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Street Combat – This Ain’t No Game! – Part 7 of 9, by Pat Cascio
Chapter Five
I NEVER THOUGHT… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people on t.v. news programs crying and saying, “I never thought it could (or would) happen here.” Excuse me, is anyone out there? Violent crimes can and do happen, right where you never thought they would or could happen. You must be prepared for the unexpected. If you’re prepared for the unexpected, then it won’t be unexpected.
One of my students (a mother) objected to the fact that I was teaching gun and knife disarm techniques to her three children. Her children between six and eleven years old at the time. I informed this mother that as long as she and her kids were in my self-defense classes, I was going to teach them these techniques. One of my assistant instructors broke into the conversation at this point and drove my point home. He asked the woman where her children are most likely to be when attacked with a knife or gun. She answered, “They’d be at school.” Well, she just didn’t get it and didn’t come back to class for six weeks. I guess she was a slow “thinker”.
How many times have you heard news reports about kids getting shot or stabbed while at school? It’s been too many times, I’ll venture to say. Some of my younger students have become quite adept at disarming students who are their same size. Additionally, the younger students can often times disarm some of our adult students, if they act fast enough.
I believe, in a real-life street confrontation, it’s better to attempt a disarm technique than to submit and be killed like sheep going to slaughter. I hardly think a full-grown attacker would ever suspect that a child could take away their knife or gun. This gives my students the element of surprise!
The following pages drives home the point I’m trying to make. These are all real-life incidents that took place recently. I believe you’ll recall some of them after reading about the incidents.
Just in the past few weeks alone, I saw (or heard) a number of news reports about victims of violent crimes. I want to share some of them with you, in hopes that you won’t become a VICTIM!
- A woman was recently assaulted by two other women in a grocery store. The victim was beat on the head with a jar of spaghetti sauce. Her “crime” was that she moved the grocery cart of the first two women.
- An armed man entered a halfway house with a gun. He was searching for recently-released, ex-police officer Stacy Koons (of Rodney King, fame). He wanted to murder Koons (reason, not known). Instead, a man servicing the vending machines at this location was shot and killed. How do you explain that to the victim’s family?
- On Thanksgiving Day, the stepfather of a six year old girl was punishing her (for a reason unknown to me) and ordered her to go to her room. She didn’t move fast enough to please this scumbag.
Source: http://survivalblog.com/street-combat-this-aint-no-game-part-7-of-9-by-pat-cascio/
