Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]steve again sagely posited: >further Kyle, how about those people who like them, want them, and care about them... >use them for good, or for bad, or don't use them at all....but don't want to advertise these >facts with photos, especially sitting in their living rooms... ? i'm not so much worried about that group, you'd find that anywhere -- soccer families who don't want their picture taken, cancer survivors who don't want their picture taken, etc. most of them are probably well enough represented in the demographic that is already being photographed. but what is definately getting cut off are the very top and the very bottom, the people you've already mentioned, who are ambivilant about their guns and don't really care to be photographed and the people at the extreme OTHER end of the spectrum who think i am: a) a terrorist surveying america for the best place to launch an attack (i kid you not) b) an agent of the ATF trying to create a list of gun owners, where they live, and what guns they have c) in the employ of sarah brady all of which i've run into. the scariest was the guy who thinks i'm a terrorist. he kept threatening to call the FBI and i actually wouldn't be suprised if they show up at my door. he was so adamant that the only reason i could possibly be doing this was trying to find weak, unarmed, areas of america ripe for invasion. i am really concerned about at this point is the difficulty i've had in convincing african americans to participate. as a group, african americans do represent a smaller percentage of gun owners, but certianly not to the extent that my portfolio now suggests. there's a pervasive fear among middle class african american gun owners i've met that either intentionally or not, they'll be portrayed as thugs. it's a whole 'nother layer of this onion to contend with.