{"id":1046,"date":"2011-06-06T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2011-06-06T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T02:44:30","slug":"getting-over-a-fear-of-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Getting Over A Fear of Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like em or hate em, guns are something that are out there. I’ve never had an opinion on them one way or another – but at the same time, I had never really given any thought to the concept of going to a place to fire off a bunch of lead at a target. Not because I thought anything bad of it.. <\/p>\n

Truthfully.. i’ve always been scared of guns. Guns in the wrong hands have killed friends and loved ones… they just make me very very nervous. <\/p>\n

So recently, I was invited by my friends Jay and Susan to go out and just get a better understanding of them. Saturday morning we set out – with their arsenal in tow, and I spent the day working through different types of guns and shooting them at Shooting Sports Tampa<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One of the things that I couldnt wrap my head around was just how loud a gun actually is. That in itself was very unnerving. The other thing that really left a mark with me was the cross-section of people that were at the range. Mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. Businessmen and free-wheelers.. It seemed like everyone was taking fun, in a quite responsible manner. There were all of these rules – that everyone was quick to point out was for safety and general welfare of those around them. <\/p>\n

While Susan was shooting a Mini 14 rifle – I thought it a good idea to try to see if I can capture the muzzle fire of the gun. They pointed out that they thought it would be very hard to capture it. I thought that not only could I capture it.. I may even try to do an HDR of it. Camera and Tripod in tow, I setup for the shot and played around with it in post. That’s what you see above. <\/p>\n

That night, while I laid in bed I wasn’t left with a Testosterone filled high of being able to overcome a fear. I laid there with a sense of humility. I thought about those soldiers of ours – kids really – that are out there firing these loud dangerous machines in the face of danger for our safety. I thought about the power this thing had to protect – and harm human life. I was left with a tremendous amount of respect and caution – something I dont think I was really ready for. Whether I do it again or not – it was an incredible lesson in respect. For that, I was truly grateful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like em or hate em, guns are something that are out there. I’ve never had an opinion on…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-shoots","8":"category-photography","9":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}