 Lies and the lying liars who tell them Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and today we are going to read this article And it is titled Opinion here's the reason people tell me they want to buy an AR-15 and it's simply Ludacris I print it out so we can read through it first off I just like to point out and I'll try to post a screenshot here when this article first popped into my Twitter feed It was titled. I own an AR-15. Here's why you should not Apparently they decided that title was a little bit too honest and later edited it So by the time I clicked on it that the title had changed. So this article is by Michael Finoni finone. I don't know how to pronounce that. I'm pretty sure he might have testified about the January 6th The riots back then can't quite remember don't quote me on that part But really all we need is this article to show that he is in fact a liar or an idiot But likely not an idiot due to some of the correct things he says in this article most likely just a liar I will post a link to the article down below so you can read it and enjoy it for yourself But here we go no weapon has been more in the public eye of late than the AR-15 in large part because of its Tragic role in some of the country's deadliest shootings. Okay, so right from the start right? He sets it up incorrectly our rifles every year kill less people than hammers More people are beaten to death with hands and feet then are killed by rifles by all rifles So right from the start you can see where this is gonna go The AR-15 has the dubious distinction of being America's most popular semi-automatic rifle Let's talk about that dubious distinction I looked that word up just to be sure it wasn't crazy and the word means fraught With uncertainty or doubt doubtful or of questionable character, right? We would say someone has the dubious distinction of being a mob boss or the dubious distinction of writing an opinion piece for CNN We would not say that a rifle has dubious a dubious distinction What they're trying to of course slightly work in there slowly is to get you to doubt that the AR-15 is a valuable tool Which we're gonna get to in a bit, but even from the start his language is this subtle attacking Well, it's a dubious distinction. Why why should that be the most popular rifle? I'm more familiar with the gun than most people I own one Just one what kind of rookie numbers are those and one thing I know for sure is that this weapon doesn't belong in the hands of the average Civilian okay again. He's subtle with this terms to manipulate you average civilian. What does that mean? Is it what about an above average civilian doesn't belong in their hands? Of course not what he means is all civilians, right? And again, this is why I disliked this word civilian What he means is people that aren't law enforcement like he's a former law enforcement officer or Military right if you're not one of those two jobs and you don't deserve the tools to save your life You're just a civilian You don't of course have rights and your rights are determined by your job And since you don't have one of the special government jobs then of course you shouldn't have these special tools I have multiple firearms for most of my life I spent two decades in the Washington Metropolitan Police Department in a number of different roles as a street cop walking the beat and on various special mission units So he's trying to set up his credentials here He's trying to show you how much he knows so that he can then tell you don't get rights I'm also a card carrying member of the National Rifle Association and when I wasn't at my job doing police work I worked part-time for several years in firearm sales as well as training law enforcement officers members of the military and Civilians again notice how he lists civilians last right? They're not important You have the police which you know either former police officers of active blue and then the members of the military They train them how to do the pew-pews and then you know well I mean the civilians I'd be really curious to see his numbers and as far as how many people he's trained and what he taught them I purchased my different guns over the years for the same reason that you might purchase a flathead screwdriver along with a Phillips screwdriver each one serves a different purpose as an avid hunter I've got a gun that I use for turkey hunting one that I use for waterfall and one that I use to hunt deer and larger game like elk I Mean okay, that's that's fine. This is one of the true things he says in here right people use different guns for different purposes I agree Notice again though guns are for hunting right that's where he's going back to well I have different guns because I go hunt different game and that's why I have different guns But you know nobody needs an AR-15 right I purchased my AR-15 because I was assigned one as part of my police duties But officers weren't allowed to take a department issued weapons home Now again, he says department issued weapons now That's probably not true more than likely took his pistol home I don't know of any police department that does that Correct me if I'm wrong here But also what he means is they weren't allowed to take the patrol rifle home right because the patrol rifle sticks with a car Tip I felt it was my responsibility to become proficient with any weapon I've been assigned to so I bought one and I've spent hundreds of hours training so I could properly use it Okay, now hey credit where credit do I agree if you're issued a weapon you should know how to use it So I guess I'm glad he bought one in that sense However, he says he spent hundreds of hours training the average police officer in this