Quote of the Day
The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.
Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland
Posted on X July 25, 2026
Via Chuck Petra @Chuck_Petras.
See also Marko Kloos: Why the Gun Is Civilization.
It is my opinion that once people own a gun and go shooting once a month or so it changes them. They become more independent in many other aspects of their life. They see their relationship with the government in a different light.
Take a new shooter to the range. Get them started down a healtiher path.
This also explains why the lefts hates them, because they hate self-sufficiency.
As I read this it struck me that something rather similar can be said about martial arts. I’m reminded of a teenager with reading trouble — some of it discipline trouble. We suggested he might take up martial arts to help with that. It worked very well, and he made it all the way to brown belt.
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Re: “We suggested he might take up martial arts to help with that. It worked very well, and he made it all the way to brown belt.”
The shooting sports and the traditional martial arts belong on the same continuum, but in different places.
As a veteran of more than twenty years studying and training in the martial arts, and then teaching them – I have experienced the self-improvement and self-discipline effects they confer first hand in myself, and also in a great many students.
The traditional E. Asia arts are just as much about self-mastery as they are about fighting. Or as one martial artist said, “By the time you acquire the knowledge and skill to break someone’s arm, you no longer want to do it….”