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 ...
> 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...
It works for me. (grin)
>>>>>That’s an exaggeration, of course. <<<<<<
When you can’t think of a good lede, make something up!
Nice rant.
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.
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.
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.
A black man gun controller gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns....
There. Fixed it.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
Thank you!
Let me know if you and your husband start reloading. I was asked to start a thread on tips and such.
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