country gets about 16 hours of firearms training a year Okay, that's average across the board 16 hours of firearms training That means with an instructor telling you what to do helping you become a better shooter 16 hours It's a two-day course. I just took a three-day course recently. I'm more trained this year than most police officers in the nation Okay, remember 16 hours is average So I mean some get less than that maybe some get a few more maybe 24 right, but that's not happened So he says hundreds of hours So keep that in mind 16 hours a year and that's not of course not all rifle right that's all pistol So if you got rifle training every year for 16 hours, then I guess you could hit that hundred hours mark more than likely What he means is hundreds of hours Practicing now practicing is of course good, but he did not I'm very doubtful Received hundreds of hours of training on the rifle Furthermore, I teach a one-day rifle class lots of people teach one two three five-day rifle classes You can learn how to use a rifle in an eight-hour block of time shit You can probably learn how to use it in four hours and be pretty proficient enough with it proficient enough to not do anything Stupid and shoot intruders are coming to your house rifles particularly air 15s are incredibly easy to shoot Meaning to hit what you want with them, right? They're not that difficult and it does not take a lot of time on a rifle to be able to use it correctly and safely So this idea that I while I had hundreds of hours of training because I was a police officer So I know what I'm doing, but you're an incompetent civilian. That's of course a lie He's going on to talk about his qualifications here I've sold guns at big-box retailers and I've sold firearms at a small retail gun store I Be really curious to know what small retail gun store existed in Washington DC area, right? I mean it was probably an outlier town But again in that part of America, I'd be real curious to know what store that was some gun buyers have been misled into thinking The AR-15 is somehow practical for self-defense Okay, let's stop right there. Of course. It's practical for self-defense I have taken I don't know well over a dozen training courses now from very high level guys You can check it on my website at least every class I've taken Even the best pistol shooters that I've taken classes from use rifles to protect their house Why because again, it's easier to use it's easier to hit what you want with it And it's a more effective cartridge against bad guys than a handgun cartridge So that's why we use rifles the better at stopping people from trying to kill you That's why the police carry rifles. They're better at stopping people that are trying to kill them I want the gun that the we pray the police show up with that would only make sense So again, this whole idea that people have been misled into believing that they're they're actually used for self-defense That's a lie and he probably knows it's a lie He's gonna go on to explain it and it'll get more interesting, but frankly, it's the last gun I would recommend for that purpose He doesn't mention what the gun is that he would recommend for that purpose. He just says AR-15 bat I've pressed some customers about why they want an AR-15, but no one could ever come up with a legitimate Justification for needing that particular weapon Here's a legitimate justification. I want one That's a perfectly legitimate justification. See this is America and in America You don't need to explain to people why you deserve the right to self-defense We believe that it's an inherent human right that you are endowed with by your creator Therefore, I don't have to explain shit Not only that let's be honest if even if there was a reason no reason would ever be good enough for these people Except hey, I work from the government and I'm here to oppress you in which case they would say well, of course We need to give these people weapons that they're doing our jackbooting job Point being a legitimate reason Isn't a thing Okay, that's not we don't need a legitimate reason other than hey, I want one and that's good enough Some members of the tin foil hat brigade have come up with a reply We need these weapons because we want to be effective against the government if it becomes tyrannical That's part of our second amendment right Personally, I think that's ludicrous But it has become an increasingly popular justification for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle Has this idiot never ever read a history book now again probably has he's just lying right We just lost in afghanistan being there for 20 years To some goat herders who have broken ak's and some cobbled together explosives The greatest superpower in history lost To again some goat herders with broken semi-automatic rifles and cobbled together explosives So don't tell me that they're somehow not effective for fighting the american military additionally Armed populaces Do not succumb to tyranny If you again read history Every population that's ever been attacked abused tyrannized was unarmed And populations that were armed have been able to stave that off It's one of the reasons we haven't fallen to tyranny here and afghanistan is an excellent example When the soviets invaded afghanistan in the 80s, they were armed to the teeth Also, we supplied them with weapons and they were able to defeat the soviets right same thing when we took our turn in afghanistan Point being that armed nations don't succumb to tyranny So i don't know why he calls it the tin foil hat brigade Because of course the second amendment exists so that the people are equipped to fight wars The thionic fathers didn't believe in standing armies