[pax]

Apropos of nothing, I gave birth to five children but I sure as heck hope nobody would take professional-level advice from me about prenatal care, labor, or childbirth. The only things I know about those things are the things I learned from personal experience -- and even though I had five and not just one, and even though everything I learned was well-earned, there's just not enough personal experience there to turn me into a medical professional.

On the other hand, the specialist who delivered my youngest child had never been pregnant or given birth. (He lacked some basic qualifications for that.) But he had studied many different aspects of pregnancy, labor, and delivery -- including all the various ways everything could go catastrophically wrong and what to do about it.

A person who has deeply studied these issues would be a better person to turn to for help with medical issues related to delivering a baby than to someone who had 'only' given birth.

But a medical professional who doesn't study and listen to the experience of the people who have actually been there & done that, isn't studying at all. And isn't going to do a good job in teaching others, either.

Same thing with gunfights.

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