Ancient History Still Valid?

[ConstitutionCowboy]

You'd all better have an intimate relationship with your weapons. The better you know them, the more likely you'll have good results when you need to use them in an emergency.

Woody

PS: I usd to drive a Lotus Elan. It's more than the Lucas electrics: It's the SU side-draft carbs as well.

 

[rbernie]

Respect you gun. Period. Many people (too many) don't respect their gun(s).

I have no quarrel with that notion. But that's not what the OP wrote:

Being it is such a special friend,you should always treat it as such,look after it and care for it, and never ask it to do anything that you would know to be wrong yourself.If you ever did that,it would break the special relationship you have with your gun, you will have dishonoured,abused,and shamed it,and that knowledge would be past onto any other gun you may eventually own in years to come.

No, the OP is suggesting more than respect for the firearm, and more than simply affection for a fine piece of technology. It's just CREEPY.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

You'd all better have an intimate relationship with your weapons.

I have an intimate relationship with my wife. I have no such relationship with my firearms. I am very familiar with how they work and how to make them work, but there is no sense of intimacy with any of them. The notion of being intimate with weaponry also is creepy on so many levels.

I do not have a relationship with my guns and they do not have one with me. They are not alive. The do not have feelings. They do not care what I think of them or whether I respect, honor, love, or cherish them. There is no knowledge that I can pass on to them. They are not alive and have no capacity for knowledge, honor, shame, pride, etc.

Given some of the misplaced emotional sentiments some of y'all express, I am a bit concerned for you. It scares me to think that some of these "relationships" you have with your weapons are being perceived by you as two way relationships.

 

[Doggy Daddy]

This thread makes me think of "Lord of the Rings."

I'm imagining people waving their firearms around and announcing their name and lineage whenever they are in a social situation.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I have an intimate relationship with my wife. I have no such relationship with my firearms. I am very familiar with how they work and how to make them work, but there is no sense of intimacy with any of them. The notion of being intimate with weaponry also is creepy on so many levels.

I was being poetical. That said, you need to know them as well as you should know your wife - what they like to "eat", how they respond to your handling, the care they need to keep them "healthy", etc., etc.

Get it?

Woody

 

[mainmech48]

Gotta agree with rbernie on this'un. That sort of animistic booshwah belongs in "Ngarl's Saga" and "Beowulf".

Old joke which some of the previous posters might appreciate:

"Why do the British drink warm beer?"

"Lucas refrigerators."

 

[General Geoff]

This all boils down to a couple of very simple notions.

Humans are social creatures.

Humans are tool users.

Combine the two and you will inevitably have some crossover. This is why many people imbue objects with person-like qualities, and also why many people use other people as tools.

 

[Maelstrom]

Say the same thing about my pistol that I was told about my motorcycle.

"If the day ever comes that you're not afraid of it, get rid of it."

 

[Bill of Ojai]

Well,I'm married to "Old Slabsides".

 

[yokel]

It sounds reminiscent of a rite or cult of fetish worshipers.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I was being poetical. That said, you need to know them as well as you should know your wife - what they like to "eat", how they respond to your handling, the care they need to keep them "healthy", etc., etc.

Get it?

Woody

Poetical? When trying to clarify the meaning of a term or concept, being poetical is not good route to take, especially when the issue is one dealing with unnatural relationships.

So I need to know my gun as I know my wife? That is getting back to that whole creepy intimacy thing again. That is just wrong.

The capabilities and functions of my firearms is sheer simplicity compared to the capabilities and functions of my wife. I certainly do not need to know my firearms as I know my wife.

 

[Kestral]

Ancient Wisdom 1945 update

To clarify my Grandfathers thoughts on owning a gun, Ancient Wisdom thread; this was after being liberated after 5 years of ww2 german occupation. As a child being told every day by big men in grey uniforms carrying guns,that if we disobeyed their rules we would be shot.All of a sudden these big men were gone,May 9th 1945,but all their guns and ammo was still here.As kids ,it was like a big toyshop,the authorites & our parents couldnt be watching us all the time.There was thousands of weapons and ammo all over the place,so how could we be educated in a hurry not to do anything stupid to ourselves or others,how do you get through to a 9 year old not to use a gun without thinking of possible consequences.My Grandfather used the idea of calling these guns our friends & not to abuse them.It worked.we had only one shooting,a spastic boy ,very jealous of his brothers girlfriend,so he shot his brother & injured his mother.If this happened in your country,where young kids had this same access, under similer circumstances,how would you have dealt with it.??