So which is correct by the way. They were correct in that belief And so the people should of course be equipped and ready to fight wars So of course we want weapons that can Fight wars the air 15 was given to law enforcement because more and more frequently police officers were Encountering these types of weapons on the street and finding that they were out gunned One example that springs to mind is the famous 1997 north hollywood california shootout at the bank of america Okay. Yeah, that's been a thing since the 30s, right? Um Police officers have had started carrying a bigger guns long guns, right shotguns rifles bar's tomson submachine guns Because they had to get in gunfights with bad guys and bad guys had to go to equipment So That's part of the game If i guess if you're not willing to do that then find a new job. I don't know what to tell you I don't get to lose my rights because someone does something bad That's just silly in that incident two individuals cladden body armor held up a bank in los angeles neighborhood Police who responded to the scene literally had to run to a nearby gun store to purchase more powerful weapons I don't think they purchased them. I think they commandeered them And they grabbed guess wait wait for it air 15s Because they were using nine millimeter pistols while the bad guys were armed with semi-automatic rifles Okay, now this might just be an editor thing, but nine millimeter is nine space m m So again, it might be the original author It might just be the editor who doesn't understand But I find that really interesting standoff was one of the most infamous gun battles in american history with 11 officers wounded Luckily, none fatally and both robbery suspects shot dead while it's an extreme example It is in many ways the situation encountered by police officers all across this country Police are simply outgunned against semi and fully automatic firearms number one I'm pretty sure one of the hollywood shooters was done in through the head by our 357 magnum not Some a r15 that they had to go get from a local store, right? So that part isn't true. It is definitely true that these guys were getting pegged with nine millimeters And they had kevlar on and so you know if they were able to take it and just keep on trucking He says police are outgunned by semi automatic and fully automatic firearms one I'd be super curious to see the crimes or fully automatic firearms are used Show me the last police gunfight with a fully automatic weapon. There are some but however, there are not that many We're talking maybe a handful every year Those numbers are extremely low So that again, of course is a lie and semi automatic firearms pretty much all firearms are semi automatic With the exception of course like pump shotguns, you know, bolt action rifles or what say you but all handguns are semi automatic That's how guns again pretty much work in the modern world So this idea that if you have the same gun I have me being a police officer I have a semi automatic handgun you being a bad guy. You have a semi automatic handgun I'm outgunned all of a sudden because you have a semi automatic handgun again He's intentionally lying to you to just get you to do what he wants The bullet that comes out of the barrel of an ar-15 style semi automatic rifle can easily penetrate the target Okay, let's stop right there. That's actually not true The fbi did extensive studies on this And found that ar-15s and rifles tend to stop in the assailant And do not tend to over penetrate as much as wait for it pistols, right? Because ar-15, you know, we're just talking about the 223 round They're going so fast, right that they hit and they fragment and tumble into whatever it is that they hit, right? So they have a less tendency to go through bad guys. Can they still do that? Sure, of course However, they have a less of a tendency to do that They also have a less tendency to penetrate Walls and structures for the same reasons because they tumble and fragment Unlike again handgun bullets. So I'm just going to read that sentence again The bullet that comes out of the barrel of an ar-15 style semi automatic rifle again Notice he doesn't mention caliber there notice. He just says ah that style Can easily penetrate the target the intruder or whatever person you are using deadly force to defend yourself or others from Again lying, right because that's that's not the true and it's a police officer for 20 years He probably knows that but it will also go through the wall behind that person And potentially through that room and into the next wall that power and accuracy But it will also go through the wall behind that person and potentially through the room and into the next wall That power and accuracy are useful for military purposes, which is obviously what they were designed for But it's far more power that should be ever in the hands of the average civilian Okay, again, absolutely lying right that that's a verifiable lie. The FBI has done extensive studies on this It's just a lie straight up The power and accuracy I notice how he brings accuracy in here when it has nothing to do with what he's talking about The power i'm assuming again. He means the bullet, you know ripping through seven city blocks because that's what ars do Um and accuracy but accuracy has nothing to do with it. He just throws that in there for military purposes What what are military purposes? Shooting bad guys. What are self-defense purposes? Is it all shooting bad guys? There we go Again, he uses this term average civilian What is again above average civilian below average? What does that mean? What it means is people who don't have the special government job The bullet fired by the air 15 is