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These days, one will frequently see on social media claims that while COVID-19 survival rates are over 99% - the real issue is the long term and permanent side effects.  Folks, if we have only known about this strain for six months, how on earth could we possibly know about long term and permanent side effects? Logic dictates we cannot.  Also - the actual survival rate is 99.975%.

This was too long to post on the Facebook page, and it also needed a blog post. In Star Trek fiction, the Kobayashi Maru test was the  no-win scenario. This same no-win scenario most certainly exist in the gun culture. Specifically, when people ask the credentials of an instructor. The no-win scenario comes in because there is no way to make everyone happy with the instructor's credential. If the instructor was a Navy SEAL, then the person asking will say they wanted an Army Ranger. If the instructor was an Army Ranger, then the person asking will say they wanted a Navy SEAL. If the instructors were a Navy SEAL and an Army Ranger, then the person asking will say they wanted Marine Force Recon. If the instructor was former military, then the person asking will say they wanted former law enforcement. If the person was former law enforcement, then the person asking will say they wanted former military. There's no way to win. Furthermore, even if the instructor matches wha...

Recently, I asked several military veteran friends how they thought I might attract more former combat military to my classes. They were very gracious in their responses. The one subject line that kept coming up was ego - on the part of combat vets. The questions still remained though - how to get past that ego. I asked five different men: and I got five different answers (not surprisingly). I did not expect going in that any of them would have the answer to the question. I did expect they would provide insight from different points of view. I was not wrong in my expectations. For the sake of clarity - vets who did not serve in combat roles and are honest about that will be lumped into the same group as most civilians - they have minimal training, and they have almost identical buying habits to civilians when it comes to gun classes.  The purpose of these questions was to attract combat vets. Based on the responses I got, here are the discoveries made: Not all civilians adverti...

Several years back, I was able to play witness to a small number of US Military Veterans really give a civilian a hard time about gun and tactical training that was being taught. The irony was that the civilian was actually teaching at the behest of most of these individuals just a few months prior. There had been some drama, and the vets couldn't seem to drop it. This was what really changed my mind as to whom can instruct firearms and tactics classes. Hence, this blog post - which was written shortly after the drama, edited over time, and was way back in the day set to post on the last business day of April this year. Over the years, my perspective matured and refined. Of course, during that time, I took multiple classes myself - and that helped mold my current opinion, as well. When I take a class and take notes, some of the notes are of what the instructor does well. Some of the notes are about relevant material. And some of the notes are about presentation of the material...

I keep seeing this meme about why you should wear masks.  It attempts to make a simile to why we wear pants and don't urinate on one another.  As usual, the Left and the Globalists can't meme, and this shows.    Cloth masks  do not work unless you combine with hand washing and social distancing.  Since the vast majority of people will not adhere to these strict guidelines, cloth masks are virtually useless.  A better simile would be that even though we all wear pants (hopefully), we can still all smell the other person's flatulence, as well as our own.