Guns.

Fellow blogger recommended a web site, www.ephemera.org, it's a cool site. This guy has a photo of an indoor range, a target hanging over the scattered brass shell casings. He writes about firing a weapon for the first time. He fires a twelve gauge shotgun and a nine millimeter handgun. He gets it. When I say he gets it, he understands how destructive firearms can be. He also understands how badly the whole subject of guns and gun violence is treated by the entertainment industry. I am not "anti-gun". Unfortunately the world we live in makes them a necessary evil. Maybe someday we won't need them anymore, that would be nice.

Hey Tommy, bet you could tell those movie makers something about it. Nothin' entertaining about a gunfight, 'cept maybe when you realize you pissed your pants. That was pretty funny, well now anyway. I didn't think it was so funny at the time, you sure did though. Thanks for keepin' it quiet, I owe you one for that. You sure would like that picture bro. It's a silhouette
target in an indoor range, brass twinkling under the fluorescent light. You see the target on an oblique, from like your eleven o'clock. You can smell the powder, takes you back.