 This is Shepard Humphreys for Stoker and, good, this is Shepard Humphreys with Stoker and Jackson Hole Shooting Experience here today with Tim Bruden. Tim Bruden, I spent about 10 years in law enforcement including some time as a sniper on the SWAT team, ended up as a sniper team leader, went to a lot of trainings and got to have some experiences and you know a little bit about violence as studied a bit. Tim spent some time also. I was in the United States Marine Corps for four years. I've been in three different conflicts on two different continents and I've learned a thing or two about violence. We are shooting instructors with the Jackson Hole Shooting Experience and today we'd like to talk to you a little bit about making jokes on the range. It ain't cool. It ain't cool. Well, I hear a lot of people that will say something like, you know, their buddy will take a great shot or their mom or their daughter or somebody will take a great shot and I'll say, oh, watch out for her. I'm not going to piss her off. And that's just not, to me, that's not okay. I always cringe when I hear that. Yeah. Is mom going to shoot you because she's a good shot? No. No, of course mom's not going to do that. It is not okay to make jokes like that. It ain't cool. In my opinion, it's not. Yeah. I like the idea of, wow, she's really good. Let's take her to a competition, but let's not turn it into a joke that we're going to shoot someone because we're mad at them or something like that. escalation of violence is not okay. Yeah. I actually had a client the other day that was shooting and the lady pointed that out. She was sitting there and she says, well, wait a minute, I'm not going to shoot you just because I was able to hit that particular target. I'm exactly. That's right. Nor should she. Yeah. You know, to me, a person shouldn't even think like that. Violence is the last resort in a situation, escalation of violence, shooting being the last thing in the escalation of violence. In my opinion. Yeah. And even to connect the two, I mean, in the fact that you're shooting guns, it's almost like somebody's screwing a screwdriver in and then somebody says, wow, you're really good at screwing that screw in. God, I hope you don't stab me. No, what does that have to do with stabbing? You can use that as a tool. You can use a gun as a tool, but nothing to do with anything. You know, we're out there and we're shooting targets. We're teaching good shooting positions and we're having fun as a family. We're making connections between families as shooting instructors. I get elation whenever I see someone on target at 500 yards. It's never done it before. It doesn't mean they're going to go out and be able to shoot someone at 500 yards. Of course not. That's not the goal. So, so I guess what we're kind of saying is when you go out target shooting with friends and you're having fun and you're talking, please keep in mind that shooting somebody is kind of sort of serious business, something you'd live with for the rest of your life. It's serious deal. Let's not make light of it. Let's make light of other stuff, but not of that. That's kind of serious. Not a joke. You're keeping your gun and your stoker holster. One of the reasons you have it in that holster is so that when people look in through the window, they're not going to see it. They're not going to maybe be agitated to get into a gunfight with you. They're not going to try to steal it. We're talking about peace here. We're talking about ways that we can make ourselves safer and not end up in a gunfight with somebody. Let's keep it peaceful. Violence is the last resort. Absolute last resort. Thanks for watching. This is Shepherd Humphries and Tim Bruden with the Jackson Hole Shooting Experience and Stoker. Have a great day and be peaceful.