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A reader writes in and asks: "What is a day in the life like (for a firearms instructor)?" I can’t speak for every instructor on Earth. But I am the world’s leading authority on what it’s like to be me. So here’s a snapshot, lifted from one random day. The Good A 21-year-old young man I’ve known for years stopped by the house. He’s one of my son’s closest friends. He wanted to show us the Smith & Wesson he just purchased. Would I have chosen that exact model? Probably not. But it fit him . And more importantly, he knew this was a place where he could share, ask questions, and get encouragement instead of eye-rolling. I taught his carry permit class a few years back. Watching students grow into thoughtful, responsible gun owners never gets old. Elsewhere in the day: • Someone registered for an upcoming class. • Someone else emailed with questions about whether a course was right for them. Those moments may look small, but they’re signals: people want to learn, and they tr...

AITAH for ending my relationship after my girlfriend said no to marriage? <<< The night I proposed, I tried to make the night as memorable and "perfect" as possible. I asked her after a nice dinner surrounded by the family, and she said "No, not yet anyways." ... [He then proposes a second time some months later, and she said the same thing.] ... I told her the truth, and informed her that I think we need to end the relationship. >>> Bro, you are right: "no" means "no." And she was telling you in no uncertain terms that she wanted more money from you. You dodged a bullet. Do NOT marry the next one.  Men, Women are the gatekeepers of sex, MEN are the gatekeepers of marriage.  There is no benefit for a Western Man to get married.  Marriage laws and the courts are 100% against you.  Marriage in the West is a financial contract where the female is incentivized to break the contract. Western marriage is not Biblical marriage.  No, y...

This list of observations about gun fights was written by John Correia in 2016. He reposted to social media recently. Here are the lessons learned. All credit to John Correia.  I've watched about 5,000 gunfights at this point, and the patterns that emerge are pretty clear. Some thoughts you might want to consider that I don't think that the training community really wants to hear: 1. Most gunfights aren't entangled gunfights. Empty-handed skills are important, but very rare once the gun comes out. They're necessary for LE more than CCW, by a long shot. For CCW, empty-handed skills are critical for the 80% of assaults that don't rise to the level of deadly force response. So go to your martial arts training. 2. Reloads are almost vanishingly insignificant factors in gunfights. I have seen precisely 2 reloads in a real gunfight that weren't on-duty LEO. And neither of those affected the outcome of the fight. I have seen about 7 or 8 where a higher capacity firearm...

New Category - "Don't Get Married" So I told my wife that our marriage isn’t the right fit for me anymore when she took sex off the table. <<< Insert yet another story about how a woman met sexual needs prior to marriage, then changed her mind once she got the ring (i.e. had financial incentive to end things). It ALWAYS happens this way. >>> Men, Women are the gatekeepers of sex, MEN are the gatekeepers of marriage.  There is no benefit for a Western Man to get married.  Marriage laws and the courts are 100% against you.  Marriage in the West is a financial contract where the female is incentivized to break the contract. Western marriage is not Biblical marriage.  No, you did not find the woman who is the rare exception.  All alimony is redistribution of wealth.  All child support is redistribution of wealth.  Redistribution of wealth is not Biblical.    80% of marriages end in divorce.  Women initiate 80% of divorces....

This author has been turning over two familiar assumptions that circulate in Western culture until they harden into dogma. In particular, they are repeatedly asserted by contemporary feminist rhetoric and by sectors of modern dating culture that benefit from the confusion these assumptions create. They are often treated as settled truth, when in fact they are partial ideas that have been stretched far beyond their limits. The assumptions are simple, and they are often deployed as moral cudgels rather than descriptive claims:  Women communicate better than men.  Women mature faster than men. Both contain a kernel of truth. Both become misleading when that kernel is mistaken for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In popular form, these ideas tend to morph into two claims that are flatly untrue:  Men cannot communicate, or cannot communicate as well as women.  Men never “catch up” to women in maturity. A preliminary warning is in order. Readers invested in ...

A reader writes: "In an old post , you said Reddit is a good source of entertainment. Don't you think many of the stories there are fake? That said, if you had one to add, what would it be?" First off, I am certain a number of the posts are fake. And many more have omissions, and other intentional and unintentional errors such that the entire story is not being shared.  Still, I find them entertaining. Why? Many of these stories recount tales of these people get angry with friends and family (or strangers) who wronged them. And that instance of being wronged is always so much less than I had to endure with my own mom growing up. There are so many of these, that I have an entire label dedicated to them.  For this one, you will need a few points of context.  Context 1 My grandfather died when I was 10 years old. My parents did not get rid of his old clothes, and instead, stored them in my closet. The clothes took up most of my closet, but that didn't matter because... C...