what do I love about it? well, ostensibly its about the various hammers you have, and their purpose. which is awesome. But that's not why I love the piece.
The thing that I love about it is how attached you are to your hammers.
or maybe, "why" are you so attached to them. You don't have attachment to them as "things."
Nope. Your attachment to them is the journey you've had with them. They are very personal to you.
The most beat up ones, and the ones you got from yard sales, are possibly even the best ones.
How you came about them, and what you have done *with* them, are the attachment.
I've got a large collection of tools for various purposes. They are like children to me. I love the ones that are the most used, the most f*ked up, the garage sale ones I got for nothing and put to work. They tell stories of some very personal experiences. They make me feel at home.
That's what I read in this work. I feel it. That was the whole point of this article.
I've been smiling at this comment for almost two days and trying to figure out an adequate reply, but I got nothin', so I'm just going to keep smiling.
One day, hopefully, I will start to add hammers and axes that I've forged myself :-)
I wonder if there are any statistics around the number of guns a person owns at the time one of those guns is used to kill someone (either by the owner or another house member). There may not be any correlation but I wouldn't be surprised if gun owners with a higher number of guns were less likely to be involved in a crime if, as you discuss, that implies they have an interest in guns as a hobby/craft/tool. Organized crime and gang affiliates excluded from the statistics as the bans or regulations people call for will not stop access to those groups.
I doubt it. For understandable reasons, gun owners are not very forthcoming about their arsenals--and, for many of the same reasons, it is illegal for a government entity to collect such statistics.
If I were to make some educated guesses based on what I've seen in person, I would hazard a guess that your stereotypical prepper/survivalist/collector sort is basically never involved in violence involving a gun, whereas the (non-career criminal) people who own one to a handful are more likely to either have their weapons stolen for use in a crime or to use it directly in a crime after having bought their weapons through legitimate channels. But it would take me quite a while to justify that intuition and figure out the reasoning behind it beyond that which you already proposed.
love this piece.
what do I love about it? well, ostensibly its about the various hammers you have, and their purpose. which is awesome. But that's not why I love the piece.
The thing that I love about it is how attached you are to your hammers.
or maybe, "why" are you so attached to them. You don't have attachment to them as "things."
Nope. Your attachment to them is the journey you've had with them. They are very personal to you.
The most beat up ones, and the ones you got from yard sales, are possibly even the best ones.
How you came about them, and what you have done *with* them, are the attachment.
I've got a large collection of tools for various purposes. They are like children to me. I love the ones that are the most used, the most f*ked up, the garage sale ones I got for nothing and put to work. They tell stories of some very personal experiences. They make me feel at home.
That's what I read in this work. I feel it. That was the whole point of this article.
They're alive.
I've been smiling at this comment for almost two days and trying to figure out an adequate reply, but I got nothin', so I'm just going to keep smiling.
One day, hopefully, I will start to add hammers and axes that I've forged myself :-)
A story told authentically is actually very revealing about the author and tells more about him than the topic at hand, I dare say.
That is, alas, one of the risks of the writing job ;-)
Bukowski confirms this
I wonder if there are any statistics around the number of guns a person owns at the time one of those guns is used to kill someone (either by the owner or another house member). There may not be any correlation but I wouldn't be surprised if gun owners with a higher number of guns were less likely to be involved in a crime if, as you discuss, that implies they have an interest in guns as a hobby/craft/tool. Organized crime and gang affiliates excluded from the statistics as the bans or regulations people call for will not stop access to those groups.
I doubt it. For understandable reasons, gun owners are not very forthcoming about their arsenals--and, for many of the same reasons, it is illegal for a government entity to collect such statistics.
If I were to make some educated guesses based on what I've seen in person, I would hazard a guess that your stereotypical prepper/survivalist/collector sort is basically never involved in violence involving a gun, whereas the (non-career criminal) people who own one to a handful are more likely to either have their weapons stolen for use in a crime or to use it directly in a crime after having bought their weapons through legitimate channels. But it would take me quite a while to justify that intuition and figure out the reasoning behind it beyond that which you already proposed.