Dick Cavett on Lugers

NoncomRetired · 01-13-2013, 04:48 PM

"As a kid watching Saturday afternoon World War II movies in Nebraska, I fell head over heels in love. With the Luger. I don’t expect more than a handful of folks to know what I’m talking about. But it was real and it was intense; terms usually associated, I know, with a love affair.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed."

The only part I could associate with..................

Reading some of the reply comments, to me, especially the guy from Massachucetts, shows how people are unaware that back during Cavett's boyhood, my boyhood and many here boyhoods, violence with a firearms due to watching John Wayne shoot the "japs" and Errol Flynn shoot "krauts" did not result in us doing the same thing to innocent people, we knew better, we were taught better and maybe, just maybe, we were much more mature at age ten than so many 20 year old idiots today who's life evolves around a human interest TV program where everyone wants to have their fifteen minutes of fame, famous or infamous, doesn't seem to matter. Life seems to have taken a back seat to a reality show and fame....IMO.

Maybe I should have said that in reply to the article instead.

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01-13-2013, 04:48 PM	#2
NoncomRetired Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 719 Thanks: 144 Thanked 306 Times in 146 Posts	"As a kid watching Saturday afternoon World War II movies in Nebraska, I fell head over heels in love. With the Luger. I don’t expect more than a handful of folks to know what I’m talking about. But it was real and it was intense; terms usually associated, I know, with a love affair. There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed." The only part I could associate with.................. Reading some of the reply comments, to me, especially the guy from Massachucetts, shows how people are unaware that back during Cavett's boyhood, my boyhood and many here boyhoods, violence with a firearms due to watching John Wayne shoot the "japs" and Errol Flynn shoot "krauts" did not result in us doing the same thing to innocent people, we knew better, we were taught better and maybe, just maybe, we were much more mature at age ten than so many 20 year old idiots today who's life evolves around a human interest TV program where everyone wants to have their fifteen minutes of fame, famous or infamous, doesn't seem to matter. Life seems to have taken a back seat to a reality show and fame....IMO. Maybe I should have said that in reply to the article instead.