Posted on 03/04/2009 11:22:02 AM PST by FromLori
Let’s take a look at the silver lining in the cloud that is gun confiscation. Try to remember: nothing is all bad.
Economics are a big consideration. Black market guns will likely be cheaper than they were at the gun shop or sporting goods store. And no more serial numbers on guns or any of that silly paperwork to fill out.
There will be a market driven “trickle down” effect on the end user’s price. To your benefit.
Doncha see? There are at least 65 million gun owners in America today. That’s probably as large a percent of the nation as ignored alcohol Prohibition. 65 million potential customers for black market guns is an awfully attractive business opportunity. And used-to-be gun owners will be seriously motivated buyers. Having someone disarm you is a little more edgy than being told you can’t have a beer. Well … that may be stretching it. But you get my point.
Since the Federal Government won’t be able to license or tax illicit guns (just like they don’t tax crack cocaine, or pot, or trailer park meth) guns will be cheaper right off the bat! Presently, gun makers have to pay a ten percent excise tax on every gun they manufacture. Not on every gun they sell … on every one they make. That cost gets passed on to you. Not so with a black market.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpfo.org ...
I would really rather not go there, thank you.
Has anyone told you Kirby that you are a evil capitalist? LOL!!
Gun confiscation won’t be a problem for me personally.
I used to have a gun or two... I forget just how many.
Anyway, I was out over the deepest part of the lake with my gun collection when the @#$%^& boat capsized, and...
So your telling me, I should not have my AR-15 and that it should be confiscated??
Your insane.
I do not plan on selling MY GUNS...PERIOD! If your going to do that you may as well give up every other right to freedom.
I already told my wife and kids, when they come to collect guns they better leave the house because it ain’t going to be pretty...my wife and kids said “Dad/Honey...we would fight with you..”
Wow, that’s too much to ask for...tears filled my eyes. My poor kids may not be able to live out the life we (honest Americans) intended them to have...it saddens me and pisses me the F—k off as well!
I feel that and I agree with you. Keep your powder dry!
LOL!
He’s a sarcastic one, isn’t he?
Lori (who joined us 6 weeks ago)
Not even a very good try at logic.
Either get much more rational, or much better at trying to BS us!
It would provide me with some live targets for my CQB training for a change.
You do realize the JPFO are all for protection of your rights and the article was intended to make you think don’t you?
Here is something else everyone should consider because just like all the other freedoms being taken away this could easily happen here!
http://waronyou.com/topics/hr-45-family-protection-a-crime-where-we-are-headed/
LOL!
Wrong. Counterfeit goods are normally cheaper. "Real deal" black market items are generally more expensive. That's why Levi's in the former Soviet Union went for $500 a pair.
>> Is this you on the left?
Hmmm... that doesn’t look like
Oh wait! Yeah! That’s me! Losing my guns! Thanks for the picture!
Mindful of events in Portland and Monmouth Oregon, the legislature may ask state campuses to obey state law concerning concealed carry pistols. Legislators are making arguments that removing colleges as preferred sanctuaries for sociopathic brutality and terrorism would benefit students.
A rigorous, twenty-year study by John Lott and William Landes from University of Chicago Law School supports expanded concealed carry in public places. Passage of shall issue laws correlated with large decreases in multiple victim shootings, and reduced harm when shootings actually occurred.
Citizen deadly force makes startling interruptions causing assailants to abandon or improvise plans. Police then respond to incidences in progress, instead of arriving for body counts and paperwork.
Also important are absences of shootings. Public place shootings provide perpetrators leading roles in malevolent fantasies. Previously imagined screams and explosions suddenly penetrate their beings, embellished by intimate, self-created visual stimuli of human terror, bloody mists, broken bodies, culminating in splendid, convulsive suicides at their chosen moment. The latent presence of armed citizens provides a deterrent disqualifying those places. Prospective murderers abandon their fantasies, or seek the supportive environments of “gun free’ zones.
Rather than allow or encourage licensed people to bring pistols into public places, public officials prefer rewards from weaving comforting, popular elusions around Columbine, Omaha mall or Virginia Tech shootings. Colleges tout disturbing protocols for evacuating, witnessing, communicating, containing, coordinating, notifying, counseling, but never confronting. Repeated cases of armed citizens thwarting public violence are not recognized. College campuses remain islands of contentment for predators, during the ten-minute plus police response time.
see number 11
It’s a terrible tragedy.
My condolences, Sir.
I know (hope) this is tongue in cheek, but the reality is that a govt ban drives up the price of any widely desired goods. For example, the so called War on Drugs has done little more than make the drug trade somewhat riskier and far more profitable and illegal drugs far more expensive then they would be in a competitive legal market. There are at least two reasons for this: Illegal selling of a banned good is risky, depressing supply, and competition is by force (defending a territory) rather than by price/quality.
Sarcasim combined with intelligence doesn’t bother me but geez the JPFO is all about making sure we don’t lose our rights see where I’m going there...lol
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