Old Dog
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I occasionally check in over there in the hope that things might have changed since the early '00s. Nope Still a total and complete lack of civil discourse, where my opinion trumps everyone else's, the new way is the only way, and the guy with the best and most expensive gear wins.Browsing one of the other gun forums (the black rifle associated one), I noticed that once again folks were attacking Massad Ayoob. I just don't get the hate. I'm not 40 years old yet, but I read Ayoob's In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection when I was young, and it was insightful. I've spoken with Ayoob a few times and learned a lot from him. But those folks attacking him are doing so because he wasn't a GWOT Operator.
One cannot look to those forums for any constructive insight. There is a distinct lack of respect for those who came before, and ageism is oft thinly-veiled and even more often, blatant.
Yep. As one whose career, both in law enforcement and the military spanned 1978 through 2005, I agree wholeheartedly.Let's see whom would have more pertinent information for a commonplace CCW carrier?
A veteran of the police force, undercover, detective who spent his career on the beat OR a soldier who spent his time in a cadre of soldiers in the desert of AFG/IRAQ kicking down doors, patrolling and worrying about IED's?
Too many "gun schools" these days are getting more like those fantasy camps where well-to-do middle-aged and senior guys go to spring training ballparks, pretend they're going through spring training and play some baseball games with retired MLB players...
While recovering from recent surgery, I've been going back and rereading a lot of the older gunwriters, including all of my Ayoob volumes. Still relevant.
Mas spoke to this in one of his American Handgunner columns a few years back He noted that it was interesting that anonymous posters would insist that their statements were more credible than those of someone who put his real name and experience out there.He used to be an active member here. But internet experts with no more experience than the ability to type drove him away. You can only argue with the ignorant for so long...