DougC cross the river man. Our Kmart still sells shotguns, some rifles and a bunch of ammo. Don’t remember offhand if they sell evil handgun ammo though.
Great post BTW… took many words right out of my mouth. And that isn’t easy:)
Why is handgun ammo “evil”???
I think it’s cool that someone else out there respects the difference between “Cartridges,” and “Bullets;” and “Clips” and “Magazines.”
I have done many pushups for misusing these terms, and I wish other people would adopt the proper nomenclature.
Wow, talk about cultures crashing. This is like being portugese and discussing snow with an eskimo. Here in Sweden a gun is a gun, which is really any kind of firearm, and should you own one you’ll at best be regarded as a criminal and at worst a complete lunatic (This isn’t my personal opinion, just the widespread one. Whatever floats your boat and all that). I think I’ve seen ONE gun/ammo shop in my entire life. So this whole bullets/cartridges discussion is, although very interesting, something completely foreign to me.
Do carry on though. 
That would probably be “clashing”, not crashing.
Dang.
As a Canadian, I always figured cartridges were what I replaced in my printer, magazines were what the 7-11 guy told me I wasn’t allowed to read since it wasn’t a library, clips were what my girlfriend used to hold her hair back, guns were things that people kill people with, and bullets were the things that you replace in guns, a la printer cartridges.
So if I understand this right, then saying that K-Mart doesn’t sell bullets is kind of like saying they don’t sell soda.
They sell bottles of soda.
Something like that?
No, the bottle is just a container. It would be equivalent to saying that Kmart doesn’s sell cloth, they sell clothes. Or something like that.
Pedantics aside, I actually checked one of our local K-marts on this point. At one point in my life, I can remember buying .44 Mag for my dad at a K-mart… that particular store has since closed down, but I did check at another one in the same city after seeing Moore’s film and noticed that other than .22 LR, they did not seem to carry calibers that would normally be used in handguns.
Of course, as has been noted, there’s a bit of overlap… like the .44 Mag, which of course is chambered in both rifles and pistols.
Quick anatomy of a cartridge, for those who are actually interested:
There’s basically four parts to live ammo:
-Case: this is the (reusable) brass container.
-Primer: this is an explosive that goes off when crushed. It’s small and fits into a little hole at the bottom of the case. when you fire the gun, a firing pin slides into it and crushes it.
-Gun powder: technically a flammable, rather than an explosive. It is ignited by the primer and burns very fast when confined, generating gas that propels the bullet.
-Bullet: the piece that actually flies out the end of the gun.
So yeah, CurtC’s analogy about cloth vs. clothes is closer than the soda/ bottles of soda one.
Apologize for the IMHO response, but the reason is obvious: The teacher is very likely a gun bigot, and he or she wished to use their position of influence to impose their anti-freedom propaganda on impressionable students. Happens all the time. 
I dunno, I consider myself a liberal I suppose but I thought that Bowling for Columbine was not a very honest movie. I even considered that the movie was made by conservatives to discredit liberals - much like how the Socialist party is actually run by the Republican party.