“Nina Berman from San Antonio: Gun Rally Fashion Then and Now” is an interesting collection of photographs from gun owners from the 1990s til today. As she puts it:
I photographed NRA gun activists and militia members in the 1990’s. Much of the conversation around gun rights today originated back then in the debate over the Brady Bill, which was passed in 1993 and required background checks for some gun purchases. Like today, gun owners then labeled gun control advocates as socialists and communists who wanted to disarm America. The UN was poised to invade. Black helicopters were everywhere. Bill and Hillary Clinton were the anti-Christ and Waco and Ruby Ridge became modern day Alamos.”
Source: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/11/nina-berman-from-san-antonio-gun-rally-fashion-then-and-now/#sthash.gNN67Fom.dpuf
Well, you’re right, gun control advocates are socialists, communists, Nazis, liberals, progressives, evil, freedom-haters and collectivists of the worst kind. Who’s hates you the most? The man that disarms you. Why does he disarms you? Because he wants you to be weak, doesn’t even respect you or respect himself.
People who respect themselves respect your rights. I’m afraid of the Klan and the Black Panthers, but I don’t disarm them, why? Because I have principles. You don’t fight fascism, Statism, and socialism by using their tactics. Only a liberal would claim that he cannot tolerate intolerance. I can, I can tolerate intolerance as long as it doesn’t affect me directly. What I will not tolerate is getting murdered because some liberal didn’t want me having a gun.
The liberal photographer writes:
I saw a whole new generation of gun owners who wore their weapons like Madison Avenue socialites wear their Hermesbags.
My gun is a lot cheaper than a Hermes bag, and a lot more useful to. You don’t fight crime by striking a pose or looking fabulous. Berman writes that when she thinks about guns, she thinks about a bunch of unnecessary violence. Ironic, when I think about unnecessary violence, I think about all those people that didn’t have a gun. I think about the Central Park Jogger, brutally raped by a bunch of animals. Everything I search “gun” on Google, I get two kinds of stories, armed people who defended themselves, unarmed people who became victims.
Berman is a good photographer, but someday she might find that while you can make a living with a camera, it takes a gun to protect your life.
To be fair, sometimes cameras protect your life too (when people committing crimes with witnesses present is too risky).
Good point.