Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jay, I do not now hunt animals. I did as a young child with my rural grandparents. It was never for sport for them or for me. The only wild things killed that were not eaten were animals that could not be kept from the livestock. Even that . . . well, you know, I can almost always come up with a recipe for damn near anything. I wish we did not have the gun problem we have here. I wish we had not had 9,542 gun deaths since Newtown. That is the equivalent of thirty-one 747 airplanes crashing and killing everyone aboard. My wishes will never come true. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > Sonny, > It is very difficult to get one's head around this "need" when one has > not even touched a gun in the whole 61 years of one's life, and never > really felt the need to touch one, either. Cultural differences, I > guess, but from my perspective this is one I cannot understand the > need at all. I am totally against hunting animals for sport as well, > so that accentuates the divide..... > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Jay, > > Times have changed and so have I, but I've owned a Walther P38 (WWII) > > and a Walther PPKS (James Bond's pistol). I rarely fired either of > them, > > almost always at our family farm. > > > > I did not own them for protection; I truly was fascinated by the > mechanics. > > > > I traded one for the other, then sold the PPK when I needed to pay some > > bills. > > > > I now own three firearms; a shotgun, a 22 rifle and a 22 pistol. I've > not > > seen any of them for several years, and the last time we used them was at > > the range, (I think I posted those pix) > > > > I'm pretty ambivalent about the issue when it comes to small arms like I > > own. I really don't understand, and get aggressive when the machine is > > very automatic and has a clip with a multitude of bullets. I don't know > > why anyone needs that, (surely not hunters). > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA