The Gun Kobayashi Maru

This was too long to post on the Facebook page, and it also needed a blog post.

In Star Trek fiction, the Kobayashi Maru test was the  no-win scenario. This same no-win scenario most certainly exist in the gun culture. Specifically, when people ask the credentials of an instructor. The no-win scenario comes in because there is no way to make everyone happy with the instructor's credential.

If the instructor was a Navy SEAL, then the person asking will say they wanted an Army Ranger.
If the instructor was an Army Ranger, then the person asking will say they wanted a Navy SEAL.
If the instructors were a Navy SEAL and an Army Ranger, then the person asking will say they wanted Marine Force Recon.
If the instructor was former military, then the person asking will say they wanted former law enforcement.
If the person was former law enforcement, then the person asking will say they wanted former military.

There's no way to win.

Furthermore, even if the instructor matches what the questioner wants, they never buy.  That's right, they are not buyers. 

So why even answer the question?

To complicate things a bit more, even if you try to answer the question; if they don't like the answer, then they leave a phony negative review.  So, for the Facebook page, I simply delete the question and ban them.  They aren't prospective clients, and they aren't going to win over any clients.  Their sole possibility is to scare off potential clients without having ever having been to a class for a real evaluation. 

One more issue is that they didn't even click the link to the Facebook page, where the question is answered fully:
"All Patriot Training live fire classes are designed to the specifications of combat veterans and are taught by certified instructors."
If someone is not intelligent enough to do that, then they certainly aren't intelligent enough to trust around firearms for a day. 

That said, anyone respectfully requesting further information on instructors will be gladly and promptly answered.  And no, that answer cannot possibly satisfy everyone - and that's ok.