I agree with you 100 percent, Pete. I toted knives as a kid and got into plenty of brawls using my fists and pulling my knife was out of the question. Its a whole different generation and the degradation of the morality of the nation overall has to be blamed, not the kids. How we raise our children has so much to do with it. I see many people who learn from their mistakes when their first child turns out to be a demon and they raise their next child right who turns out to be totally different. My son can probably stomp most any kid's butt he's around and is big for his age and is a red senior (one step below black belt) in Taikwondo or however you spell it. But he attends church weekly, and has the brains to just turn around and walk away when confronted by some idiot at school because he knows THEY are not worth his satisfaction, and there is no telling what they might pull out of their pocket.