capable of defeating the average police officer's body armor Like a knife slicing through butter. I really like that dramatic Example of a knife slicing through butter. Is it cold butter because cold butter is kind of difficult point being Right most police police officers wear soft armor and rightful rounds Penetrate soft armor because soft armors, you know what level 3a and of course rifle's gonna go through that That's just physics swat teams and some of the more specialized units typically are equipped with level 4 Kevlar or steel plated armor. Okay, so that's super interesting Level 4 Kevlar. I know what what is level 4 Kevlar? That's not a thing. We use ceramic for level 4 plates or there's maybe some kind of cool hybrids now, but ceramic right Level 4 steel plate again. What is what is what is that? You you're not gonna be able to find a steel plate. That's level 4 armor. You have to even ar 500 armor Uses ceramic plates for the level 4 armor because steel plated level 4 armor isn't a thing Again, he's lying to you or he's an idiot I don't know how you can be a police officer for 20 years and now understand basic armor level distinctions At least he gets the level 4 correct, which would maybe stop Which would stop maybe two or three direct hits But eventually our body armor breaks down after being hit with multiple rounds Okay, so if it's steel armor, right? We can get an ar 500 armor plate here and we can ding ding ding ding all we want on that sucker Now you might have some small issues or whatever, but that bullet is not going through that plate anytime soon There are tons of armor tests, right? You can watch level 4 armor tests where they are spitting like a full mag into level 4 ceramic plates and it's not Penetrating also, are you just going to stand there and let someone shoot you multiple times? That's just silly if you let someone stand there where they dump an entire mag into your chest Well, I'm sorry, but you probably are in the wrong line of work So again, he's doing everything he can here to make it as scary as possible by lying to you A person wielding an ar 15 has a range beyond 300 yards That part's true actually, so For an officer armed with a nine millimeter pistol again nine, it's nine space mm. I don't understand Hitting a target beyond 50 yards is going to be difficult That's because they suck at shooting Even for the most accomplished marksman Okay, I'm not saying a shot beyond 50 yards is easy. Okay, I would say that's when it starts to get good, right? But if you can't hit an eight inch circle at 50 yards, you know, maybe find a new job That's just a random thought here even for an accomplished marksman Accomplished marksman like let's say a jerry mitchell like he's a pretty accomplished marksman jerry mitchell like Can shoot a snub nose revolver upside down with this pinky and ding steel at 200 yards. Okay. I'm not making that up I've seen the video. It's actually pretty cool point being That for an accomplished marksman they can of course hit beyond 50 yards that that that's absolutely a thing But again, he's trying to make it sound as scary like pistols are basically useless and don't do anything All these people now they have 15s and they're just absolute murder machines And so that's what he's trying to do Lying is an effective tool if you just do it the whole article a bullet fired by an air 15 travels at three times the velocity as one fired by a nine millimeter handgun Again, that's that's actually mostly true And magazines that can feed dozens of rounds into the weapon in the space of minutes Clearly were meant for use only on the battlefield Okay, so that's just absolutely overly dramatic, right and has nothing to do with anything Notice he says dozens of rounds a mag holds 28. Okay, so I guess that's that's over two dozen rounds A pistol magazine holds, you know 15 17 rounds So that's that's more than halfway there depending on how you're going to count So i'm not And mag swap if you can't change your mag in a couple seconds Well, then I guess you're getting a wrong line of work point being he says minutes It can feed dozens of rounds in minutes I mean, I'm surprised you didn't go for like the seconds or milliseconds there because Again, it's just it's not that intimidating even in this dramatic retelling The prevalence of these weapons means police are sometimes overmatched as we saw with the mass shooting in Uvala, I don't know how to pronounce the city Uvala, Texas, I don't know how to say that last month in a situation where you have small children near the shooter You want to remove the threat as quickly as possible. Okay, we're going to come back to the police being overmatched part in a minute Okay In a situation where you have small children near the shooter You want the shooter removed as soon as possible So if the shooter is just not around smoke like again, that's a stupid sentence Of course, you want the shooter removed as soon as possible. That's what all active shooter training has evolved around For the last 20 some years you go in you find the bad guy you shoot the bad guy That's pretty simple and straightforward What gun they have is irrelevant Because the border patrol agent who actually did shoot the bad guy did it with a shotgun Which is probably one of the worst weapons you could have had in that situation But he got it done I have no doubt that police in uvalada wish they had weapons as powerful as the one carried by the shooter Who snuffed out the lives of victims in that school? But a far better outcome would have been if the shooter didn't have an air 15 in the first place Again, absolutely a lie. The police had armor and air 15s Stood outside for last time. I saw it was an hour and 40 