I was doing some browsing at the local gun and military surplus store this week.
This place is an impressively masculine place, if you haven't been to one. Wall to wall machismo.
They have guns - hundreds of them. Pick your projectile dispenser: handguns, rifles of every imaginable caliber, shotguns for hunting or home defense, assault rifles of various national origin.
They have knives - cases of them. Pick your serrated edge.
They have camo - racks of them. All kinds of clothes to disappear in.
What they have most of this week are customers. No recession in there! They were doing a brisk business at the gun counter, let me tell you.
There were only two topics of conversation in the gun store:
1. The election. The general consensus of the Firearms Owner Identification Card-carrying crowd was that either
a. Obama was going to win and then ban guns (so you better get them now while you could) or
b. McCain was going to win and there would be riots in the streets from those angered by denying Obama the presidency - a 2nd American Revolution. Something that I have read a lot of lately on the far left websites that I frequent.
2. Firepower. What weapon or combination of weapons would intimidate an angry mob on your lawn. Okay, I'm exaggerating there - but not much.
By the way, my answer to the question would be some combination of a Chinese or Romanian assault weapon with a 30 round clip, a 9mm with multiple clips, a scoped rifle, and a shotgun. No particular reason I would choose that set.
Just browsing.
Go vote next week. And, please, let's all have a peaceful Nov. 5th whatever the outcome.
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