I Largely agree with this.
I don't however agree with assimilating "trash talking" to peer review. Peer review would imply a productive measure of assessment whereas "trash talking" only invokes emotional based response from recipients. Especially from persons with larger than normal egos, which lets face it most gun owners, particularly those who focus on defensive use of firearms will have relative to that of an average sheeple. In other words, a "professional" is likely to not take the "trash talk" seriously enough to recognize areas of improvement for themselves and address them because by nature they/we (as gun owners) tend to have relatively inflated egos. Not that it's a bad thing necessarily, it's just that it doesn't provide grounds for the recipient to improve themselves like an actual peer review would. So it's inherently not productive for the firearms and training community because one must be willing to change their ways and recognize their own faults. Attributes which aren't easily recognized in this demographic of people. The recent OC/CC thread derailment involving RP is an excellent example of this with his quite obviously emotionally driven, retaliatory responses to his critics.
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