Men.

The last week, and I'm talking about the week of the poor Ukrainian damsel on the train viciously slain by a thug.

I'm talking about the Charlie Kirk killing murder, talking about the school shooting in Colorado, and who knows how many other acts of violence committed.

I don't think you should have needed that, but maybe that jarred some of you into taking your defense and the defense of other people right.

Because you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

If you would defend your life from violence, you ought to be ready and prepared to defend other people's lives with the same amount of conviction, gusto, dedication, willingness.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

I hope that this past week, if there's any good that can come out of it, it jarred some of the American men out of the lethargy, out of go along to get along, out of being so docile.

You were not commanded to be cowardly men.

You were commanded to be strong and of good courage.

From the Book of Joshua.

No man should be able to stand before you all the days of your life as I was Moses.

So I will be with you.

I will not leave you nor forsake you.

Be strong and of good courage.

For to this people you should divide an inheritance in the land, which I swear to their fathers to give them.

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses, my servant commanded.

You do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.

This book of the Law shall not apart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.

For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Have I not commanded you be strong and of good courage to not be afraid or be dismayed.

For the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go.

How about Exodus fifteen, The Lord is a man of war.

How about Second Samuel.

For by you I can run against a troop.

By my God I can leap over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect.

The word of the Lord is proven.

He is a shield to all who trust in him, For who is God except the Lord, And who is rock except our God.

God is my strength and power.

He makes my way perfect.

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer.

He sets me on high places.

He teaches my hands to make war so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Or how about the words of Jesus.

Let he has no sword, sell his cloak and buy one again.

Then you weren't called to be cowards.

You were called to be righteous, strong, brave men of God.

If that doesn't fit into Alpha Male podcast, I don't know what does.

I've talked before about the importance of good men being armed, but again, maybe this past week has shaken some of you up in a good way.

Some conviction, some fortitude, as we might have said in the Marine Corps, some intestinal fortitude.

With that, enjoy this content.

Why do we own guns?

Why do we own guns?

And there are likely many reasons.

Many many times people own guns because their job requires it of them and they don't even really care about guns.

Some people own guns because they like them, because they think they're cool, because they want to collect weird, obscure guns.

I guess a better question, why should a man be armed?

Why?

Should a man be armed bear arms?

Well, that's what we're gonna talk about today on Gunfighter Life, the podcast where we talk about all manner of things the right way, with God at the center, Judeo Christian values in real world firsthand experience.

Today's gonna be on that topic.

Why do we bear arms?

Why do men bear arms?

I'm gonna put in the bio of today just for some street cred, not for the regular listeners, not for those who know me or know about me.

But as the Bible says, no prophet has honor in his own country.

Perhaps there's somebody that you're trying to get through to that you think that they should bear arms, or you want somebody to understand why you bear arms, and you could talk to humntil you're blue in the face, But because the Bible is true, they may not listen to you because you're too close to them.

And perhaps the words of a stranger, that being me here, a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth, will will help.

And I'm here to help.

I don't do this podcast to help me.

I do this podcast to help you.

So let me put in the bio and then we'll get into the main topic with that first and foremost, I am a Christian.

I make no apologies for that.

It is first and foremost in my life.

The greatest of all the commandments.

Hero Israel, the Lord, our God.

The Lord is one, And you show love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

I don't apologize for that.

I am an alpha male, and as such I follow the ultimate male, the ultimate alpha male, the greatest man that ever lived, Jesus Christ.

A little bit about my background.

In addition to that, I am veteran.

I've been to war.

I served in both the United States Marine Corps, the Infantry, and the United States Army, both full time and part time.

National Guard said joined at seventeen, went to war more than once.

I also served in law enforcement.

I worked as a police officer in LAPD doing patrol assignments and more specialized assignments tracking down fugitives and those kind of jobs.

Also served as a private contractor for the US government and an agency for an agency I won't specify.

By God's grace, he got me through all that alive and in one piece, both physically and mentally, not because I deserved it, not because I was better than those men who didn't, strictly because God chose to have love and mercy on me.

In addition to that, I started competition shooting even before I joined the Marine Corps seventeen.

I've been blessed to win more shooting competitions than I can remember, both rifle and pistol.

