It's silly, but if it doesn't promote poor or unsafe gun-handling, I don't have a major problem with it.
I do dislike the fact that this genre of pictures are often associated with true firearms enthusiasts at large, and thereby muddy the waters as to our interest.
I like guns, and I don't think it's sharing too much to admit that I like sex and stuff sexy. But I have NEVER equated my appreciation of the two. My interest in guns is simply NOT the manifestation of some Freudian subconscious desire to empower myself sexually.
That said, there are many, especially among the militant feminist anti-gunners (and these people are male and female), who do make such assumptions about me and other (mostly male) firearms enthusiasts. Pictures of scantily-clad women caressing big machine guns and gleaming pistols very much promote such thinking among the antis.
But these pictures sell, and will continue to sell. Best to give them no thought, and live in reality. Like 'em or hate 'em, all they'll do is frustrate you!
[This message has been edited by Long Path (edited February 06, 2000).]
I do dislike the fact that this genre of pictures are often associated with true firearms enthusiasts at large, and thereby muddy the waters as to our interest.
I like guns, and I don't think it's sharing too much to admit that I like sex and stuff sexy. But I have NEVER equated my appreciation of the two. My interest in guns is simply NOT the manifestation of some Freudian subconscious desire to empower myself sexually.
That said, there are many, especially among the militant feminist anti-gunners (and these people are male and female), who do make such assumptions about me and other (mostly male) firearms enthusiasts. Pictures of scantily-clad women caressing big machine guns and gleaming pistols very much promote such thinking among the antis.
But these pictures sell, and will continue to sell. Best to give them no thought, and live in reality. Like 'em or hate 'em, all they'll do is frustrate you!
[This message has been edited by Long Path (edited February 06, 2000).]