Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"This book terrifies me" - damn good publicity I'd say :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" Subject: [Leica] i'm in the lone star state..... this is probably the best one star review anybody could ever hope for. but it's obvious the reviewer has confused "the photography" with his personal feelings. how many steps back does a photographer have to take? from amazon.co.uk: "Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes by Kyle Cassidy Rating: * (out of five) By E. Mathew (REAL NAME) (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews Having just read through the reviews on Amazon.com, I thought I had to make some comment on the UK site, if only to prompt more reactions. This book terrifies me. I picked it up in a bookshop and was transfixed, both by the photos and the reasons peope gave for their gun-ownersship. The two reasons that stood out for me were along the lines of 'I own a gun because I have the right to' and 'I own a gun so I can protect myself.' Which other rights do Americans have that they feel the need to exercise in this way? And why do people feel protected by owning a fire-arm? One man's comment particularly scared me - he said that no-one saw any reason to take guns away from good people, but that they shouldn't be given to bad people. What sort of comic-strip black-and-white world does this man live in? I could just as easily have given this book 5 stars as one, as it's thought provoking and well put together, but the lasting doubt it has produced prompted the negative score. " _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information