minutes something like that Um, I thought the original lesson was 40 minutes at least 40 minutes Standing outside while they can hear the gunshots kids are calling 911. They have rifles They have body armor probably level four plates Standing around doing nothing. So he makes it sound like it was an equipment issue Oh, the police couldn't go in there because they were out gun because it was an equipment issue They didn't have as good a guns as the bad guy had again That's an absolutely verifiable lie. They had the equipment. They had the correct training They just did nothing because they're cowards who should never hold the badge again in their lives The fact that he brings up the Texas shooting is absolutely disgusting because he's lying to you about what happened And saying because these cowards couldn't do their job even though they had the air 15 The shooter had an air 15 and they were just too scared and and that's really not their fault It would have just been better if nobody had that gun. There are more air 15s in America I think at this point probably then there are people so good luck getting those out of the hands of everybody Now i'm no longer in the police force. Thank god for that My air 15 collects dust in my safe Rifle ranges that permit the type of training required to use this weapon system Effectively are few and far between and the cost of ammunition exceeding a dollar per round is more than this guy can afford Okay, first of all, I like how he makes it sound like the training is super complicated Like you can't just go to a range and plank with an ar which a lot of people do not my bag But a lot of people do that right also He doesn't mention that you know you could uh, I don't know gee dry fire And you could do that if you want to work on web manipulations and you know reloads tack reloads Malfunction cleanses, whatever so again, he's lying to he's making it sound like it's a super complicated system And it's a weapon system. You notice how he brings that term out there weapon system Like like bro, it's a rifle. It takes a magazine You run the bolt and you can party like I don't you this is not complicated But he wants to make it sound as complicated and complex as possible for you to you to understand You don't have the special secret knowledge You don't have the super secret knowledge that I have so you can't possibly understand how to use the weapon Also, I like his his attempt at trying to relate to the plebs, right? He's like, well, you know I can't afford more than a dollar around so first of all bullets aren't that expensive right now They are more expensive than they should be But they're not a dollar around and he kept lying. He's verifiably lying. I no longer need it But neither to be honest do most people flocking to gun source to buy one Well, so what? So what if you don't need it? So what if you don't have a justification? If you want it, you can buy it What's the problem? I don't understand If if good people have guns that actually is a disincentive to bad people doing bad things so What's his point? Banning these powerful weapons from the civilian marketplace is a no-brainer As our universal background checks Neither move is going to solve all the gun problems we have But it would be a start So again notice we want to ban it from civilian hands I mean not the military and the police obviously they need these guns because you know But civilians incompetent idiot Untrained civilians. They shouldn't have it because they don't have special government jobs He also throws in the universal background check thing which is which is cute, right? But what does that really have to do with what he's been saying up to this point because he's just pushing for all Gun control. So he's just trying to stuff some things in there. I'm surprised he didn't go for the red flag laws too And then this is my favorite that neither move is going to solve all the gun problems we have Then why are we doing it? But it would be a start all the gun control laws are a start There is no end game for them except of course complete and total confiscation And no guns in any civilian hands at all, right? That's that's of course their ultimate goal But if they always say it well, it would be a start Let's ban air 15s and have red flag laws and ban ammunition sales and allow us to sue gun manufacturers And you know creating national gun registry That would be a good start like it's always a start. It's never enough Well, what's the end like we know the end of course is getting rid of all guns forever Except of course unless you have a special government job and outlawing these air 15s would not require confiscating them From people who already have them when I first read that I thought oh, oh, well, oh, that's so nice of you Once you've made these weapons illegal anyone found with one would be subject to arrest Since possession of these weapons should be a crime So we'll just make them illegal and then as these people deal with police officers They're going to get arrested when we find out they have an air 15 that'll solve it If you think that most air 15 owners are just going to hand them over I don't think you quite understand this country I think it's likely you would see a lot of people opting to turn them in I just I don't I don't know where you're getting that from bro. I don't again You're just saying he's lying to try to convince You know which is ban him people will turn him in and then it'll be all good When in reality, of course gun violence will spike through the roof Because they're going to send men with guns to take your guns If banning them outright seems to like too extreme a solution to be politically palatable or morally correct Here's