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There are a lot of people in the "You Tube generation" who want to go do "cool guy" stuff and wear their gear and they spend a lot of $$$ doing it. Think Airsoft players and all the gear they buy. Some just want to go do it in a live fire environment . That is fine. It is their $$$. They can spend it as they please. Nothing "wrong" with that unless they are operating under the misconception that their rifle and armor fashion show team tactics extravaganza will have ANY crossover effect in making them more likely to survive a deadly encounter in a parking lot or an active shooter in a shopping mall. And don't get me started on the guys who really think they are going to run out of the mall, go "kit up" , grab their rifle and go back into the mall.....Even worse might be the guys who show up to the criminal paradigm CCW oriented class with a battle belt and drop leg holster.
Kind of like this guy?
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(I kid, I kid)