Posted on 09/26/2016 5:11:12 AM PDT by rellimpank
I grew up with guns. Along with my boyhood pals, I grew up coveting, collecting and running wild with guns. "Let's play guns!" was our sham battle cry during those innocent years, the 1940s and '50s. While girls were jumping rope and playing jacks, we boys were shooting up the neighborhood. Depending on the season, we were just as likely to have been playing baseball, basketball or football. But "guns" was our sport for all seasons, fair weather and foul, indoors and out.
From prekindergarten years until adolescence, guns had a powerful grip on our imaginations and our sporting lives, mostly through the movies of that era, with comic books in a seductive supporting role. And while I eventually outgrew my physical attachment to guns, I was left with a retro affection for what are euphemistically called "action movies," ancient and modern — an unwholesome habit that's been harder to break than tobacco products.
Thanks to our precocious diet of action movies, my grade school buddies and I also acquired an encyclopedic fixation on guns — their makes and models, the advantages of revolvers vs. automatics, double- vs. single-action. We mainlined on their mechanisms, their ergonomics, their metallic luster, the length of their barrels, while adding as many specimens to our home arsenals as our parents would allow.
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Violent gun culture lives in two places - Hollywood movies and inner cities.
Still nauseating. Author is an incredibly stupid pansy with delusions of competence.
Spaghetti westerns reflect Italian culture, not American values. Which is why I loathe them.
Projection in this case means the author is afeared of scary guns and has a small wiener, a fact that preys upon his ego; He wants us all to be afraid of guns and have small wieners, too.
Bingo!
Do you suppose, perhaps, that firing an AR-15 would give him PTSD?
Once again blaming everything except personal
responsibility
Geez, Louise! This is not difficult. My husband - film teacher - burst out into laughter when I told him the premise of this stupid article.
I only had to read part of it to realize he never owned a real gun.
Then further down he says he never owned a real gun.
Just another liberal who want us to think he knows what he is talking about when it comes to guns but really has no clue.
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" == Greatest Movie Ever Made.
I just took my 15 year old some to the range yesterday. We had a blast shooting my AK. He’s learning fast and soon will be able to handle the gun very well. It was a great day!
👍
He’s just another idiot leftist who spends too much time (ie more than one picosecond) psychoanalyzing himself.
We grew up on violent cartoons like Looney Tunes and we were not the worse for it. We did not yet have very graphic films from Hollywood showing the gore of violence. We had some nasty death's of a Clint Eastwood film but we did not have the massive gore that exists today.
We didn't need to see heads exploding in blood but we saw a character shoot and kill another person in a film and the blood was left to our imaginations.
I too have lived with guns all my life; my father was a custom reloader/gunsmith (as a hobby) and I’ve probably forgotten more about guns than this twinkie ever knew.
Yet in all that time, I never saw guns as “violent.” Powerful, yes. Even the humbler .22 is capable of punching through a couple of Sears catalogs. But I wasn’t any more scared of guns than I was of my dad’s electric saw. And I never saw (!) either of them commit any acts of violence.
Fast forward 50 years into a culture that glorifies criminality and apologizes for racist thugs and suddenly guns are to blame for violent crime?
SON!! Proof read!
No PTSD???
Better tell Gersh Kuntzman ...
Actually, I could have written the article myself, it brought back some great memories of my youth, my buddies and of course todays world about guns. We lived in a much better time back in the late 40’s/50’s, too bad those born long after “our time” missed out.
You described my childhood.
Played “War” all the time.
Even used camouflage!
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