Dick Cavett on Lugers

John Sabato · 01-13-2013, 04:22 PM

You'll enjoy the first half of this at least.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...i-was-packing/

I think everyone should send Dick Cavett a note and invite him to join the forum!

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.

Norme · 01-13-2013, 06:28 PM

Thanks for posting this, John, I enjoyed both halves.
Best regards, Norm

pitsword · 01-14-2013, 07:50 PM

Thanks John. Somewhere I remember watching a black and white movie in a theater with mom and dad. Humphrie Bogart was trying to escape on an aeroplane (maybe lockheed electra) on a fog shrouded aerodrome. As the plane taxied, a bad guy ran out with an axe and chopped a hole in the leading edge, the avgas poured out. Then the bad guy whipped out a P08 and shot into the wing to start a fire. Bogart escaped.

My small town barber, who worked out of a kitchen extension, was an mp in ww2. On the wall by the chair was a shadow box with mint P 38 and an m 1 carbine. I can hear his words now about how he captured some Germans and relieved an officer of this P 38..(still in the grease???). He then told of getting permission to carry that P 38 on duty instead of the 1911.

Another best friends father had a shadow box with a sporting rifle and a P08. Looking at it in awe (and lust) so many times. I do believe it was a 41 or 42 byf. So perfect and so beautiful. To this day, some 50 years later I wonder where that beautiful work of art is.

The luger is the apex of weapon beauty. Just sayin, Vince

BTW, MY p 38, 37 s42 and my Rockola m1 are always close at hand.

Railsplitter · 01-16-2013, 09:31 AM

Just as sort of a follow-up I happened to be watching Don Imus on cable at about 04:20 MST today. He had Dick Cavett on the phone and they were discussing the very article to which Mr. Sabato has provided the link. Interestingly enough, the first subject discussed by Imus / Cavett was gun control as it would pertain to lugers. Both of them were in agreement that the luger should be exempt from any gun regulations that may come out of this. Imus stated that the luger pistol is considered by many to be a work of art and a tribute to German engineering and far more than simply a pistol. Cavett was in total agreement. They both alluded to having heard numerous stories from Veterans who wanted to grab a luger, considering it the ultimate souvenir. Although neither of them currently own a luger, they both exhibited and appreciation of the gun and its place in the history of firearms.

John Sabato · 01-16-2013, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Sabato

I think everyone should send Dick Cavett a note and invite him to join the forum!

I still think this would be a good idea... and while you are at it, invite him to stop by and visit you and your Lugers... give him the chance to shoot one! We can convert celebrities once liberal at a time!

01-13-2013, 04:22 PM	#1
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,155 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,308 Times in 1,098 Posts	Dick Cavett on Lugers You'll enjoy the first half of this at least. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...i-was-packing/ I think everyone should send Dick Cavett a note and invite him to join the forum! __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*

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.

01-13-2013, 06:28 PM	#3
Norme Always A Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,417 Thanks: 226 Thanked 2,607 Times in 933 Posts	Thanks for posting this, John, I enjoyed both halves. Best regards, Norm

01-14-2013, 07:50 PM	#4
pitsword User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Southern Maine Posts: 459 Thanks: 3,964 Thanked 103 Times in 83 Posts	Thanks John. Somewhere I remember watching a black and white movie in a theater with mom and dad. Humphrie Bogart was trying to escape on an aeroplane (maybe lockheed electra) on a fog shrouded aerodrome. As the plane taxied, a bad guy ran out with an axe and chopped a hole in the leading edge, the avgas poured out. Then the bad guy whipped out a P08 and shot into the wing to start a fire. Bogart escaped. My small town barber, who worked out of a kitchen extension, was an mp in ww2. On the wall by the chair was a shadow box with mint P 38 and an m 1 carbine. I can hear his words now about how he captured some Germans and relieved an officer of this P 38..(still in the grease???). He then told of getting permission to carry that P 38 on duty instead of the 1911. Another best friends father had a shadow box with a sporting rifle and a P08. Looking at it in awe (and lust) so many times. I do believe it was a 41 or 42 byf. So perfect and so beautiful. To this day, some 50 years later I wonder where that beautiful work of art is. The luger is the apex of weapon beauty. Just sayin, Vince BTW, MY p 38, 37 s42 and my Rockola m1 are always close at hand.

01-16-2013, 09:31 AM	#5
Railsplitter User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Chandler, AZ Posts: 112 Thanks: 0 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts	Just as sort of a follow-up I happened to be watching Don Imus on cable at about 04:20 MST today. He had Dick Cavett on the phone and they were discussing the very article to which Mr. Sabato has provided the link. Interestingly enough, the first subject discussed by Imus / Cavett was gun control as it would pertain to lugers. Both of them were in agreement that the luger should be exempt from any gun regulations that may come out of this. Imus stated that the luger pistol is considered by many to be a work of art and a tribute to German engineering and far more than simply a pistol. Cavett was in total agreement. They both alluded to having heard numerous stories from Veterans who wanted to grab a luger, considering it the ultimate souvenir. Although neither of them currently own a luger, they both exhibited and appreciation of the gun and its place in the history of firearms.