Personal Defense TV
I'm glad the shows are on. The "skills drill" on Personal Defense TV is the best. The guy knows what he's talking about and how to teach it. Fast and thorough.
I guess if there was a bigger audience to support these shows, they'd be longer and better produced, and contain more detail.
So, in the end, it's the audience (or lack thereof) to blame for poor quality or lack of detail.
I'm frustrated with Personal Defense TV for a number of reasons;
- the cheesy, hard rock/metal soundtrack they put in (sometimes even while the actors are talking, making it hard to discern what they're saying). I mean, that music assumes we're all low-attention span, adrenaline junkie, "extreme", teenagers or something. I don't need fake metal music and a pumping beat in the background while I'm trying to listen to important (potentially life-saving) information. This is not a music video for my garage band.
- the host, Tom Gersham. Wow, is he bad. Sometimes he stammers like he's got nothing to say. Other times he's interrupting the guest to tell them what they were about to say (if he'd have kept his mouth shut). He doesn't come off comfortable, or natural, or competent. I have to listen AROUND him to get to the good info the guests have.
- the lack of detail. They make very generic, safe, broad-sweeping statements without any specifics, detail or evidence. They point to a table full of guns and say, "these are all great defense weapons, but some are better than others," and then they pull up a few for closer examination, without ever telling us WHY that one was better than another, or why the other ones were bad. As a matter of fact, they won't even mention the caliber, or a brand name, or a model. So I'm left wondering what the heck I was just shown. Similarly, this episode, they talked about the rifle (AR-15 carbine) as being a home defense gun that won't penetrate through walls as far as a 9mm pistol. So then he says, if we compare comparable loads, such as a low-grain hollow-point .223 round to a 9mm ball, the 9mm is gonna punch through more. How is a low-grain hollowpoint comparable to ball ammo?
Why wouldn't they compare ball ammo to ball ammo?
Or hollow to hollow?
sheesh
If you're gonna cover in-home defense, why not actually demonstrate which round has the best combination of stopping power without overpenetration?
If you're gonna cover handgun models for carry, why not actually talk about failure rates and possible causes?
If you're gonna cover AR-15 carbines, why not cover the major manufacturers and what is good/bad about them?
Sorry for the rant, but the show is just too sterile.
At least it's a start in the right direction, I s'pose.
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