Mostly most of my competition and championship wins, but I've also competed in you muzzle loader, archery, shotgun, knife throwing, hatchet throwing.

I've been very blessed with those talents and I try and use them and multiply them.

I've done quite a bit of hunting an outdoor I guess we'd say survival type activities, hunting and fishing all over this beautiful country.

I have been a professional hunter and guide.

Not many people today agn see they've been a professional exotic and big game hunter of things like bison and exotic animals, but I have been one.

I'm very blessed for that.

I've also gone out into the wilderness like God's grace for the Bible and a shotgun, and not just survived but thrived.

Also a professional firearms instructor for the United States Marine Corps.

I was an urban warfare and desert warfare instructor under Mahabby Viper.

I'm also an FBI certified firearms instructor and have been for a lot of years.

I'm certified by some other three letter government agency and a race certified instructor, and I have taught at one of the big name firearms shooting academies in the country.

So I've been very blessed to win many competitions and be a shooting instructor for military, law enforcement and civilians.

I have served as the commander of a tactical team.

My current full time job is as the leader of a tactical team.

Primary mission is a stop active shooters in a fairly large metropolitan area.

All right, enough about me and my bio, guys, let's get into today's topic.

Let's talk about men bearing arms.

First of all, you should probably know where I'm gonna start.

I'm gonna start with the word of God, the words of Jesus Christ.

Read letter words in your Bible in the Apostle of Luke.

How can you argue with that?

Let he who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

Let he who has no sword, sell his cloak and buy one.

Those the words of Christ.

Swords are a weapon.

Swords are not a butter knife.

Swords are not a bread knife.

A sword is not a screwdriver.

It's not even, like he said, an axe or a hatchet, which they certainly had, which could be used for all manner of tasks.

A sword is a weapon.

A sword is a weapon, It is an arm.

It is bearing arms.

Jesus Christ told his disciples, his disciples, the ones who followed him, who walked with him, to bear arms.

And when he said this, they produced swords.

They said, here are two swords.

He says, it is enough.

And nothing is hidden from Jesus right, he knows all things.

So he obviously knew that his disciples had been bearing arms, and he was okay with that, because he in fact told them to bear arms, and he knew that they had arms before that.

So why because Jesus Christ himself said, let he who has no sword, sell his cloak and buy one.

A couple of other verses, Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.

Psalm one forty four from Psalm eighteen.

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and sets me on high places.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

A man after God's own heart, David a man of war, a mighty man of war.

Now that's not all David was.

David was a multifaceted man.

He was a poet, he was a musician.

He was a king.

He was a warrior.

He was a mighty warrior.

He slayed beasts, lions and bear, so a mighty hunter.

He slayed a giant both with a sling he struck him down, and with a sword he cut off his head.

He was very skilled with that sling.

He knew the battle was the lord's.

But he was well armed.

He was well regulated, meaning well trained.

He trained.

He was good with that sling.

He went and gathered good stones for his sling.

He didn't just have a weapon and not know how to use it.

He was armed and well trained.

It's said, by the point he slayed Goliath, he had already slayed bears and lions.

Now I've never slain I've slain bear with a bow.

I've never slain a lion with a sling or a bear with sling, but I have to imagine there requires practice.

I remember the amount of hours I spent practicing in archery so that I could take my first bear with a beau when I was I want to say sixteen, but fifteen through seventeen, somewhere in there, when I got my first bear with a beau.

I know the amount of practice that it can take to be good with a beau.

So I have to imagine the amount of practice that David had with his weapons to be good with them.

Now in the battle is the lord?

The Lord was with David.

The Lord was with David in battle, and I should say something too.

But David still was armed right, and he knew how to use his weapon.

He was well armed, well regulated, meaning well trained.

And if you remember he went up now he eventually was in the army, obviously and had his own army.

But it was said he went up to meet the army.

He went up to take I believe bread.

Forgive me, I'm doing this out of memory, but he went to take bread to his brother's who in the army, which tells me that he was not actually in the army.

He was a citizen.

He was a well armed, well regulated citizen.

He was a man after God's own heart.

And it is written in Exodus fifteen.

Now the Lord is many things, but the Lord is a man of war.

Exodus fifteen.

The Lord is a man of war.

Now we must not be blood thirsty.

One must always temper this.

