You might be surprised by the martial artists who believe that martial arts training serves one purpose only. They claim they 'do not understand' any other explanation, and demand to be presented with more information, which they then reject utterly. It gets a little old.
Imagine being so stuck on yourself that you think your reasons for doing something are the only valid reasons. Ludicrous, yes?
I presume this is a jab at me. Very well.
Why would you think that? The post I quoted was quite clear that you don't think your reasons are the only possible ones.
No, it's a jab at me. What's funny is that when I brought up the college education in math scenario, all I get is a reaction. Why? Because he knows fully well that he would judge a math major in that situation, which then justifies what I'm saying here.
Well, no. I wouldn't care why someone wanted to study math, either. They can do whatever they want, for whatever reasons they want.
LOL. I must be feeling self-conscious. My bad. Something else for me to work on!
I call it pointing out the things you won't admit to.
Well, the guy running from the fight is the hulk.
Or perhaps you know yourself as well as I know you.
I don't think a gun helps most people. Home defense, maybe. But I've not seen any actual evidence that the good guy with a gun rhetoric is more than marketing for the gun companies.
But man, if you get that math problem, you would be such a stud! I taught myself to juggle in high school, and at the time I did it because I was interested. But I actually imagined someday, someone saying, "Hey can you juggle?" and being able to say, 'As a matter of fact."
The "good guy with a gun" narrative is mostly about someone coming to the rescue in the case of armed person causing a public disturbance. For example, a mass shooting.
LOL, yeah, but there are far more efficient ways to pay money to be a stud!
I personally think there are all kinds of great reasons to learn new things. Martial arts is no different from any other healthy hobby. Whether it's learning to play an instrument, cook, bake, play golf, or anything else, if you apply yourself to learning to do something new, and you try your best over a sustained period of time, you will be better for it. But it has to be a real thing with tangible results. If you're learning fight, you should learn to fight. If you're learning to do kata, do great kata. If you're learning to play the melodica, make music.
Not trying to argue with you. I'll try to be more clear, I think there's a lot of fantasy inherent in the feeling of safety some folks have when they carry a gun. This idea that, in a pinch, they're going to pull it out of their ankle holster or the cargo pocket of their shorts, or wherever they've got it stashed, and shoot some bad guys like Clint Eastwood in Gran Turino just doesn't play out.
I don't know if they keep stats on this. There are plenty of anecdotal examples out there, FWIW.
Yeah, I don't know about stats. I am 100% in favor of context specific self defense, and I think it looks different for different people. Self defense for a coed on a college campus is very different than from a software developer at Microsoft (I didn't add the link to this... FYI).
