Why Firearms Do Not Trump Martial Arts

Why Firearms Do Not Trump Martial Arts

1. The use of firearms and marksmanship is a martial art. If you want the overall name for gunnery in Japanese so you can have a -jutsu ending, it is called hojutsu.

2. A warrior (martial artist) trains in all manner of weaponry, methods, strategies, tactics, and ranges; including firearms.

3. A smart firearm owner will be trained in hand to hand combat and the use of non long ranged weaponry.

4. No one showers or sleeps with their firearm unless they are paranoid.

5. If the firearm jams or breaks becoming nonfunctional, you have no options for further defense, without knowing how to use the firearm as a bludgeoning weapon.

6. If you run out of ammunition or simply don't have any, you have become useless for your own self defense.

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7. The statement: "I have a gun" when seeing non firearm martial art is the statement of cowards and/or weaklings who probably couldn't use a gun successfully in self-defense.

Let's address your erroneous statement that everyone owns a firearm.

Only a moron would believe that 100% of people own, let alone, carry a firearm. This is clearly a statement made out of fear or lack of education.

Now let's address firearms as a martial art.

Firearms have limits in what they can and cannot do. The firearm might be the great equalizer in combat but it is not flawless. Firearms are meant to be used at range.

The 21 foot rule is an example of this limit with a hand to hand combat person against a person with a holstered firearm. If the hand to hand combat person is within 21 feet, then the hand to hand combat person has a very high chance of success with the firearm person being stabbed and cut multiple times before the firearm even gets to an effectively firable position.

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