The Minority Marksman.
"When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet."
-a Ch'an Buddhist axiom.
There's very little room to lie because of the monitoring systems in place. Every key click is recorded, so is your display.
In your specific instance and in many others, true. I was referring to negligent discharges specifically though.Its a safe wager most of the DerpTube folks making vids have at least as many as Sootch if not more. Not long ago someone here freeze-framed a "Range Time" vid where the channel uploader clearly had his finger on the trigger before engaging the target.
The Minority Marksman.
"When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet."
-a Ch'an Buddhist axiom.
I would not consider that a factually correct statement. I understand the premise but in actuality statistics don't work that way.
Example: If it is a proven fact that for every ten thousand times a gun is handled there is One Negligent Discharge does not mean that sometime between now and your 10,000th time you will have a ND. The statistical distribution of outcomes among society does not reflect the distribution of outcomes associated with an individual.
It bothers me when I hear people say it is only a matter of time before I, you or they have X happen because statistics say so.
Ive heard the same thing about riding a motorcycle and wrecks being inevitable.
Bullshit.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
I believe Cooper was credited with saying "there are two types of gun owners, those that have had and ND and those that are going to have an ND." I never thought I'd have one until I did. That's why we follow the 4 Rules.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar
I had several near misses, and only a couple low speed slides on the pavement. I stopped before anything else happened. I rode a fair bit, 20-25K/year for several years, cross country, and lots of exploring around the state I lived in. I had several friends get killed or seriously hurt riding. I dont know if its different peoples reaction time, awareness, luck, or all of the above.
And yes, I've had a couple ND's. Nothing died and nothing expensive was hit.