 Chumaker Citadel Defense and it's a beautiful June night here and in my backyard it's my neighbors some neighbor children playing over there so hard and all the interruptions are some planes flying overhead so we'll see how the audio turns out but I want to come out here and talk and make a video because I've had a couple ideas stacked up recently and so I thought this would be a good opportunity to make them all so the first thought I've had that I'm thinking about for a little bit is a while back I don't know five six months ago I made a video and I called it character matters and it was about the Cody Wilson incident if you're not familiar with that you can Google it or you can go back and watch that or whatever and that theme character matters has been rolling around in my mind recently so between all my classes and certifications I've taken I don't know how many hours of instruction a lot and I've seen a variety of different structures now on variety of different schools and variety of different teaching styles and they have their own certifications and backgrounds or whatever and I've also taken classes from teachers that I do respect on a moral character level and I've taken classes from people that I don't respect on a moral character level none of that I knew until I showed up and kind of saw their behavior in general and again character matters just because you're good at teaching someone how to shoot guns or just because you're good at shooting guns if you don't have a personal character level none of that matters right the thing that separates the good guys us from the bad guys isn't our skill in how we use our guns it's why we use our guns right because if you don't have character and you use a gun those people typically are criminals right that's what we call them so character matters right it matters if you have a personal character level and if you're not a respectable guy or girl and you have a low personal character one it makes your classes really distracted right because it's hard to take a class from someone that is talking about having sex with prostitutes while they're teaching glass been there it's hard it's hard to do that like I'm here to concentrate on guns I'm here to concentrate on learning and you're not facilitating that right so again find first of all be a person of substantial moral character don't be a moral I mean it sounds pretty simple to say but don't write because if you are you're just another bad guy with a gun and and more importantly yes in this context of this video is find classes from people that are upstanding guys and girls and take classes with those people because I promise you you'll enjoy it more just one and two and probably more importantly you'll be taking a class from someone you respect it really seeps in the knowledge and you get to be around people like there are there are some great people in the gun world and and some great people in our country and on our planet and to get to be around people like that is always it's a blessing right it's beneficial to be around someone who's a master of their craft who's dedicated to teaching you to be good at that craft and who's someone you want to emulate and be like right I'm 30 30-odd years old now and there are still people I look up to right and I'm sure I will say the same until the day I die there are people I look up to and people I want to be like and being around those people is helpful you get to you get to by osmosis you get to become a little bit more like them and I want to hang out and be around and learn from people that I want to emulate because that's that's what happens that's from there do I'm there to learn from them right so find that value character again without character we're just the bad guys there's no difference being good at guns is not an inherently positive trait can go both ways do brave deeds and endure