Bobson
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For some reason, I seem to run into a ton of gun owners (older brothers in law, coworkers, school classmates, guys at church, etc) who really don't know much about guns at all, but seem to feel the need to educate me about them. We're talking, the guns they do own, the guns they don't own, gun laws in our own state, gun laws in other states and at the Federal level, etc etc.
I suspect it has a lot to do with the amount I've learned (and am still learning) on this board, but I never know if I should correct them, and if so, how to do it without coming across as being a wise-ass, wannabe know-it-all. In most other areas/topics (really, all others except one), when this happens, I just pretend to think they're right. I figure ignorance is bliss, and it's not hurting me anyway. Not that I'm the smartest guy in the world, but that's just it. I read a lot and have since I was a kid. I have a fairly solid general knowledge base. I know what I know and more importantly I know what I don't know.
But I can't help but wonder if I should be correcting people.
Kinda curious if even posting this makes me come across as a wise-ass, wannabe know-it-all. But I gotta ask.
I suspect it has a lot to do with the amount I've learned (and am still learning) on this board, but I never know if I should correct them, and if so, how to do it without coming across as being a wise-ass, wannabe know-it-all. In most other areas/topics (really, all others except one), when this happens, I just pretend to think they're right. I figure ignorance is bliss, and it's not hurting me anyway. Not that I'm the smartest guy in the world, but that's just it. I read a lot and have since I was a kid. I have a fairly solid general knowledge base. I know what I know and more importantly I know what I don't know.
But I can't help but wonder if I should be correcting people.
Kinda curious if even posting this makes me come across as a wise-ass, wannabe know-it-all. But I gotta ask.
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