Are you a gunman?

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i dont see how any of us could really be the "gunman" moniker here.

The true meaning from reading every private eye story i can read is the following:

Gunman: noun, a person who uses a handgun to commit crimes and intimidate witnesses and to cause general mayhem.

in the old westerns:

gunman: the armed criminals who rode horses while raiding and pillaging the west during and after the civil war. Typefied by jesse james and wanabe james'.
Gun slinger: just the man who rented his gun out for the highest bidder, could be typified by eastwoods charecte in high plains drifter or in 3 mules for sister sarah.

At best a member of uncle sams military MAY qualify, but most of us here dont unless they let felons in jail who used firearms to commit their felonies use the internet.
 
Gun slinger: just the man who rented his gun out for the highest bidder, could be typified by eastwoods charecte in high plains drifter or in 3 mules for sister sarah.
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In "High Plains Drifter", Eastwood played the former town marshall who was nearly killed... he came back for justice or revenge, or both. IMO, he wasn't so much a gunman/gunslinger as one who knew how to use guns and knew how to fight.

"Gunslinger" implies someone who draws way to fast, puts the first round in the dirt, fans the remaining four or five rounds, and hits nothing. That kind don't last long.

It was "Two Mules for Sister Sarah" and he played a combination of gunrunner and mercenary. And guns weren't his only weapon... I recall he favored a stick of dynamite.

Rifleman. Gunman has a negative connotation by the common public. But a rifleman is someone who stands for truth and justice much like a Minuteman.
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Exactly, but this IMO wouldn't cast any negative light on law abiding handgunners.
 
I wouldn't take kindly to "gunman", it has too many connections to criminal behavior. Plus it's being used to define a person, and since I'm not a professional gun handler it's not the best or the most accurate way to define me. A more accurate way would be "Armed American Business Owner and Taxpayer". But the media would never describe one of us in that fashion, it sounds to respectable and patriotic. I expect what I'd get would be "gun nut".
 
if "gunman" is pejorative ...

is "gunwoman" more gender-inclusive?
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Rosie O'Donnell might think so but she displays her pejoratives in public. I've also heard that she dangles her participles, which is such an unappealing image that I try not to dwell on it.
 
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