Me And A Gun

[Posh]

We were taught 1st hand the danger of guns, what they should be used for ONLY and why.

What are they ONLY for exactly and why? That's my question to you.

I respect your opinion, but I have issue with this post because this is a watch forum. Not a social commentary forum, not a weapons forum, not a creepy artist forum, not a manbag forum. This is a watch forum.

I'll be the first to admit, in the past, I posted a few threads regarding off - topic subjects that I found interesting. However, what I realized, is that they were annoying. Although, well received, they were annoying because this is a watch forum.

I believe that we're surrounded by enough ****e on a daily basis. I don't want to visit the forum dedicated to my beloved hobby and see photos of kids holding weapons. That's not what this forum should be about.

This is a watch forum. Kyle

Thank you for respecting my stance on guns. Um, my section is about all things replica, as can clearly seen. I've talked about bags, cars, watches, shoes, clothes, travel, art, philanthropy AND my own thoughts and opinions, if feel like expressing them. Everyone is welcome to provide a counterpoint on or support of these opinions; I won't censor anybody because I don't like them or what they say. You probably were not here when I did a post to let people know what the section was for and what it would contain. Posh's section is exchange for ideas and learning.

Due to the largess of the site principals, I was given a great deal of latitude in what topics I wanted to present to the RG readers. If you don't like my social, education, art, relationship, etcetera commentary, by all means ignore it and focus on the replica topics. Or just ignore the whole section completely; that is the beauty of free will.

Nobody's putting a GUN to your head and telling you to read my articles.

I don't mind the images, either.

However, I feel compelled to note that Tori, despite the name of her song, was not held at gun point. She was threatened and held against her will with a knife.

Thanks you for clarifying. She has said that at that time she thought he had a gun when he threatened her until he produced the knife. After the event, she dreamt that it was a number of different weapons, including a gun, which is why she brings a number of weapons, real weapons including a real gun, into the performance of that song as Pip. Seeing Thelma & Louise, writing the song and afterward having sexual assualt victims tell her about their experiences at the end of guns and her position on guns, she has felt the title to be apt.

That's in part why I used the picture of her with the knife instead with other weapons.

More children robbed of childhood

It all depends on what you see as upsetting based on your value system.

Just stirring the pot. . .

(Stir. . .Stir. . .Stir. . .)

Guns make you feel powerful and for people with no power whatsoever, it can be a rush, even if you don't use the item in question for deciding if someone can can continue to live. The psychological component of being around a gun, holding gun, pointing a gun at something or someone, cannot be ignored. I held a $100,00 Purdey rifle in England which in addition to being as beautiful as any sculpture I've seen was also deadly. I find it very difficult to see a piece of art that also doubles as a thing that destroys a life; art was never meant for one living creature to kill another living creature.

If you're a weak, disenfranchised, ineffectual or scared person, having a gun, which gives you the ultimate power, which is the power over life and death, is a feeling that a lot of people actuallyy enjoy. That's scary to me. I would think hard before being around someone who enjoys owning lots of guns, holding guns, shooting guns and all that. I'm automatically wary of that person, which I don't forsee changing. And I don't mean an adult who sharpshoots or clay shoots; those people aren't shooting living things.

There is NO real need for any person in the civilized, Western world to know how to shoot or even own a gun. Let's be real, no one needs one. If you're not in the military, what's the reason? To shoot deer so they won't die? Because that's the argument you hear with hunters, the fact that deer won't have food because there will be too many of them going after what's available for them. We kill them so they won't die. I have never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. Also, nobody in the Western world is going rise up against the government so you can take that out of the equation. The government has done plenty of things to plenty of people in America and everybody sat on their hands took it.

I rushed him but I was sure to ask my friend to give me pictures from all over the world, every country is represented and I actually augmented the photos just now. I didn't have time to put them all in last night. So it's not just "infidel haters," it's every country in the world showing children having fun with real guns and fake guns, but you can't be sure who has the real guns and who has the fakes ones. This could easily be about parents but I'm talking about parents because some don't have any due to war or other variables. I guess you could say this is a photo essay of children, which embody life, hope and happiness, with guns, which embody death, destruction and despair.

A child should not have to think about their own mortality. I'm sure most kids wouldn't think about guns unless some adult, or adult-produced form of media, got them to think about it. Kids want to play with their friends an have fun, not learn to shoot or "respect" a Stayr-AUG. Children need to be children.