And, interstingly, it isn’t Ian.
Someday John Correia will meet Jesus. As an ordained pastor, he has thought about how their first conversation will go. That is why he keeps his Heckler & Koch VP9 loaded with a 9-mm magazine in pristine condition. “You’re only going to draw a gun on the worst day of your life,” Correia told me. “You want to make sure the equipment works. I treat these mags like babies.” If he drops one and dents it, he never carries it again. “I don’t want Jesus to look at me and go, ‘How come you didn’t test your equipment, dummy?’ ” Better to be shot dead in a fair fight. “At the very least I want him to say, ‘He smoked you! He was better than you!’ And I’ll say, ‘Yes, Lord, I got smoked.’ ”
Nothing terribly noteworthy, in my opinion, here except that it’s not the usual my-side-or-their-side article about guns and people.
Never heard of the guy.
Never even seen a YT of his ever come up in a search.
It would seem like Christ was for defending your person and His people ( ie; anyone who beleiberc in Him and his message of total forgiveness ). Luke 22:36. “ Let him who is without a sword go and buy one “. We have a Divine right to self defense and protecting the innocent. I know that you, Zero, are an agnostic but at least these words from a God you may not beleive in confirm our right to be armed and not be victims to the oppressors and killers of this world.
Wasn’t jesus the one attacking people in the temple? What if one of them had pulled a concealed weapon and stopped his rampage?
whenever people start invoking God as a motive for their actions you are dealing with the worst kind of crazy.
God told me that I am perfectly sane.
Yeah, because all those atheists, like Stalin, Mao and Castro, were the right kind of crazy, huh?
Ya, just like the inquisition was for the good of God. And burning hundreds of thousands of witches or when they tortured Jews for cash for the Church.. And we won’t even talk about all the little boys. It might be a good idea for some organizations to clean up their houses before the tell me how bad mine is. At least I don’t claim to represent God, No doubt I’m a sinner. Sorry for the rant, but I’m a little tired of anyone who invokes their religion to tell me anything. I’ve never done anything as bad as ALL the religions have done in the name of GOD. Being a one time history major is a problem.
And Reverand Jim Jones was an OK guy?
You know, anonymous, saying “I’ve never done anything as bad as ALL the religions have done in the name of GOD” isn’t a logical basis for ANY argument. I’m glad you haven’t done anything as bad as “ALL the religions have” — I’d be shocked if you had, because that’s make you pretty bad. But then, I’ll bet none of the religious people who’ve commented here have done anything bad as “ALL the religions have” either. Just as there are lots of good atheists (probably … hopefully … a lot more good ones than bad), there are a lot of good religious people. Very few people on either side of the religious debate have done horrible things to their fellow man, let alone as bad as “ALL the religions have”. Thank God for that!
Having said that, though, more bad, by far, has been done by the atheists and non-religious of this world than has EVER come from Christians, Hindus, Buddhists … or even Muslims, a religion that expressly calls its adherents to violence. In their war against “the opiate of the masses”, atheists have tortured millions of people, murdered tens of millions, and ruined the lives of hundreds of millions. Furthermore, when religious folk do horrible things in the name of God (let’s talk Christians in particular, since I know more about their beliefs, being one myself), their sins and crimes are theirs alone, not God’s. God doesn’t instruct us to burn fellow Christians and Jews at the stake. In fact, both the Hebrew Bible (the old testament) and the Christian Bible (the old and new testament) call men to “love your neighbor as you love yourself. When asked, Jesus said the two greatest Commandments are to love God and to love your neighbor. In fact, the Protestant Reformation was started by practicing Catholics (think Martin Luther, for example) who cried out to the world that the Pope and Torquemada were violating God’s commands, and doing what they wanted, not what He wanted. Even Islam hasn’t done anywhere near as much harm in the world as the non-religious among us have.
Additionally, “[b]eing a one time history major” should not be a problem for you, whether you want to analyze things from a religious or non-religious perspective. Everything I’ve just said is historically accurate. (And BTW, this analysis comes to you from a fellow history major.)
None of this is to say anyone here must be religious to be good. It’s just to say religion is not the cause of the world’s problems. In fact, religion has more often been the basis for solving the world’s problems and healing old divisions. And I’d rather bet on God than Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min, or the countless other tinhorn irreligious and nonreligious dictator butchers history has cursed us with.
Ted
Excellent point you made Sir! People will mis use any and every thing they can to forward whatever twisted beliefs they espouse. It is not the message that is bad, it is the messenger(s).
And we are all sinners. But Christ offered forgiveness to any who asked Him for it. The only religion where you do not have to EARN your way into heaven. Gods grace gets you there. Just ask and beleive.
You may have studied history? But you failed Comparitive Religion. Don’t lump Hindus,Buddists,Jain etc. with the Abrahamic religions that are a stain on human history and bringers of more pain ,suffering and death than almost anything except bacteria or viruses. Don’t forget the Fascists and Nazis were directly tied to Catholicism.
Is he a relative of the author Larry Correia?
He has an excellent series with Mike Kupari.
Any info?
Larry has answered that before, they aren’t related.
MHI 1895
That was actually a pretty fair article. Stumbled across his site about a year ago. John’s one of the good guys, his narrations on his YT channel of real life fights do a lot to dispel the typical myths when it comes to knife/gun fights. Sure it’s armchair quarterbacking but if one person can learn something from it, it’s worth the watch. It’s amazing how blind people are in reality when bad things start to happen.
The attack videos he collects are an amazing library. These are real life, not gun class imagination. Watch them, and get an education on humans with weapons, and those attacked with weapons.
Most of the videos are outside the US, as the rest of the world is a lot more violent than we are. That being said, the mechanics of an attack don’t change that much from place to place. We are talking about humans, so there are regional differences in style, but not so much that it negates the lesson.
The only real criticism I have is that it appears that he doesn’t spend much time looking at the details that can be seen, so he often misses things that happen that give additional background to the story.
For example, in a store robbery, the clerk tried to grab the BG’s gun across the counter. During the struggle the BG heaved backwards and the gun discharged. The BG proceeded to shoot the clerk. What John missed was that the intital shot blew off a couple fingers of the BG’s left hand. You could tell by his face he was feeling the pain. So, the clerk getting shot was not a random response, which has been seen before.
One of the lessons of Johns videos is that if you decide to not give in to the BG’s demands, you have to bring your best game, and fight with the intention of destroying them. Because, if you fail, there is a high likelihood of you, and others with you, dying as a result.