STYLE INFLUENCERS VS. LIFESTYLE BLOGGERS: Make Sure Your Sources Are Staying In Their Lanes

If you’re like me, you turn to YouTube when you’re trying to learn a new skill or educate yourself on a topic. It should be no surprise that anyone with a camera and an internet connection can share their opinion with the world, regardless of how meritorious it may or may not be. But who should you turn to for your information? Style influencers or lifestyle bloggers?

I’ve seen several style influencers that have recommended some rather questionable concealed carry methods that don’t hold up to pressure testing. I don’t blame them per se. They don’t know any better.

This is just a reminder to make sure that you’re getting information from the right sources. Just because there’s a shared interest doesn’t mean that they’re qualified to speak on the topic.

A singular source for all the answers is certainly alluring, but more often than not, it tends to be a trap.

The closer perspective is entirely me just trying out a slightly different look, and in no way an attempt to hide the fact that my fly was down for the duration of this video….

The Suited Shootist
Alex Sansone took his first formal pistol class in 2009, and has since accumulated almost 500 total hours of open enrollment training from many of the nation's top instructors including Massad Ayoob, Craig Douglas, Tom Givens, Gabe White, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Darryl Bolke, and many others. Spending his professional life in the corporate world, Alex quickly realized incongruities between "best practices" in the defensive world, and the practical realities of his professional and social limitations. "I've never carried a gun professionally. I'm just a yuppie suburbanite that happens to live an armed lifestyle. Having worked in the corporate arena for the last decade, I've discovered that a lot of the "requirements" and norms of gun carriers at large aren't necessarily compatible with that professional environment. I also have a pretty diverse social background, having grown up in the Northeast, and there are many people in my life that are either gun-agnostic or uncomfortable with the idea of private gun ownership. This has afforded me not only insights into how we are perceived by different subcultures, but how to manage and interact with people that may not share your point of view without coming across as combative or antisocial. This is why my focus is the overlooked social aspects of the armed lifestyle."