On Guns

I found two interesting articles via Fark this morning. The first half of this article is pretty much right on. The second half gets a little iffy, but at least it gets that way because they are trying to present two sides to the story. The gun control folks are wrong, but that doesn't take too much away from the first half of the article. Guns are fun. It's just that simple. It doesn't need to be a constitutional issue or a political issue or a protection issue or all about hunting. It's fun to go shoot guns. It's fun when you shoot hand guns inside at paper targets. It's fun when you shoot long guns outside at bottles and cans and clay pigeons. It's fun when you shoot bb guns in the basement. Guns are fun. That is why gun owners so often have more than one gun. Different guns shoot differently. Noticing and comparing the differences is - you guessed it - fun. My sister just came back from a short trip to Vegas and California. She couldn't wait to show me the pictures of her and her best friend at the gun range. "It was an S and W .40," she explained. I could tell from the pictures that they had a good time. There was no need to talk politics and why Smith & Wesson is evil. Guns are fun, and she had fun with guns. That's all that matters.

The second good article is actually on lasers. It is a pretty broad look at what neat things are being done with lasers right now and where the technology is headed. I put this in with this post, because I can't wait until we can actually get laser-guns. I have never really watched any of the Star Trek spin-offs, but I do remember seeing a few of the original episodes when I was a kid. Those laser-guns that Spock and Jim and those guys had were pretty cool. I remember thinking at the time that if they didn't use their laser-guns during the show, that it wasn't a very good episode. Even then I wasn't into seeing it be about politics or other underlying themes. I just wanted them to set their lasers to kill and to shoot away.

Jonathan 11/21/2002 09:06:00 AM