Kennedy: Greater capability in violence reduces the need to use it
Tim Kennedy · Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy · Jun 5, 2024 · at 33:37
Former Green Beret and UFC fighter Tim Kennedy explains how self-defense capability and training lead to restraint rather than aggression.
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“If you are intimately familiar with violence, and you are capable of violence, the less you have to prove, and the less amount of violence you have to do to ever be successful at anything.”
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