WolfMansDad
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Before I was 16, many times. After 16, almost never. On my sixteenth birthday, I got my drivers license. The next day, I drove down to the local dojo and signed up for karate (wado ryu).
Lots of fighting before 16, but only two stories worth telling. The was when I was in 4th grade, and a pair of sixth graders said they would kill me if they caught me alone. They didn't, but they did catch a littler kid (2nd or 3rd grade). They beat him up, threw him in a ditch (big one, six or eight feet deep with big rocks at the bottom), and tossed pieces of cinder blocks down on him. He got a concussion, and they went to juvie. (The little kid never came back to school. His parents took him out after that.) The second time was in 8th grade. One of our class bullies said he was going to kill me, but before he could get around to it, his gang did a home invasion and killed an elderly couple. They all went to kid jail.
After karate started, trouble essentially stopped.
I think bad guys can tell when you are not worth messing with. When you have trained a lot in a martial art (and gunfighting is a martial art), you have an air about you that says, "Leave this one alone."
Lots of fighting before 16, but only two stories worth telling. The was when I was in 4th grade, and a pair of sixth graders said they would kill me if they caught me alone. They didn't, but they did catch a littler kid (2nd or 3rd grade). They beat him up, threw him in a ditch (big one, six or eight feet deep with big rocks at the bottom), and tossed pieces of cinder blocks down on him. He got a concussion, and they went to juvie. (The little kid never came back to school. His parents took him out after that.) The second time was in 8th grade. One of our class bullies said he was going to kill me, but before he could get around to it, his gang did a home invasion and killed an elderly couple. They all went to kid jail.
After karate started, trouble essentially stopped.
I think bad guys can tell when you are not worth messing with. When you have trained a lot in a martial art (and gunfighting is a martial art), you have an air about you that says, "Leave this one alone."