big facepalm.
No civilian you can see all tac'd up is someone you should be worried about. He likely doesn't even train, not being able to find a legit range at which he wouldn't be harassed until he'd want to leave and not come back. Dudes who are balls-out tacticool are posers -- most of the gun community agrees on this.
It's embarrassing to generalize all users of quality camping / search and rescue gear as gun-nut psychotics. My wife pokes fun at my "shooter pants" all the time, but I bought them originally for the Urban SAR team I was on, and loved them enough to use them for camping, jogging, yard work, etc etc. Just high quality.
It's equally embarrassing to gatekeep against the guys who "likely don't train" because you are actually validating the "tactical nerd" stereotype they're referring to. You're just saying: "No, they aren't the ones the article refers to, WE are".
>but I bought them originally for the Urban SAR team I was on, and loved them enough to use them for camping, jogging, yard work, etc etc. Just high quality.
I doubt the writer would be concerned about you going camping, with regard to
>You're just saying: "No, they aren't the ones the article refers to, WE are".
The kid who shot up Uvalde was wearing a plate carrier with no plates. It doesn't take training or even a basic understanding of the tools to cause a lot of damage.
I'm not worried about the regular at a gun range or the vast vast majority of the gun community, I'm worried about the subset of weird, isolated, tacticool posers who have done a ton of damage on the basis of people telling them "you need to STAND UP and DO SOMETHING".