It is also written you shall not murder.

Now, there are many types of killing that are not murdered.

There is murder, there is manslaughter.

There is a justifiable use of deadly force, plainly laid out in the Bible.

Much has to do with the intent of the heart.

We must balance that and not use force unjustly or at the wrong time.

For it is written God will not justify the wicked.

And it is also written, if a man sheds blood by man, shall his blood be shed.

It has also written you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

How does one love his neighbor by using deadly force.

Let me use an illustration that I've used before, and I've had people use it back at me, So it must ring with some truth.

It must hopefully illustrate this point rather well.

Now, if now you hear my bio, I've been blessed by God with talents with a firearm.

If I'm in a movie theater with my wife, let's say, and I'm sitting there, well armed, well regulated, well disciplined, with firearm, and somebody comes in there, an active shooter and just starts killing people one every second, Bam, dead person, Bam, dead person.

What is more loving for me to do in that situation?

To sit there and do nothing, maybe curl up in a ball and suck my thumb, or with the most loving thing for me to do for my neighbor, my wife, the little kid, the old lady, the widow of the orphan, whoever is in that movie theater, and myself.

Because you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

That denotes that you love yourself.

You cannot love your neighbor as yourself if you don't love yourself.

Would the most loving thing for me to do be to get up and do a Mozambique drill that's two to the chest and one to the head and stop that evil man from doing evil things to save the lives of the people around me.

I would submit that that, in that situation is the most loving thing that I could do the greatest of all the commandments.

Hero is the Lord our God.

The Lord is one.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

This is the first commandment, and the second like it is this you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Now, we often will use the term self protection or self defense.

I don't know that I like that defense of life.

Preservation of life perhaps is a more fitting term than self defense.

Preservation of human life, whose responsibility is that?

Whose job is that?

I would submit.

As a man made in the image of God who says that human life is precious, I would submit It's our responsibility.

Men.

Now I plan on talking about much more in this episode.

I plan on getting into constitutional law, common law, things like that.

But maybe in a part too.

Many of you likely listening to this are already on board.

But maybe this is one that you want to share.

And I don't do this podcast to help me.

I do it to help others.

Feel free to share this.

I consider anything that I put out belonging to God, not me.

It is open source.

You share it with whomever you like.

We'll roll into the tactical tip of the day, and then the tactical verse of the day.

Tactical tip of the day.

It's the time of year we're in much of the country.

It is cold.

It is in the twenties and thirties here in northern Idaho.

Many of us like to use handwarmers from time to time, so it's we're going to be outside for long periods of time.

Those handwarmers, how they work.

They exchange iron into iron oxide, absorbing oxygen and producing rust at an accelerated rate, which changes temperature, which makes temperature rise, and that's why we use them as handwarmers.

But a secondary effect of that is that it removes oxygen and moisture out of the air.

So you can use these for many things other than that, especially if you have some that are still good but you're done being outside and being cold for the day.

One thing I just used.

I just was blessed by God to be able to slay a beast and put it on the table to feed my family.

And I don't apologize for that.

Just had a successful spot in stalk deer hunt here on public land.

It was raining, It rained that day.

It was pretty kind of miserable outside, but a successful hunt, so a blessed day.

I have one of those handworm where the gun was wet, so when I went to put it back in the case, I threw one of those handwarmers inside the action of that gun.

You can also use these from any other things.

If you are, let's say, putting up buckets of beans and rice, you want to keep them dry, you can throw an oxygen absorber one of these handwarmers in there.

You maybe have a camera.

If you're not a gun person, you want you have like a hard case for a camera, Maybe throw one of those in there.

They don't get so hot as to damage any kind of electronics that I'm aware of, and keep it in there to make sure there's not excess moisture in the air that could be damaging to electronics.

You've probably opened up a battery powered thing that has been stored too long, and the batteries are all corroded and nasty.

Anyway, that's your tactical tip of the day, your tactical verse of the day, even though you've there's been many already.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Who can know it.

I the Lord search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

That is a humbling thought.

God knows your heart.

Whomever else you may fool in this world with your actions, with your words, God knows your heart.

You can never hide anything from God.

You can never run far enough to get away from God.

God knows your thoughts, your intense God knows your heart.

With that, thanks for listening and have a blest day.