What is the motivation...........

[poddster]

.........that compels people to attend major league football games at a stadium in their thousands?

[poddster]

A lot of people go on and on and on about the 'Guns cause injury and death, so lets minimise the number of guns and there will be less injury and death attributed to them", that may be. Now how about we also apply the same logic to motor vehicles and restrict their numbers, the same thing would apply, less injury and death attributed to cars.

[lind9650]

Lets get back to the original question;

What is the motivation that compels people to attend major league football games at a stadium by the thousands ?

First of all, it's a personal support for their chosen football team, then there is the excitement of the crowd cheering or booig. Being part of a big event with lots of shouting and yelling that at home the neighbours would complain about.

Now another comparison.

Golfers, cricketers, football players etc. etc. all are activly and physically using their bodies to excercise. Even the spectators at a game jump up and down, throw their arms around and do a kind of unintended excercise. All good for the body to strenghten bone and muscles and get the blood circulating.

What kind of excercise does a target shooter do?

Lift the gun to eye level, perhaps lean the elbow on a prop and pull the trigger.

LOL, similar to a fellow standing at the bar in a Pub and lifting a pot of beer.

No comparison in physcal excercises here.

Erica

[poddster]

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@*pepe wrote:

now you are just being ridiculous.

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Ridiculous?

Because I am being logical and it does not agree with what you think??

[myoclon1cjerk]

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@poddster wrote:

A lot of people go on and on and on about the 'Guns cause injury and death, so lets minimise the number of guns and there will be less injury and death attributed to them", that may be.

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It's not a 'may be',it's a fact.Look at the stats.The car comparison is ridiculous.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Should we ban the workplace,poddster, because people die there too?.Maybe you should change your attitude to the unemployed then.They're only concerned about their wellbeing.

[*pepe]

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@poddster wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

now you are just being ridiculous.

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Ridiculous?

Because I am being logical and it does not agree with what you think??

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no you are not being logical at all, you are very myopic in your need to defend gun sports.


I am actually not anti gun - I am anti idiots with guns.

There is no escaping the fact that a gun is a deadly weapon no matter how well trained you are, no matter how carefu you are there is always the potential for that gun to cause death.

Again, you just keep comparing apples and oranges to support your stance.

[poddster]

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@lind9650 wrote:

What kind of excercise does a target shooter do?

Lift the gun to eye level, perhaps lean the elbow on a prop and pull the trigger.

LOL, similar to a fellow standing at the bar in a Pub and lifting a pot of beer.

No comparison in physcal excercises here.

Erica

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Erica, you are sadly mistaken about the physical fitness of that is required to be a successful target shooter.

Most matches use 60 rounds with 5 sighting shots so that is a total of 60 rounds. the range is either 25 or 50 meters.

A target pistol, on average weighs 2 Kg loaded. it is held at arms length unsupported until the sights are aligned and the shot breaks, that on an average is around 30 seconds.

After each 5 shot you go to the target and score and patch the holes the distance to the target and back is either 100 meters or 50 meters so in the course of a match the shooter walks either  1.3Km or 0.65Km

Over the course of the match a shooter holds at arms length 2 Kg for a period 32.5 minutes that equates to 75Kg held at arms length.

[lind9650]

WOW!

1.3Km walking in a match. I walk more than that almost every day and I am almost 80 years old.

And holding a 2Kg gun in one hand ---- 75Kg in one match?

You must be pretty lopsided with one arm stronger and bigger than the other one. Unless you can shoot with both hands equally as well.

Erica

[poddster]

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@*pepe wrote:

no you are not being logical at all, you are very myopic in your need to defend gun sports.


I am actually not anti gun - I am anti idiots with guns.

There is no escaping the fact that a gun is a deadly weapon no matter how well trained you are, no matter how carefu you are there is always the potential for that gun to cause death.

Again, you just keep comparing apples and oranges to support your stance.

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Pepe there is no escaping that a firearm CAN be a deadly weapon if that is the purpose that a person wishes to put it to, so can any of the items I have mentioned if a person intends to use them as a weapon, for instance a screwdriver is a tool until someone uses it to stab someone with, then it becomes a weapon.

By the way the legal term for a firearm is firearm and not weapon, it can be termed a weapon if someone uses it as a weapon, just like the screwdriver I described.

[lionrose.7]

Guns are bad this could happen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI