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Nov 7, 2023 14:50:15   #
brentrh Loc: Deltona, FL
 
Was just expressing my opinion I would never object to this page

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Nov 7, 2023 14:56:37   #
rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
 
Retired CPO wrote:
There is NO such thing as "Gun Violence"!!! There IS a big problem with HUMAN violence. I tried this experiment, I put one of my many guns, fully loaded, on a counter top in the kitchen. I kept a close watch on it for 24 hours. It did NOT move, even an inch in all that time. Sure, it had the capacity to do great harm. If you want to look at it that way. But it didn't. I have repeated the experiment a few times over the years. Just in case there has been some new development (read AI) that would enable the gun to act on it's own. NOTHING happened!!

"Gun Violence" is a mantra created by news organizations and anti Constitutional Bill of Rights yahoos to jerk the sympathy strings of ignorant, many times willfully ignorant, folks who can't think on their own without someone holding their hand!!

I, for one will NEVER back down from anyone trying to tell me that Guns are evil! YES, people are evil, Yes, we need to be armed in able to counteract those evil people who act against society.

Off my soap box now. But I'm keeping it handy!!
There is NO such thing as "Gun Violence"... (show quote)

This is Attic material.
I won’t comment further on it.

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Nov 7, 2023 15:03:34   #
Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan
 
rehess wrote:
This is Attic material.
I won’t comment further on it.


I refuse to post on this thread too!

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Nov 7, 2023 18:32:03   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
brentrh wrote:
We have become too sensitive to words trying to protect everyone we forget “sticks and stones with break my bones but words will never hurt me” I photograph moments in time called timefreezes that is what shoot while hunting with my camera. Lots of words to replace shoot I use many of them stop this censorship of words




Growing up I remember a few words we were not allowed to use ... or else!

Today some of those same words are in the category common usage!

Everybody should determine what works best for them and their loved ones, and but out of other's business.

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Nov 7, 2023 18:50:09   #
Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV
 
Blenheim Orange wrote:
I refuse to post on this thread too!


Too late!!!

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Nov 7, 2023 19:46:40   #
Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV
 
rehess wrote:
This is Attic material.
I won’t comment further on it.


Maybe! But why did you direct this comment to me? I'm not the OP. If the OP or Admin wants to move it to the Attic, more power to them.
But I will say, I will NEVER sit on my hands silently while someone trashes the most important amendment to the Constitution of the United States Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment! What ever section it appears in on the UHH or anywhere else!
And if it goes to the attic, I will also note that it only did so after there was a differing opinion posted AFTER the OP made the first ridiculous statement some months earlier! So when did it become Attic material?? Look at the date of the original post!

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Nov 7, 2023 20:10:22   #
Grahame Loc: Fiji
 
Interesting to hear the differing views regarding the use of a specific term used in photography. I use the term 'shoot' and 'shooting' regularly to describe the action of taking pictures but have lived in a country for many years where I can't recall a single gun crime.

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Nov 7, 2023 20:21:04   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
brentrh wrote:
We have become too sensitive to words trying to protect everyone we forget “sticks and stones with break my bones but words will never hurt me” I photograph moments in time called timefreezes that is what shoot while hunting with my camera. Lots of words to replace shoot I use many of them stop this censorship of words


What censorship? The OP made a personal decision to quit using the word "shoot" to refer to taking photos. He didn't calll for anyone else to make the choice.

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Nov 7, 2023 20:24:35   #
Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan
 
JohnSwanda wrote:
What censorship? The OP made a personal decision to quit using the word "shoot" to refer to taking photos. He didn't calll for anyone else to make the choice.



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Nov 7, 2023 22:30:09   #
Bohica Loc: SE Coast of NC
 
burkphoto wrote:
When I joined a company in 1979 that made school portraits and yearbooks, one of the first things I was taught was to lose the word, "shoot" from my vocabulary when discussing photography in any context. It was completely taboo, and I came to realize why. That's an industry that comes close to millions of children. We didn't "shoot kids' portraits" or "shoot pictures." We made portraits and photographs.

We didn't "take" anything, either. We "recorded images." "Taking someone's picture" sounds like stealing their identity or persona.

It sounds silly to some to buck what has become convention, but cameras do not "fire" anything or "shoot" projectiles. They make exposures to record images.

"Shooting pictures" sounds like going to a rifle range with your enemy's photo in hand and using it as a target...

This is not simple political correctness. It is simply common sense, respect, and courtesy. There are plenty of folks with PTSD from horrific events who do not need a random triggering event to remind them of what gave them PTSD.
When I joined a company in 1979 that made school p... (show quote)

Stupidist answer I've ever heard

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Nov 7, 2023 22:38:29   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
rehess wrote:
This is Attic material.
I won’t comment further on it.


Why not just say Goodbye?

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Nov 8, 2023 01:12:27   #
Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan
 
Bohica wrote:
Stupidist answer I've ever heard


Ah, the irony...

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Nov 9, 2023 19:24:51   #
fantom Loc: Colorado
 
Longshadow wrote:


Does that mean we can't say "Oh, shoot!" instead of "Oh shit!" anymore?

(Gonna need a larger bandwagon.)



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Nov 9, 2023 19:27:26   #
fantom Loc: Colorado
 
rehess wrote:
This is Attic material.
I won’t comment further on it.


good

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Nov 10, 2023 08:23:06   #
Canisdirus
 
Why is the US different? All countries are different.

However...the US no longer houses the mentally unfit...and the US no longer houses violent criminals.

It's been catch and release...for decades.

That right there is the difference...we closed down the psych wards...and put a revolving door on our prisons.

Before the 80's...guns were everywhere...and mass shooting was an anomoly...it's not the guns.

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