And, please, don't play the name recognition card. This is a forum. We're all equals here, Mr. Tackett. It's just that attacking others by name while hiding behind a net ninja nickname seemed unacceptably cowardly.
I've seen you bring up that username issue with other crititcs. This is the first forum I found when I became disabled and when I registered it asked for a username. Since there were no other real names that I saw, I thought it was the thing to do. I have heard members here say that they don't want to use their real name because they talk about the guns they own and post pictures of them and are concerned about security. I understand that and for the most part it doesn't matter what name we go by since nobody has ever heard of me and I've never heard of them. However in your case it is different. Being a professional writer that happens to write firearms stories you have an instantly recognizable name, which is why it benefits you to use it here. If you used a different "net ninja" name nobody would read your posts. I believe there are other writers here that don't use their pen names and it is hard to tell them apart from anybody else because they are one of "us". It seems to me that I would rather be a coward then a braggard who has to let people know who he is to gain more attention than he deserves.
And for throwing in the towel. Well let me just say that I've been in some World Class Peeing matches with people on this forum, even to the point of moderator intervention, but there isn't one of them I wouldn't go to the range with or sit down and have a cup of coffee with. But you're different. You've been writing magazines articles for a very long time, I'm somewhat familiar with you and the stuff you have written long ago, before I quit reading you and all the other "Police Tactical Experts" and eventually magazine writers in general. I never really cared if civillians bought into your story but when I heard police officers quote you it really got to me. These guys are not well trained and are very impressionable and your advice is the last thing they need.
I have long forgotten most of your articles but there is one that still sticks with me. It was about Gangsta shooting and why it doesn't work. You said every time your students tried it there were only one or two fatal shots out of a whole magazine. That article came out just after a police officer was killed in Ashtabula, Ohio. He spotted a wanted fugitive and started chasing him on foot. The fugitive spun around and fired at the officer "Gangsta" style, according to witnesses, and fired most of his magazine. One round, the one you said didn't work, hit him in the head. It wasn't fatal, but the one the fugitive shot into his head at point blank range after he couldn't move was. I heard a couple of officers from a different county mention your article and the "fact" that they were safe if confronted by a gangsta shooter.
If you're wondering why I didn't PM you, it's because I've written to magazines you've written for before, long before the cyber age, and actually used my real name and address. But since you kept writing, and didn't die from a colon blockage, I assumed you never got my letters, or at least didn't care for my opinons.
I don't hang around the Tactical forum but I'm not going to start a flame war why, I already did that once. But now that I am disabled and spend most of my time in a recliner maybe I can be a Police Tactical Expert too. This forum stuff is getting real old.
The funny thing is, if you had used a net ninja name, we might have been friends.
And P.S. Mr. Bias was charged with murder, found guilty of murder by a jury, that finding was accepted by a judge and he went to prison for murder. That does make him a murderer until the court says otherwise. If you have any other information about this case, and any appeals, I would like to read it. Since I have nothing better to do.