Bang! Work the bolt!

I own a few Cold Steel knives. Not unhappy with them. They market (notice I didn’t say make) a few other things I’d like to acquire at some point.

Their marketing tactics are frankly a bit cringe inducing. The owner/president Lynn Thompson and his videos of him hacking and slashing at a variety of objects might be great fun for him, but they’re really over the top and  totally corny.

Well he has another video out that goes beyond over the top and makes me wish he would seriously reflect on his motivations. If he’s trying to market himself as some sort of self-defense expert he fails miserably. The safety violations, the questionable tactics. If he’s just wanting to blow money and film himself shooting guns, well, that’s just boring.

I’m all for people being allowed to own whatever they want, including firearms of all sorts, and all for people being allowed to defend themselves. But the kind of jaw dropping crap he does in this video doesn’t help the cause.

Besides the completely ridiculous ten camera set-up and the switch in views every five seconds, his antics are just too irresponsible for words. 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95f_1311250388 

Firing a round into the ground almost as soon as he clears the holster?! Walking rounds on target?! Hey, shooting your downstairs neighbour is all part of the fun! “Rip the shit outta them if you don’t know where they’re at! It’s your life baby.” Seriously, you fucking tool? It’s called positive identification of your target. You shoot 32 rounds to hit 14 times? Where did those other bullets go? “Fuselage of Bullets”....brilliant.

He demonstrates that you can violate all four firearms safety rules and survive, at least temporarily. Darwin Award candidate waiting to happen.

I love the stupid smile on his face every time he fires a few round and hits the targets. You can tell he’s proud of himself and his superb displays of accuracy.

He claims 30 years of practicing martial arts, but he looks like Chris Farley’s stunt double and is out of breath from running between 3 barricades? Get outta here. Never trust a man out of breath who tells you he can move “faster than that”. If you weigh 300lbs, apparently taking one bowlegged step to the right qualifies as “running”. “And run... and run... and run...” Maybe he should take his own advice. He’s winded after almost no exertion whatsoever. 

Part of a 6 disc set, all for a mere $120. Seriously? 6 goddamn DVDs of this shit? 18 hours? Condensed down from 180 hours that took 2½ years to film? $120? The few minutes of that was all I could handle.

There are good videos available that really will teach you something. The MagPul ones come to mind. This assclown? Please.

He had it up on YouTube, but got hammered so badly over it there and every firearms board in the world, that he took it down. But, the internet being what it is, others made certain his display of dangerous buffoonery will live on.

“Bang! Work the bolt! Bang! Work the bolt! Bang! Work the bolt!”

Jeeeessus....