another option reclassify semi-automatic rifles as class three firearms Oh, that this is going to get fun That would mean that someone wanting to purchase an air 15 would have to go through a background check Fingerprinting and a review by an official from the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives A process that could take anywhere from 12 to 16 months And since class three weapons can't be purchased by anyone younger than 21 It would solve the issue of emotionally unstable 18 year olds buying them But those same emotionally unstable 18 year olds can sign up for the military and be a tank gunner Fire a 40 millimeter grenade launcher Like what what see he's just swiping all anyone under 21 You're emotionally unstable and stupid and don't deserve to have rights If 18 year olds aren't adults then we can have that discussion But once you're an adult, you know, you have the right to do all the things that adults do I also like that his argument here is look if we can't just take him away and make it illegal Let's at least infringe on people's rights as much as we can by making deal with the ATF more A class three firearm reclassification would also make those who are approved to purchase these weapons subject to annual check That they are complying with federal regulations regarding secure storage of the firearm And to confirm their licensing and other paperwork is up to date All of these hoops and hurdles are sure to reduce the civilian demand for these weapons as I was cutting this together I noticed that I miss an important point here Which is that he talks about class three firearms and he conflates some terms So if you don't know what a class three firearms is that's actually a reference to an ffl type license If someone ever sells you a silencer or an sbr or something like that something that's regulated by the nfa That's like they have a class three license. So what he's saying is we should reclassify ar-15s to be class three Like silencers sbr's short-billed shotguns stuff like that So, you know, you have to go through the $200 tax stamp process. You have to get things you're printed You have to send your application to the atf. It's reviewed by an atf official like he says here Which just means, you know, some paper pusher looks at your thing and and approves it And then of course you get your can out of jail months later If you've never bought a silencer not familiar with that process. It's kind of a pain However, he then conflates all of that stuff With what the ffl dealer has to do which is annual inspections and checks and whatever Which again, uh, I don't actually know how much that actually happens in reality And the atf actually comes these places and checks them out as far as I know next to never However, he's conflating things. He's basically saying And he's either lying or an idiot Because if you've ever bought a silencer, you know that you fill out the stupid paperwork You send it in and then you get your silencer and that's it. That's the end of the deal But if you're a dealer, you have some extra regulations and whatever where the atf can come visit and You do have to make sure that you know, yeah, we store these things safely and whatever So he's conflating those like you the civilian should have both requirements You know, you should have all the fingerprint stuff and the atf should just be able to come into your house Any time to make sure that it's stored safely and whatever So he conflates all these terms together and makes up a reality which doesn't exist And says that's how we should classify ar-15s. So again, either lying or an idiot So again, he's just he's just being too honest. Listen, if we just, you know, lock it down and really Literally choke him with regulation then that will help crush people's desire and will the live, right? Now I find this ironic, of course, because silencers are highly regulated. However, you know, those are hitting record sales these days I can't overstate how dangerous it is to have semi-automatic weapons like the ar-15 in the hands of civilians Again, he's using that civilian word. It's dangerous because you don't have the special government job You don't have the special super secret knowledge training that I have So it's dangerous for you That's again, not true But again, he needs to lie to you and beat you up and make you understand that you're an idiot And that he is the god from on high who of course has a lot to grant you what rights you may or may not have And he's going to do that of course through fear. That that's the primary tactic for gun control advocates Fear and lies and they're going to combine those two and bludgeon you to death with both of them In order to get you to comply and for people who don't know Will of course it works our public officials have it within their power To help make it harder for people who have these weapons to get them So again, what he's saying is you our public officials should make it harder for you to get them Because that's who we need to take guns from You a police officer should never have to worry about being outgunned by the bad guy They're protecting the public against If you're afraid of being outgunned by a bad guy Carry a better gun wear level four plates Maybe you're in the wrong line of work. I don't know. There's some other things you could do there But notice then that he is at the end. He's bludging you. He's beating you up and then he's saying no Look, I'm here to protect you Just like those police in texas did when they arrested the parents who were trying to go in to save their kids They did their duty to preserve and protect the public I'm going to do that job and that's why you shouldn't have an air 15 Do brave deeds