Dooberdoos and Dooberdon’ts (Podcast – Season 5, Ballistic Radio Episode 234, December 17th, 2017)
“If all we’re going to do is play lip service to those four rules [of safety] and expect [people] to be able to perform…
“If all we’re going to do is play lip service to those four rules [of safety] and expect [people] to be able to perform…
“Threat detection and behavior prediction, things that we have been made to be good at, are sort of getting watered down by the pervasiveness…
“Realistically, everything we do–competitively, defensively, or just for skill tests–all matter. People just don’t see that. “Well, I’m good enough.” Well, you’re good enough…
“That righteously indignant social justice archetype… It’s interesting to watch guys with guns negotiate that space because it’s not criminal, it’s aggressive and persistent…
“At the end of the day I’m pointing sights at a target and pressing a trigger. There’s not a whole lot of difference.” —…
“We’ve been fighting with weapons for 400,000 years whereas firearms [with sights] have been on the scene for right around 500 and change… and…
“You have to believe that this thing is better, and why. And if you don’t you will never fully embrace the technology and if…
“Selecting stuff because you have a use for it vs ‘Wow, this is this neat thing that other people are doing,’ that’s kind of…
“There’s a big grey area in there where a lot of people have these guns, a lot of people are comfortable with them and…
“If you’re teaching other people you need to know where all this stuff came from. You need to know the why and you probably…