Dr. Rob,
Thank you for a lucid and even handed summation of the TFL Weltanschauung and Weltansicht.
I too have dared to disagree with both Jeff Cooper and Gale McMillan, but that does not mean that I have anything less than total respect for those two noble gentlemen.
(That being said, I must admit that there are those that I have disagreed with that I have no respect at all for...)
Like many others, Jeff and Gale have a lot of experience, knowledge, and of course... opinions. I value their opinions, whether or not I end up agreeing with them.
I value their exhaustive knowledge because I know how difficult and time consuming it is to acquire.
I have learned a lot from both of them and a lot of the others here at TFL.
If nothing else, they have often given me an intellectual point of departure for new (to me) thoughts, ideas, and adventures.
My only salient point here is that there ARE differing views of what is and is not appropriate for given shooting situations, and this is why there are so many different guns. Thank God! Imagine what our beloved Forums (and gun magazines, clubs, shows, etc...) would be like if the ONLY weapons we had to talk about were box stock rifles, pistols and shotguns, one model of each, and all made by the same manufacturer. Kind of like living in Russia before the wall came down, eh?
Thank you for a lucid and even handed summation of the TFL Weltanschauung and Weltansicht.
I too have dared to disagree with both Jeff Cooper and Gale McMillan, but that does not mean that I have anything less than total respect for those two noble gentlemen.
(That being said, I must admit that there are those that I have disagreed with that I have no respect at all for...)
Like many others, Jeff and Gale have a lot of experience, knowledge, and of course... opinions. I value their opinions, whether or not I end up agreeing with them.
I value their exhaustive knowledge because I know how difficult and time consuming it is to acquire.
I have learned a lot from both of them and a lot of the others here at TFL.
If nothing else, they have often given me an intellectual point of departure for new (to me) thoughts, ideas, and adventures.
My only salient point here is that there ARE differing views of what is and is not appropriate for given shooting situations, and this is why there are so many different guns. Thank God! Imagine what our beloved Forums (and gun magazines, clubs, shows, etc...) would be like if the ONLY weapons we had to talk about were box stock rifles, pistols and shotguns, one model of each, and all made by the same manufacturer. Kind of like living in Russia before the wall came down, eh?