Tuesday, May 16, 2006
ART ON THE RANGE
Time magazine’s Elizabeth Keenan—once spooked by firearms, now a member of Sydney’s Royal Australian Naval Reserve Rifle Club—explains her conversion:
Guns aren’t moral agents, they’re machines—elegant, superbly efficient, made to fit the human hand. I now think it entirely possible that the American gunsmith John Moses Browning “sitteth,” as his admirers say, “at the right hand of God.” Shooting for sport isn’t, as I once thought, the desperate outlet of sad Hemingway types, but a fiendishly difficult art.
Read whole thing.
UPDATE. Kadnine: “It’s a truly remarkable piece of writing. Keenan explains her conversion to shooting enthusiast with grace, wit, and sensitivity.”
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