Did he say anything about militias?
Perhaps they are getting ahead of the next stamp price increase? I bought three SKS rifles in the early '90’s for $99 a piece. Those same rifles are selling at around $400 today.
That does seem odd. I dont know of anyone like that.
It’s not the tool I’m wary about. It’s the tool who wields the tool.
And having been trained as an armed response guard, and having survived 25 years with a stalker, I am trained to protect myself, and at one time had a need to protect myself. I am not overly worried about needing to protect my Second Amendment rights [there are legal ways to do that via political action, going into guerilla warfare a la movies is not the way to do it] As an older handicapped female who does significant long distance road trips with regularity alone as well as spending a lot of time in residence alone, and having no appreciable ability to either escape or evade a bad situation, it happens to be nice to be able to defend myself if a situation does pop up. As an avid consumer of hunted animals [if I can’t cook and eat it, I see no reason to actually shoot at it with anything except a camera] owning hunting weapons makes sense - cant shoot bambi without something to shoot with, and I have some quite excellent recipes for venison.
Gun culture? No - guns are tools not toys, though I do find target shooting relaxing and good for maintaining the skills to use them safely. I feel no need to have a machine gun, nor do I find the need to use an AR15 as a home defense weapon [IMHO a hand gun is a much better tool for that use] and I have no personal problem in needing to have a waiting time and police check to buy a gun.
All good points. And I concur about a reasonable waiting period, etc. A week? Two?
2 weeks strikes me as a good amount of time.
I’ve known several like that, and those are ones I’d classify as gun nuts.
The most egregious example lost everything he owned in a house fire. The firefighters weren’t too thrilled to get too close when ten thousand rounds (or maybe several tens of thousands of rounds, I no longer remember) were cooking off, and the loss was uninsured since of course he’d never wanted to tell the insurance company exactly what and how many he owned.
Getting ahead of a stamp price increase presupposes that you will have a use for the stamps (and if that’s the case, there are plenty of places to get bulk quantities of usable postage stamps at below face value when you need them, rather than tying up money for ‘someday’).
Most guns have seen a reasonable appreciation over the past decade or so, roughly corresponding to the “Obama’s gonna take our guns!” rallying cry. However, most common guns haven’t really kept pace with other investments: the Dow, for example with dividends reinvested has returned north of 1400 percent since the early '90s. (DJIA in July 1992 was around 3300, while it closed today above 27,000.)
You have to also accept the reality that giving people, who aren’t at all “very mindful” about anything, the right to keep guns around in any way they please, is making you less safe. Because if they hate you, they have the drop on you.
Do or did other countries movies and tv always have so much gun violence as is now and was before as the US did?
I’m thinking old westerns and cop shows where guns were everywhere.