Customers Pack Connecticut Gun Stores After Deal on Laws

[cbelt3]

hal- agreed.

[hal]

You are agreeing with a post where I'm advocating melting guns? WOOHOO!! I WIN!

[Dennis S]

hal wrote:
You are agreeing with a post where I'm advocating melting guns? WOOHOO!! I WIN!

It's Tuesday. It is well-known that cbelt is somewhat liberal on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On M-W-F, he is conservative. On Saturday, he can see both sides. On Sunday, anything goes.

[Mac-A-Matic]

Steve G. wrote:
Exactly which enemies are they expecting to repel with the increasingly heavy arsenals, again?

I hate to say this, but rather than being based on philosophies and fear, the gun and ammo buying activities are taking on the flavor of good old "knee-jerk consumerism" kicking in.

Reminds me of times in my part of the world when hurricanes or blizzards threaten to strike. Suddenly, there's a rush on toilet paper.

Pretty much the same mentality.

cbelt3 wrote:
I expect a lot of it may be the thrill of owning something that's become 'illegal'. 99.9 % won't use 'em or need 'em.

Considering that the actual 'usage' of these "illegal" items would be their discharge and perhaps shooting of other people, I would have thought people like you would think that "99.9% won't use 'em or need 'em" is the ideal situation...

$tevie wrote:
If anybody in fact "needed" any of that, why haven't they already purchased it in the past?

I'm not too bothered by the latest gun rush - mainly because I've been stocked for years now.

$tevie wrote:
For 5 years you have been told Obama is gonna knock on your door and take your guns.

Lately, Obama has been talking about getting the guns.

Of course, Donny Deutch says Obama "blew it" on guns...

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2,1535130

[cbelt3]

hal wrote:
You are agreeing with a post where I'm advocating melting guns? WOOHOO!! I WIN!

Yes, yes you have. Here's your reward ... :biggrin:

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[Gutenberg]

After the Civil War, without a great big shootin war going on, demand for guns declined and gun manufacturers turned to perfecting and manufacturing type writing machines (as typewriters were called in those days). I think I prefer that era to our own. Perhaps we should blame some of the gun hysteria on the rise of personal computers--gun manufacturers don't make those, and they pretty much killed off the typewriter; so the gunnies had to increase demand by ginning up fear and paranoia.

[Mac-A-Matic]

Gutenberg wrote:
After the Civil War, ... I think I prefer that era to our own.

Yeah, that's a "great" era. I don't think I'd prefer to live in a time without proper medical care, dysentery and racial segregation - not to mention lynchings....

America 2013 may not be a bed of roses, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live on the Civil War Era.

[RgrF]

Your facetious detector needs work.

[Lux Interior]

RgrF wrote:
Your facetious detector needs work.

The survivalists have tunnel vision.