Steve Western

@Manhattva The only appropriate response is "go pound sand".

The Left is a gatekeeping cult.

@monsterhunter45 Thanks...having read your book "In Defense of the Second Amendment" I understood you know your stuff. Appreciate you passing this knowledge on.

I've said this before but the single best bit of training that anybody who carries a gun should get is Shivworks ECQC, Extreme Close Quarter Concepts, taught by Craig Douglas. I see so much fucking stupid shit repeated online when it comes to armed self-defense, and so much of it would be cured if people actually pressure tested their beliefs. That's what ECQC does really well. You guys know I love guns. I love to shoot. I do so way better than average. I carry everywhere I can, religiously. If I'm wearing pants, I'm most likely armed. But I recognize that the gun is just a tool in the tool box and it's not always the correct answer. In a lot of circumstances its the wrong answer, or its the make the problem worse answer. Or it's the right answer, but the other guy is so close I don't have a gun, WE have a gun. That's what ECQC is for. There's shooting, but it's not really a shooting class. There's lots of places you can go and purely learn to shoot fast and accurate. What shooting there is in ECQC, it's really really close range, like entangled with the bad guy range. There's a reason for that and it's more complicated than you might think. That's where the concept of timing comes in. There are circumstances where drawing your gun puts you at a disadvantage and now you're wrestling for your own weapon. But then I've got to listen to the internet bullshitters go off about how that'll never happen to them because of their super honed SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. Uh huh. Suuuure. But anyways you're in luck, because a big chunk of ECQC is about that, as well as the psychology of human predators, the tells to look for, and what Craig calls MUC (Managing Unknown Contacts) ECQC has a lot of role playing in it. You get partnered up with other students and one of you is playing the good guy and the other is playing something. Maybe an aggressor. Maybe something innocent. But like real life you've got to manage it and figure it out. Then there's a bunch of scenario based exercises using sim guns. These are actual pistols modified to shoot angry little paint balls (which can leave nasty welts!). That's good. When you get hit, learning occurs. This is the force on force part, which I absolutely love. ECQC is way more physical than regular shooting school, but Craig's been doing this a long time. He doesn't just take a grandma and put her up against a D1 college wrestler. He's good at figuring out where the students are at, and giving them challenges accordingly. The goal is learning and improvement. So it isn't just getting beat up for three days (though some of us are into that). I started taking jujitsu because of my first ECQC, where I learned that I'm great at shooting people, pretty decent at punching people, and turned to jello once knocked down and grappled by someone with real wrestling experience. (don't worry, the internet bullshitters will never let anyone take them down, and if they do, they'll just stand up. You don't understand their MINDSET. They see red and and Drowning Pool's Bodies Hit The Floor starts playing) You don't need to be a fighter, gunslinger, or martial artist to get something out of ECQC though. The MUC and scenario based role playing is worth the price of admission. The feedback from the instructors and (often very experienced IRL) other students after your evos is great. You don't just shoot people, but then all the cops and use of force experts in class critique if you would've got charged for it or not. You go over what you perceived and why. You find out real fast how fallible the human memory and eye witnesses are. You look at your decisions and whether you could've made better ones. Whenever I talk about things like hand to hand skills or pepper spray I always inevitably get some dudes posturing and talking tough about how they'd just shoot them. Except there's a whole lot of ground between aggressive nuisance asshole and psycho in clear and objective need of ventilation, tactically and legally. If your only tool is Fucking Shoot Everybody you're setting yourself up for failure in all the non-Fucking Shoot Everybody situations, and the accompanying legal trouble and expense (this class costs the same as an hour or two of a decent lawyer's billable rate). So if you carry a gun and you already know how to shoot okay, I highly recommend taking ECQC to expand your horizons.

@Cernovich They have the rudest salespeople in retail.

REI is a Mecca of hating Whitey. I only go there now during sales. It’s all white people but signs of “this is stolen land,” and other nonsense. But their sales are great.

@Mrgunsngear @SGTWipper1Each It's play acting

@SGTWipper1Each No. Everyone knows this.

