----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Way OT: GUNS, GUNS, AND MORE GUNS.
> You're not talking to old gun nuts like me, you're antagonizing > camera-loving folks, some of whom have an absolutely paranoid and > obsessive hate for firearms of any kind, shape or color, and you know that. > That you and I love cameras _too_ matters not one whit! > That their position is logically unsupportable and their arguments are > specious matters not. Their position is completely and logically supportable. Guns are used primarily to kill people. Most guns are designed with killing people as the primary design goal. Logically, a person of sound mind would find the whole concept of a device designed specifically to kill another member of their own species from enough distance that self defence cannot be argued, or to kill a member of another species, or their own, as that fellow in Maryland was doing a couple of months ago, for sport or trophy completely reprehensible. Sorry, to continue this thread, but that was one of the most asinine things I have read on this mailing list. > > Let's stay with cameras on this list, okay? Agreed, but you go first. Don't reply privately either, please. William Robb
