullets could not hurt me.
Attempted armed robbery and there was a gunfight in the business.
I was in my safe place, and I was not supposed to come out, until some special words were said.
Bad men were shot, none of my people were shot.
Special words were said, and I peeked out, and I was told again special words and assured everything was okay.
No bullets had come to where I was, but bullets had been fired into stuff, tested and verified for this very situation, and some folks had taken cover and no bullets made it through to other places designed for cover as well.
Police and Ambulance came. I am 3 years old and being mentored.
This is what real bullets to do real people.
I got to see these wounds, and I mean up close, I saw the eyes of the bad men, the pain, the screams and everything.
Business was closed for the rest of the day naturally. Police do reports, ask questions and I am asked questions.
I was the one that read some signals and got the my people, mentors, adults in action at a much earlier time.
I showed them everything I did.
This was a lot of attention for a 3 year old.
I knew about guns, I grew up around guns, and shooting and had started my own lessons with my very own .22 handgun.
Why a handgun instead of a .22 rifle for me?
Because being raised into what all I was, meant having a handgun on person.
So learn the handgun first, then I would learn the .22 , single shot rifle. Which is what I did.
I was born in 1955, so this would be 1958.
Software, not hardware.
While I was taking lessons shooting my gun, my lessons were about software.
Mentors had said I had "knacks" because of the way I acted, behaved, and did things.
Mentors, Cops, Ambulance people, and others said-
That day, my knacks, my lessons up that point, read signals early, which while there was gunfire exchanged, a much much worse situation was avoided.
Security was always being looked at, practiced plans practiced, time on the shooting range...
They added looking at things from a smaller height, and from the viewpoint of a 3 year old.
This business had a upstairs, including being able to look down, this gives another perspective.
I remember being upstairs while everyone re-played the event again, and from the upstairs viewpoint, one could not see, what I saw, and it deemed had these bad men been viewed from above, they would have missed the signals I saw.
I also remember adults getting on knees , sitting on the floor, even lying down to see what I saw from ,my perspective.
I also remember how human blood had a different coppery taste in my mouth than blood from game animals that had been shot.
This was my first serious situation.
I am not including having been around to put down a animal, or pest control around the property.
Software, not hardware.
Teach your children well, and start teaching them early.
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