Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

It's a madhouse outside the gun shops, too (Barf Alert)
The Newport News Daily Press ^ | November 19, 2008 | Tamara Dietrich

Posted on 11/28/2008 11:54:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A black man gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns and squirreling away supplies like fatalists awaiting the End of Days.

That's an exaggeration, of course.

Barack Obama is biracial, not black.

And it's not half the country diving, but a goodly portion of us, judging by soaring gun sales post-Election Day that have even hit Hampton Roads.

"Stock up on guns, ammunition, and canned goods," a reader named "Church Slave" suggests in our online Topix system. "And maybe a candy bar or two."

I'm no stranger to the idea of laying in supplies for lean times; I have Mormons in the family.

What is new is the drumbeat of imminent doom running through feedback posts as readers digest the idea of Barack Obama in the White House.

"Hee hee heeeee ..." chortles "HG Robinson" in the very first post to reporter Peter Dujardin's story last week on the local run on weaponry.

"Clearly President Obama is looking to ban handguns and close loopholes in the law first chance he can. ... You gun nuts better stock up now."

First, Obama hasn't said he wants to ban handguns. And second, my own theory is that HG is a so-called gun nut, himself or herself, just priming the pump.

I have similar suspicions about a poster who signs off as "Tyrone" (really? Not Denzel or Tyrell or Sambo?) and taunts that he will "break into your house and rape you" and "Nobody should have guns but us thugs!"

Sure enough, some dupe bites.

"Bring it on Tyrone," growls a "mr white," "and you will be one DEAD African!!!!!"

Intelligent discourse, it's not — it's the pointless baiting and biting you get when a dog chases its own tail.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; barackobama; bho2008; economy; obama; presidentelectobama; racism; rtkba
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last
To: danamco

> The real reason is because Hussein has NOT shown his vault birth certificate and the pending SCOTUS lawsuits!!!

Sounds like a good reason to me: you are about to be “ruled” by His Excellency and you still haven’t been given the decency of knowing whether he’s even entitled to “rule” you.

It is an astonishing situation, to say the least...


41 posted on 11/29/2008 5:02:23 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: DieHard the Hunter
Actually, I’m a Freemason — does that help?

It works for me. (grin)

42 posted on 11/29/2008 5:04:59 AM PST by PalmettoMason (Can't we all just get along? At least until I'm finished reloading?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>>>>That’s an exaggeration, of course. <<<<<<

When you can’t think of a good lede, make something up!


43 posted on 11/29/2008 5:38:49 AM PST by angkor (Conservatism is not a religious movement.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nahanni

Nice rant.


44 posted on 11/29/2008 5:45:24 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: chainsaw
What these people are doing is trying to help the economy. They are spreading the wealth around and getting the money into circulation - Nothing wrong with that.

This year, we made a decision to stop buying Christmas presents for nearly everyone except the son and his wife: they will get ammunition for their shooting irons. I bought myself a Remington 870 Express Tactical along with a Vang large-head safety to go on it, got some extra parts, cleaning supplies, etc, and that is pretty much the sum total of our end-of-the-year spending. Dollarwise, we probably dropped as much or more than we did last year, but it was far more selectively spent... with regards to both WHAT was bought and WHERE it was bought. Elections have many consequences, not just the ones that are anticipated.

After watching so many of our quondam "fellow Americans" happily condemn the nation to a B. Hussein Obama presidency, the wife and I have decided that since the nation has gotten its precious freakin' "change," we are going to take our ball - or more correctly, whatever part of the tattered little toy we still have left in our hands - and go home, leaving the masses to stampede Wal-Marts when they are not busy obsessing over sports and/or porn.

45 posted on 11/29/2008 6:03:44 AM PST by niteowl77
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't give a rats a** that this POS is black or whatever. It's the fact that the libs have been trying to take away our weapons and finally might get what they want.

Why are we buying extra ammo? Here's my tin foil hat time. What if they start requiring I.D. to buy ammo? Even with unregistered weapons you could be tracked down. Call me paranoid but I like to consider myself prepared.

46 posted on 11/29/2008 6:15:51 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
What does Obama's race, mixed such as it is, have to do with anything, especially gun and ammo sales? There was the increase in gun and ammo sales to Clinton and his stated plans, so it has nothing to do with "blackness" and everything to do with philosophy.

There are quite a few black men and women who, if elected, would not have generated gun sales. Quite the opposite, as they and their rhetoric would have been reassuring to those of us who believe in the Constitution and our capitalist economic system. Instead of gun and ammo sales booming, it would have been the stock market booming rather than its continual slide into oblivion.

47 posted on 11/29/2008 6:19:39 AM PST by GBA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
A black man gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns

A black man gun controller gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns....

There. Fixed it.

48 posted on 11/29/2008 6:44:32 AM PST by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: danamco

Conservatives learned to deal with things like losing this election. The libs might not be able to deal if the Birth Certificate goes against them.

I bought all the things I need which I lost the last time a gun grabber was in the White House.


49 posted on 11/29/2008 6:53:46 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: chris37

This clearly shows the difference between left and right. To the right, it is rational response to prepare for the worse. Much like the Katrina refuges, liberals think being a dependent, victim is rational.

I predict episodes of national anarchy like the LA riots. The effect of the Democrat induced depression hasn’t even hit yet. Americans will be unhappy being poor and hungry.

I’m prepared to defend my family and feed them for a month. Doesn’t sound nutty to me.


50 posted on 11/29/2008 7:37:38 AM PST by y6162 (ater)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

How Ironic...just found this post over at the Dummies...

FarCenter (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-29-08 09:21 AM
Response to Original message
1. Guns don’t kill; ammunition kills
There are too many guns in circulation, and they are too long lived for gun control to ever be effective in the US.

On the other hand, banning the manufacture, importation and sale of centerfire pistol ammunition, except to the military and sworn peace officers, would likely be highly effective.

Since ammunition is a “consumable” and becomes unreliable with time, most would be removed from circulation fairly rapidly and the rest would be hoarded.


51 posted on 11/29/2008 7:41:22 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ladyvet
Lots of folks are “reloaders”, they better stock up on supplies while they still can.
52 posted on 11/29/2008 7:43:38 AM PST by Ditter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: chainsaw

“A black man gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns and squirreling away supplies like fatalists awaiting the End of Days.”

I think it’s very likely that Obamachev will promote race based policies reducing whites to second class citizens. Whites have ever reason to be concerned.


53 posted on 11/29/2008 7:45:09 AM PST by y6162 (ater)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Ditter
Guess what equipment for a hobby my husband wants for Christmas? I told him to have at it.
54 posted on 11/29/2008 7:55:29 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: ladyvet
My husband doesn’t reload anymore. We have a room full of equipment I'd like to pass on to you (but of course he won't agree). LOL!
55 posted on 11/29/2008 8:42:34 AM PST by Ditter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: ladyvet

http://www.dillonprecision.com/

Buy a 550 reloader. Trust me on this. You won’t regret it.


56 posted on 11/29/2008 8:53:02 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Ditter

I know what you mean. My husband has a garage full of mining stuff that he will never use again and won’t get rid of any of it.


57 posted on 11/29/2008 8:55:08 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Shooter 2.5

Thank you!


58 posted on 11/29/2008 8:56:26 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: ladyvet

Let me know if you and your husband start reloading. I was asked to start a thread on tips and such.


59 posted on 11/29/2008 9:16:54 AM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Vote against the dem party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing quite like it when a lefthanded vulva with ears so totally misses the point.
60 posted on 11/29/2008 11:59:54 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson