[Magdalen] Applebee Project

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Well, I am not sure it really has.  Very seldom do you see a massive firing
of automatic weapons.  Each round is roughly half a buck (ten bucks per
twenty-round magazine), so you can imagine most folks cannot afford to
"light up" the firing range at night.

People do go to rifle ranges all over the world, and in some countries they
pay a pretty penny for the opportunity.

I don't know why some folks in the USA are so insane about firearms.

While sex is a big motivator for everyone, power is perhaps even bigger.
Having control over something that says POWER has always had an
attraction.  In WW II, bomber bombardiers reported that watching the bombs
go down was sometimes better than sex. I'm definitely not happy about it --
just pointing it out.  Firearms are like that too.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:57 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That is a large part of what is driving the firearm craze.  Once you've
> > fired a weapon, you really don't want to give it up.
>
> I don't disagree; I just wonder why this craze seems to have caught on
> mainly in the USA.
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>