I can also understand that many people might collect and appreciate firearms
in the same way as many of us might appreciate an OM-1 or Leica M3 purely
for the pleasure of handling a precision mechanical instrument (and we
probably don't load and fire it much either !).
...Wayne
>
> About that, you are quite wrong. There are many shooting sports that
> involve only putting holes in paper or breaking some inanimate object.
The
> Olympic shooting sports, that involve shooting, only involve inanimate
> objects as targets.
> As do other sports involving the bow and arrow sports.
> I have not used any of my firearms on anything closer to a living
object than
> paper, that used to be a tree.
> I.E., We shouldn't be narrow minded about things.
> Rand E.
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>
> On 12/14/2013 4:18 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > Indeed. And a camera has many purposes. A gun only one.
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> >
> > YNWA
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2013, at 9:45 AM, philippe.amard@xxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> I doubt the kids that got shot last night in that school would confuse
a gun
> with a camera though.
> >> I don't.
> >>
> >>
> >> Philippe
> >>
> >>
> >> Tous vos emails en 1 clic avec l'application SFR Mail sur iPhone et
Android -
> En savoir plus.
> >>
> >>
> >> ========================================
> >>
> >> Message du : 14/12/2013 02:50
> >> De : "Mark Kronquist " <mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> A : "Olympus Camera
> >> Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Copie à :
> >> Sujet : [OM] Guns and Cameras
> >>
> >>
> >> Both do good and both cause damage...
> >>
> >> (there was a yahoo stat a while back about how many thousands killed
> themselves (some with guns) because of leaked/sexted photos etc...yes the
> source is about as reliable as a supermarket tabloid but it happens...just
as
> the scene where photos were used to identify revolutionaries in Prague in
> 1968 in Unbearable Lightness of Being was drawn from real life.
> >>
> >> Education
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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