kyle cassidy ([info]kylecassidy) wrote in [info]guns,
2009-03-31 08:30:00
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Guns on a College Campus?

Indeed! Princeton University is having a gallery show of about fifty prints from Armed America. The reception is Tuesday, April 7th and features a panel discussion by a number of well known pro and anti gun academics including Peter Brooks, James Jacobs, Nicholas Johnson, and Stanley Katz.

I hope to see some of you there. And do come up and say "hello".



There's an invite with more information and some photos of the show hanging








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[info]666_cobalt

March 31 2009, 12:54:07 UTC 3 years ago

Awesome! I just ordered the book from Amazon.com. I look forward to putting it on my coffee table to freak out my left leaning, not so gun savvy friends.

[info]kylecassidy

March 31 2009, 13:05:32 UTC 3 years ago

who knows, your left-leaning not-so-gun-savvy friends may love it.

[info]666_cobalt

March 31 2009, 14:31:01 UTC 3 years ago

Possibly for the artistic merit alone. I love the photos.

[info]elmo_iscariot

March 31 2009, 16:38:23 UTC 3 years ago

Actually, the book is great for left leaning, not so gun savvy friends. So many anti-gun positions, behind all the rhetoric, boil down to tribalism: owning guns is a marker for being "them", and believing in gun control is a marker for being "us". All the facts in the world don't mean a damn when the underlying assumption is "but only stupid rednecks with Rambo complexes own guns..."

Mr. Cassidy's book, even though it doesn't take a position on the rightness or wrongness of gun ownership, is one of the most effective pro-gun works I'v ever seen. It definitively proves that, no matter what the reasonable level of gun ownership and control, there's no such thing as "the type of person who owns guns". :)

[info]666_cobalt

March 31 2009, 17:08:00 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, you are probably right. It's just that I have to always dispel all the firearm myths that my friends bring up. And then there is that ubiquitous "Don't piss that guy off, he has guns!" comment that is half meant as a joke. Ugh!

[info]blackhawk101

April 1 2009, 00:00:45 UTC 3 years ago

Oh Good God- I fucking HATE that comment. I hear it all the time at work and it just boils me. I dont know how many times I've had to say "Just because I have guns does not make me a psycho!"

I'm 45 and my first 22 (a single shot bolt action) was given to me by my father when I was 8 (I kept that gun and my son now has it). I've had guns ever since. If I havent climbed a bell tower yet I have a feeling I'm not going too now.

[info]panookah

March 31 2009, 15:20:12 UTC 3 years ago

That's cool. One thing I love about America is how open we are about our guns. Almost every other country I have been to treats guns like the plague.

[info]666_cobalt

March 31 2009, 16:01:18 UTC 3 years ago

Indeed. I am considered a criminal by some people in Canada because I dared to jump through all the legal hoops to legally own firearms.

[info]comradek

March 31 2009, 16:57:43 UTC 3 years ago

Heh, When I mentioned that I had a Glock on the internet to some Brits, they acted like I must be some kind of blood thirsty maniac. And that seems to be the overarching viewpoint in the UK. I mean, we get that here too on occasion, but not to even remotely that degree.

[info]tomcatshanger

March 31 2009, 18:09:19 UTC 3 years ago

That's odd. My best friend is in the oil field equipment industry, when he told some Brit customers that he had a good firearms collection, they wanted to see them and shoot them.

Maybe it's the not so practical Brits who shit all over themselves about firearms?

[info]blackhawk101

April 1 2009, 00:05:54 UTC 3 years ago

I have a friend who is an ex-pat Brit who got his CCW here. His friend came over from the UK a few years ago and we took him shooting. His friend, Giles, about pissed himself- we had 6 people drag out all the hardcore items and we took over half the range for about 4 hours.

Giles shot everything and we could not get the grin off his face. We had everything from .22 to .308, suppressed and full auto. He was just stunned that we could have all that here in America. Here is a link to that day- Giles is the one in the avi shooting the AK:
http://www.mydeployment.net/range/

As a follow up- Giles is now an ex-pat here in the states with his CCW. He fled England due to the rampant crime and politicians treating criminals like the aggrieved party (his words). He now has no intention of going back- he says everyone there is sheep against both criminals and the increasingly hostile pro-jihad crowd.

[info]dwarven_brewer

April 1 2009, 03:07:48 UTC 3 years ago

I want to go to the range now. Guess I'll just have to console myself with the fact that the work discussion today was open, rather pro-gun and not initiated by me.

[info]n5red

March 31 2009, 15:47:31 UTC 3 years ago

I've already purchased two copies..

[info]pepsquad

March 31 2009, 22:29:35 UTC 3 years ago

this book lives in my high school classroom my kids love it.

[info]2percentright

March 31 2009, 22:37:02 UTC 3 years ago

...

Why is the little girl holding a toy?

I'm a bit confused.

[info]poetpaladin

April 1 2009, 01:32:06 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  April 1 2009, 01:33:02 UTC

Beautiful photographs. They make left-wingers think twice about gun owners because they humanize gun owners and make them look normal to hip and cool.

[info]dwarven_brewer

April 1 2009, 03:03:25 UTC 3 years ago

Damn. Why's it got to be at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday?!?
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