ive got a friend who is some specialist in some weird martial arts im not sure of the name. but his body is registered as a lethal weapon because he knows how to kill people with no weapon. i was shocked that people have to register body parts
"My whole body's a weapon!" - Luther Heggs
This is bull****
You HAVE to walk away. I've had jobs where I've been called every name in the book and I can let it roll off my back, but where my wife's concerned, it's much harder. A guy once made fun of my wife (she's a little overweight) in a restaurant and after giving him dirty looks and shaking my head no a couple times at him, it just got worse with him and his buddies. LOTS of thoughts of what I would have done 10 years ago kept going through my head but I told her, "let's just leave", we got up and left. I kept apologizing to her that I didn't do anything about it, but if I had started fighting with this guy and the cops showed up, I would have been the one going to jail because I'm the one escalating the situation and I'm carrying. She understands completely. Sometimes you have to swallow your pride and if your woman really cares about you, she'll understand. It may not feel like the "manly" thing to do, but it's the smart thing to do.
I do not think that people have to register their body parts as 'lethal weapons'. Hasnt this always been an urban myth? My older brother is as high as you can get in his martial art and teaches in his own schools in California and we have always joked about this.
But,as a current or former professional fighter or practicing martial artist, it is like carrying a gun with a permit-you are at greater liability when getting into it with other people. You carry the greater force against another person regardless of who started the skirmish. Same as if someone 5'4" 110 starts something with someone 6'4" 210. The bigger guy should just laugh and walk away.
As far as the OPs question- just walk away. Or if you cant,try to stash the gun with someone as discreetly as possible, and protect your self. Derrr. Then explain it all later to a cop or a judge or to your lawyer. Whatever.
(You really think (RKL) I am going to roll up in a little ball like a little ***** and just LET someone beat my azz? Lolllllll).
IMO,which doesnt mean much (about .80 cents) ,its just not smart to get into it with people. People are way more litigious today than they were when we grew up. (Unless there are no witnesses,then by all means,**** somebody up). Things just dont get settled with your fists any more like they used to be. They will draw you into a situation then when the fight is over and you have beat their ass,then sue you for their hospital bills, or worse. I have worked way too hard just to hand over someone (besides a wife divorcing me) the keys to my house and fork over my hardearned money because of a stupid fight.
Same as with a gun. I got my CCW just to be able to survive an attack by someone else with a gun.
Unless someone is bigger than me- I'm only about 5'10"x 265 w/ 17" arms and 17" neck- I am going to do all I can to get out of the situation. What you other badboys do is all your business. Laugh if you will,but my invitation to box someone a few rounds in a controlled environment has cooled a lot of hot heads off over the years. I'm 40,not 20 any more, and my knees are almost shot from all the crazy shi t I did when younger-playing MMA fighter is something I am training my 12 yr old son to do,not me. I'd rather just smile at the idiot and walk away with my money and house safe and my pride and ego intact. If you think that is a ***** approach then you must be younger or richer than me or still have something to prove. I dont. I did my years of it when younger. I fought my fights. Time to be a man and walk away. I get someone all the time invading my personal space,or circle, who I know I can easily and want to take out. But I dont. My wife hears me grumbling about doing this or that and just giggles and says "come on old man lets get you out of here before you get hurt". Now thats humbling. How does she know I wont hurt them???
My father was a big man-6'3" x 280 or so solid rock. He was Scottish-Irish,his grandparents on both sides were immigrants. He had those mesomorph genetics- easily built muscle. He also possessed what I had heard all of my life to be known by friends and family as the 'jackhammer punch'. When he was a young man he fought a lot I heard. Back in the days when things were solved by 'going out back and taking care of it'. I only saw him fight a few times as I grew up,but I heard the stories of when he was younger. His father had been a bareknuckle match fighter in the 20s,30s. My dad was so big I guess he just didnt get messed with much,and then as he got older he just mellowed out. He had been a good football player in college,became a Marine DI and MP,was a boxer and martial artist,learned more martial arts while stationed in Korea, and came home to California after his time there and became a cop while running a martial arts school from our home in the late 50s thru the 70s instructing Goju-ryu and Kook Sool won. My brothers and me came up learning boxing and martial arts from my father,and we all wrestled in school- my older brother and younger brother were both state champs,and as we grew up we all competed in martial arts 'points' tournaments all thru school (I remember seeing Billy Blanks and Cynthia Rothrock compete in the same tournaments,always in the finals). Later my older brother fought professional in the now defunct PKA in the 70s and today runs a couple of schools in southern California. I boxed a bit after highschool but hated looking all beat up trying to date girls and gave it up to go to music and art school. Later as I was in my career I met Mstr Gary Dill and got more heavily involved in JKD. I had been doing JKD as a teen in California and even worked out with Terry Gibson when he was still alive when I was visiting my mom in Tulsa during the summers. Over the years I have always had a bag hung in every house Ive lived in or in the back yard hung in a tree, and have kept up a light boxing and martial arts regimen,as well as lifting.
I got nothing to prove myself. I just love to sit back and watch some MMA with my 12 yr old son who loves it too and he maybe wants to do it some day. He already has his black belt at his school he attends. He's wrestling in school. He cant wait to get a little older and start lifting and getting bigger. He's gonna be a big kid. I was 200lbs in the 9th grade and benching in the 3's and hes on track to be bigger than that. He's in a 32x30 pants size,weighs about 140 or so,and already has some decent guns on him.
Thats it. I have an idea. Get in a fight,just send your kid out there to handle it for ya. lolllll.
But,as a current or former professional fighter or practicing martial artist, it is like carrying a gun with a permit-you are at greater liability when getting into it with other people. You carry the greater force against another person regardless of who started the skirmish. Same as if someone 5'4" 110 starts something with someone 6'4" 210. The bigger guy should just laugh and walk away.