For 10 years, women have been allowed to fill all combat roles in the US military. Should they continue or should the positions go back to men only?

@ChaseThomason When did we start referring to rain as a monsoon?

ACTIVE MONSOON: The latest seasonal outlook from NOAA is starting to paint a pretty interesting picture for Utah this summer. The July-August-September precipitation outlook is leaning wetter than normal across much of the Great Basin and Four Corners region…a signal that could point toward a more active monsoon season for Utah. That doesn’t guarantee nonstop storms or an end to drought concerns, but it does suggest the atmosphere may be more favorable for moisture surges out of the south later this summer. More monsoon moisture would mean increased chances for afternoon thunderstorms, localized flash flooding, and a little more cloud cover during the hottest part of the season. What really catches my attention is the bigger climate setup developing in the Pacific. We’re heading away from ENSO-neutral conditions and trending toward El Niño by late summer and fall. While El Niño has a stronger influence on Utah during the winter season, it can also subtly reshape the summertime jet stream pattern and moisture transport across the Southwest. After a few quieter monsoon seasons recently, the long-range pattern may finally be tilting back toward a more active summer thunderstorm setup across Utah. We’ll see if the atmosphere follows through over the next couple of months.

@MaryBowdenMD I remember a few years ago attending my son's graduation from Arizona State and being one of the very few men wearing a jacket and tie.

I’m at my son’s highschool graduation. Sadly the vast majority of men are not wearing a coat and tie… many look like they’re dressed for the gym. When did this become the norm?

@ZubyMusic Number of children per family

If GDP per capita is the best single measure to approximate the economic health of country, what is the best single measure of its social or cultural health?

@Manhattva The best charity is starting and operating a business.

This is 100% true. With a couple of exceptions like the Church and their charitable giving for the most part, The vast majority of charities are just scams to distribute wealth. The best charity is a good job and a good product at a good price.

@WeaponsVault The AR platform

What’s the most American gun? Which rifle is the epitome of the United States? 94 Winchester M1 AR15 1911 Or something else Just curious what everyone else thinks

@AWRHawkins All the guns I inherited from my Dad and Grandpa

A gun you will never sell?

@Tammerry @Manhattva He jumped straight into a job at Fox News

@AltaSkr @Manhattva Cut him some slack. Do you know his private life? Maybe he had something going on.

I really like Jason.

@phil_lyman 90 percent of the population doesn't want the gondola but we're getting it anyway.

Every family in Utah will pay $1,500 for the gondola. Another back room dirty deal.

@AWRHawkins Why don't you carry a straight blade?

A gun and an Emerson Knives folding knife, two things I never leave home without.

🚨#BREAKING: USPS has announced that they may Soon Allow People To Ship Handguns Through The Mail For The First Time In Nearly 100 Years

@Manhattva We could start by defunding it.

It’s this simple.

@KimballCall Benny, Andrew and the Daily Wire are providing an excellent example in real time of how to destroy a business in just a few easy steps.

Guys, we are not representing ourselves well in the comments here. I get that Klavan missed the point a little bit, but he also makes a good point. We need to relax. It’s not that deep. We don’t need to be snowflakes.

@andrewklavan @RealMattFradd @SouthPark @SpencerKlavan Thanks Andrew...you just reinforced why the only person from the Daily Wire I pay any attention to anymore is Walsh. You, Benny, etc drove yourselves to irrelevance.

While my friend @RealMattFradd has been criticizing the LDS church, and Mormons (and fake Mormons) have been expressing outrage (and fake outrage), I went to see "The Book of Mormon," by the @SouthPark guys. Here's my reaction essay to @SpencerKlavan at The New Jerusalem substack. thenewjerusalem.substack.com/p/laughing-at-…

@OwenBenjamin He got Covid and Ukraine totally wrong.

I remember 8 years ago most people I know listened to Ben Shapiro, now no one does. I don’t know a single person who listens. Why did you stop listening to Ben Shapiro?

@GarandThumb1 Now

When do you believe the golden age of firearms was? Is it now? The 1920’s? 1960’s?