[meteorite-list] Matters Arising.

[GREG LINDH]

  I'm sorry folks, but some of you need to get a life.  That photo was just plain fun.  The last thing any of those folks in the photo (I only recognized Geoff Notkin) had in mind was to start this.  Really....what a pantload!    
 
  Yes, I live in Arizona...yes, you're allowed to carry a weapon in Arizona...yes, I've lived around guns my whole life...yes I own several of them....yes, I enjoy shooting them...yes, I understand gun safety rules and I wouldn't point a weapon at anything I didn't intend to shoot, but PLEASE!
 
  I don't think the objections to the photo had anything to do with "gun safety".  I think it had more to do with a mindset that is basically anti-gun.  It's as if having a gun in the same photo that has a meteorite in it somehow taints the meteorite and the people in it.  PLEASE!  It's hard to tell from the photo whether it's a real weapon or not.  I wish that it had been a bright "day glow" green, plastic squirt gun, but you know what, I still think that objections would still have been be raised.  Like I said, this all has to do with a certain mindset.  Period.