[Leica] Kyle,keep your powder dry

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Kyle

You've done a great job but I'm curious  about what you see as a final 
result. It does seem  as if what you've captured (albeit fantastically) 
is only a small part of armed America. Reading through  the posts 
certainly reinforces what a wise man once said about viewing images. 
"Just shut up and look at the f***ing pictures" Can't remember his name 
but he knew what can happen when we lose track of visual communication..

A good photograph is worth much more than 1000 words and with the 
exception of B.D.'s verbal wang wacking ( :-P ) that seems evident in 
the current discussion. I just want to throw a few ideas out which might 
make the project a bit more representational? It won't hurt my feelings 
if you tell me to mind my own business or maybe it will just a little.

1. Whoever mentioned rednecks and their pickups hit some kinda 
nail....combine Billy Bob and his Ford and his dawg?
2. Try homieville....Saturday night specials stuck in the waistbands? 
Remember the anonymous(and frightening) nature of the prisoners and 
their weapons in the recent posts?
3. Uniformed police? Concentrate on what they're packing in a general 
and generic sort of way. The weapon is the medium which is the message.
4. National guard?  Someone maintaining an armory, surrounded by dozens 
of weapons.
5. A hunter with his "kill"?
6. Kids with BB guns. An early start on our inculcation.
7. People on the other side of the equation. Bullet wounds?, Those who 
lost the gunfight? Bloody med workers in a big city ER?
8. Something saying the old west....Tombstones, funny things about  
"gettin shot dead"? ( have to meditate on that :-\ )
9. Someone standing in their doorway with the proverbial big stick Much 
of armed America may rely on this method of deterrence rather than 
shootin irons. Quite honestly, by the time many of your subjects 
decided  which of their fancy pieces to pick up it'd be all over. More 
than likely they 'd be dead, the little lady raped, or maybe the kiddies 
three rooms away would have sucking chest wounds from stray 9mm's.
10. Speaking of truckers, a driver standing in front of his big rig with 
a .357 in his belt? Twightlight  at the local truckstop.

Keep at it, you're going to end up with a fine piece of work. Hope you 
remember us all  on the LUG with a few autographed copies?

Walt