As far as the OPs question- just walk away. Or if you cant,try to stash the gun with someone as discreetly as possible, and protect your self. Derrr. Then explain it all later to a cop or a judge or to your lawyer. Whatever.
(You really think (RKL) I am going to roll up in a little ball like a little ***** and just LET someone beat my azz? Lolllllll).
IMO,which doesnt mean much (about .80 cents) ,its just not smart to get into it with people. People are way more litigious today than they were when we grew up. (Unless there are no witnesses,then by all means,**** somebody up). Things just dont get settled with your fists any more like they used to be. They will draw you into a situation then when the fight is over and you have beat their ass,then sue you for their hospital bills, or worse. I have worked way too hard just to hand over someone (besides a wife divorcing me) the keys to my house and fork over my hardearned money because of a stupid fight.
Same as with a gun. I got my CCW just to be able to survive an attack by someone else with a gun.
Unless someone is bigger than me- I'm only about 5'10"x 265 w/ 17" arms and 17" neck- I am going to do all I can to get out of the situation. What you other badboys do is all your business. Laugh if you will,but my invitation to box someone a few rounds in a controlled environment has cooled a lot of hot heads off over the years. I'm 40,not 20 any more, and my knees are almost shot from all the crazy shi t I did when younger-playing MMA fighter is something I am training my 12 yr old son to do,not me. I'd rather just smile at the idiot and walk away with my money and house safe and my pride and ego intact. If you think that is a ***** approach then you must be younger or richer than me or still have something to prove. I dont. I did my years of it when younger. I fought my fights. Time to be a man and walk away. I get someone all the time invading my personal space,or circle, who I know I can easily and want to take out. But I dont. My wife hears me grumbling about doing this or that and just giggles and says "come on old man lets get you out of here before you get hurt". Now thats humbling. How does she know I wont hurt them???
My father was a big man-6'3" x 280 or so solid rock. He was Scottish-Irish,his grandparents on both sides were immigrants. He had those mesomorph genetics- easily built muscle. He also possessed what I had heard all of my life to be known by friends and family as the 'jackhammer punch'. When he was a young man he fought a lot I heard. Back in the days when things were solved by 'going out back and taking care of it'. I only saw him fight a few times as I grew up,but I heard the stories of when he was younger. His father had been a bareknuckle match fighter in the 20s,30s. My dad was so big I guess he just didnt get messed with much,and then as he got older he just mellowed out. He had been a good football player in college,became a Marine DI and MP,was a boxer and martial artist,learned more martial arts while stationed in Korea, and came home to California after his time there and became a cop while running a martial arts school from our home in the late 50s thru the 70s instructing Goju-ryu and Kook Sool won. My brothers and me came up learning boxing and martial arts from my father,and we all wrestled in school- my older brother and younger brother were both state champs,and as we grew up we all competed in martial arts 'points' tournaments all thru school (I remember seeing Billy Blanks and Cynthia Rothrock compete in the same tournaments,always in the finals). Later my older brother fought professional in the now defunct PKA in the 70s and today runs a couple of schools in southern California. I boxed a bit after highschool but hated looking all beat up trying to date girls and gave it up to go to music and art school. Later as I was in my career I met Mstr Gary Dill and got more heavily involved in JKD. I had been doing JKD as a teen in California and even worked out with Terry Gibson when he was still alive when I was visiting my mom in Tulsa during the summers. Over the years I have always had a bag hung in every house Ive lived in or in the back yard hung in a tree, and have kept up a light boxing and martial arts regimen,as well as lifting.
I got nothing to prove myself. I just love to sit back and watch some MMA with my 12 yr old son who loves it too and he maybe wants to do it some day. He already has his black belt at his school he attends. He's wrestling in school. He cant wait to get a little older and start lifting and getting bigger. He's gonna be a big kid. I was 200lbs in the 9th grade and benching in the 3's and hes on track to be bigger than that. He's in a 32x30 pants size,weighs about 140 or so,and already has some decent guns on him.
Thats it. I have an idea. Get in a fight,just send your kid out there to handle it for ya. lolllll.
TO me it really depend on were you are atI would say if you are in front of a bar in bricktown. Tere should be it should be public enough that you could just walk away. Or you girl could be callen the cops (to me if you carry a gun you should carry a phone)
If it has made it way to a parking lot nobody around and it is to the point where he is close enough to do somehting. I think it would have to be your desition but for me if the guy is a muscle head UFC wanna be I am not much of a brawler SO I go fo the gun. But it would have to be up in my face litteraly about to hit me or already has becuase if my gun is pulled it is not for show.
If it has made it way to a parking lot nobody around and it is to the point where he is close enough to do somehting. I think it would have to be your desition but for me if the guy is a muscle head UFC wanna be I am not much of a brawler SO I go fo the gun. But it would have to be up in my face litteraly about to hit me or already has becuase if my gun is pulled it is not for show.
I am 50yrs old, have had my share of fights. Since my injury in Iraq with two surguries to my neck, and a possible third in my future, I'm not about to go toe to toe with anyone. I'll walk, heck I'll run if need be, but if I'm in a position where I can do neither I will shoot. A punch being thrown at my head or upper body can be lethal in my case, and I can articulate such. With that said, I will go out of my way to stay away from area's an places where that kind of behavior is common, and I try an maintain a polite manor to all I meet.
A woman being raped was furthest from my mind and not at all what I was saying. However, if you were to witness a woman being raped I think you would be justified in using lethal force against the attacker.
I've witnessed MANY fights and am yet to meet an innocent victim. I'm sure it happens, but I'd say it's by far the small percentage.
The bottom line is if you're man enough to take some smack-talking from someone you will not most likely have to fight them.
Bryan
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