Should FBI Agents Learn Martial Arts?

FBI has reportedly planned to have its agents train in MMA ( Mixed Martial Arts ) Writer: FBI 's Kash Patel's plan to have agents learn martial arts is "surreal" and "whacky" Writer: MMA is sport, yet there is nothing remotely sportive about a genuine genuine martial art.

He says martial art is, ultimately, homicidal in character.

There are doubtless those, including many a Second Amendment enthusiast as well as those within the martial arts and self-defense world, who would object to this characterization.

The telos of the study of a martial art is make its students into maximally efficient killing contraptions, peerless combatants.

FBI agents and all decent civilians should, strictly for purposes of defending themselves and their loved ones, train in martial art.