Is it? I take Martial Arts and would edvise anyone to do the same for self defense.
Am I being irresponsible, too?
It's not as if he is saying to go out and start gunning down schoolkids or anything.
Maybe he's suggesting that he'd expect all good FReepers to be sufficiently responsible to not have an emergency supply on hand already.
BK's story is exactly what happend during the Rodney King riots -- ammo sales were stopped at the worst possible moment for some good people. The bad guys, of course, just broke into the stores and stole the guns an ammo they wanted.
So go BLOAT, I sez.
And Krav rocks, too.