Yes, of course she was shooting blanks. I guess what I object to is the cavalier attitude towards guns performances like this tend to generate. When the general population sees this type of show they may forget how dangerous firearms can be. It certainly does not generate respect for firearms.
Personally, I don't see these as any different than the kinds of Bugs Bunny cartoons we grew up with. If people can't tell the difference between show and reality, I really don't know what kind of hope there is for them.
I knew Superman wasn't real when I was a kid...and that my Halloween costume one year would NOT make me fly, make me invulnerable, make me able to see through walls, or set fire to things with my eyes. I knew Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff wasn't going to get up and walk away in real life. I knew Daffy Duck getting his beak blown to the opposite side of his head by a shotgun wasn't a reflection of what would happen in the real world.
People have forever made a living as performers of dangerous feats throughout recorded history. People breathing fire, jugglers of various objects, barnstormers and other aerial acrobatic feats, Evel Knievel and his motorcycle stunts, to name a few. Heck, the entire space race was one dangerous feat stacked up on another.
And if anybody out there thinks the kind of twirling feats demonstrated here is somehow "easy" or doesn't engender "respect for firearms", then perhaps they ought to try their hand at a simple spin using a 32 to 47 ounce Colt SAA and see for themselves what it's like.
There's "respect"...and then there's "respect". There's a difference between a performer and a jack***.
