Talking about whether DA/SA is making a comeback in the hardware thread got me thinking about a comparison I made with some shooting friends a while ago. It got some people really mad, and emasculated some.
If you shoot DA/SA and are totally baller then don't take offense. Or do. Whatever.
If you don't shoot DA/SA and think it is a relic of the cold war or something like that, then I want to know what you think about cars with a manual transmission and people who cannot drive them.
When I hear people going on about how its so much easier to learn only one trigger pull instead of two, I hear people saying that its so inconvenient to drive a manual in the city. When I hear about how all the winners of the shooting games shoot striker fired guns, single action guns, laser pistols, or whatever, I hear people going on about how much faster the PDK shifts than a manual. Most of them sound like excuses to justify why they got their Camero SS/911/M3 in automatic because they did not know how to drive a manual. Troll hat on: those people are kittens. I mean not everyone needs to shoot a DA/SA or drive a manual, but when you want to drive a kitten sports car instead of a practical station wagon and have people see you as a skilled driver, you at least need to know how to drive a manual.
Would the people here say the same thing about DA/SA? I think there are alot more skilled shooters on this forum than most so this does not apply to everyone. And at a certain point a friend pointed out handicapping yourself just to do it is stupid. After all I don't shoot a musket just because it would require more skill to keep up with a modern pistol. But, if not shooting DA/SA because "its hard to learn" is an excuse that many shooter tolerate, how tolerant are they of younger people who can't and won't do things like drive a manual today?
Anyways maybe I'm just trolling. This was alot more fun on arf in a PPQ thread as there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.