recent gun sales

[Kensal Rise]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

I've had a table at the Baltimore gun show for many years, and the small numbers of young people coming through the doors, aren't looking at 8 or ten grand Winchesters and SxS pieces...

Mr. Spencer has it mostly right.

However, men of past eras were often wooed by tradition, emotion and sentimentality.

Thus, many of us grew up with the romance of double guns, sunny cool days afield, and the magic they weave.

Sadly, today's youth have little of that. Media is their god. They grow up in a dark basement playing video games. And when they do engage with guns, they relish the AR types they see on-screen, or shotguns with black plastic/camo stocks and matte anodized finish. What's more, their object is efficacy of death dealt out. Not respect for the game and sport, or an interface with the marvels of nature.

Not all kids are like this. But I dare say that too many are.

Where this leaves the future value of your Parker is anyone's guess...

[Steve Hodges]

John, I do not disagree with your observations of many youth today, and also your feeling that of course not all youth are guilty of it, but I guess this is nothing new:

AUTHOR: Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

QUOTATION: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953).