Stephen King on US gun contols.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by privateer

I walk with no weapons that can be touched.
Trained by the U.S. Government.
I am a weapon.
There are millions of us.
We are called Veterans.

Not to impugn your unarmed abilities, but I have had full-contact sessions against a number of vets, and I had left unimpressed. While those techniques may be effective in the chaos of the battlefield, my experience there is no substitute for concentrated and formalized martial arts training, at least in isolated combat. The times when I've been rocked, and I mean really rocked, it's been by specialists.