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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...