What I mean is not someone that hates guns or someone that hates certain guns just because but someone that will post negative comments about a gun that they have owned because it did not perform as expected.
It seems as if any negative comment is looked apon poorly. I value the negative comments as long as they are based on fact and experience. For someone that has never owned a Glock (for example) to say that they are junk is worthless. If they say why they don't like Glocks and give specific examples of times a Glock has failed to perform the task it was asked of it, then I read with interest.
If I am looking to buy a gun and there are no negative comments about it, I get worried. You know every gun has some flaw. I just want to know what the flaws tend to be so I can decide if I can live with them. Certain guns get more than their share of positive and negative comments by overly emotional critics. The 1911, Glocks, CZ-75 and Makarov come to mind. Some people love them and will flame you if you have a negative comment about their favorite pistol and some people hate them more than you can trust.
I say, keep the well thought out and fact based negative comments flowing! This is why I read these forums and have given up on the gun rags. You will seldom see anything negative about any gun in a gun rag because they don't want to offend their sponsers by the truth! If you get a gun that is a POS, let us know so we don't spend our hard earned money on a gun that could be a lemon. If it is one negative comment and 1200 positives, I can assume that it is a decent gun but if the comments are running 50%-50%, I will probably not waste my money on it.
Thanks for listening to my rant of the day.
It seems as if any negative comment is looked apon poorly. I value the negative comments as long as they are based on fact and experience. For someone that has never owned a Glock (for example) to say that they are junk is worthless. If they say why they don't like Glocks and give specific examples of times a Glock has failed to perform the task it was asked of it, then I read with interest.
If I am looking to buy a gun and there are no negative comments about it, I get worried. You know every gun has some flaw. I just want to know what the flaws tend to be so I can decide if I can live with them. Certain guns get more than their share of positive and negative comments by overly emotional critics. The 1911, Glocks, CZ-75 and Makarov come to mind. Some people love them and will flame you if you have a negative comment about their favorite pistol and some people hate them more than you can trust.
I say, keep the well thought out and fact based negative comments flowing! This is why I read these forums and have given up on the gun rags. You will seldom see anything negative about any gun in a gun rag because they don't want to offend their sponsers by the truth! If you get a gun that is a POS, let us know so we don't spend our hard earned money on a gun that could be a lemon. If it is one negative comment and 1200 positives, I can assume that it is a decent gun but if the comments are running 50%-50%, I will probably not waste my money on it.
Thanks for listening to my rant of the day.