Observation?
Saying 50% lack common sense is certainly an exaggeration, but there are so many that demonstrate such a SPECTACULAR lack of common sense that it sometimes seems like they make up half the population.
Hell, as a cop I trust less than 50% of my colleagues to do the right thing!
As a human my trust level sits at below 10%.
It seems that “rules” are often only enforced when things go wrong or someone actually notices. Actually a lot of it is ignorance of the rules in the first place.
Just this morning I was speaking to a former work colleague of my wife’s. The business has been sold and the new owners have issued the new employment contracts. They have exactly the same dress provisions as the old ones, but as the previous owner allowed these conditions to be flouted (the owner ignored them and the staff followed suit) the staff are upset. As the business is a franchise the franchise owners have been called in to “mediate”. I guess we all know what the results will be.
Some time ago I had a word to my pistol club secretary about shooters ignoring holster rules on the range (it concerned a new shooter whose first holster purchase was a thigh drop holster for IPSC, specifically a no no). I requested the secretary raise it at the next committee meeting and ask that we all get on the same page.
Months later I shot with the same shooter at a level 1 comp. He was now wearing an appropriate holster but it was not “attached to the trouser belt” as required, so I spoke to the person concerned about getting some belt keepers. He had no idea what I was talking about until the Club president, who is also the IPSC regional director, heard us and suggested that he read the rules thouroughly before the next shoot.
I was later told that the Club member who had introduced this shooter and had been “advising” him about equipment purchases was also spoken to about knowing the rules.
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Bon Voyage.
