Gun Lesson from Katrina

[sar]

In todays NY Times:

Many relief workers and volunteers say the worries over crime reflect more wholesale stereotyping of people fleeing a catastrophe than anything based in fact, but safety is a major issue. At the height of the post-storm panic last week, people waited in line for three and a half hours at Jim's Firearms, a giant gun and sporting goods store. Many were people from New Orleans with their own safety issues. But many were local residents jumpy about the newcomers from New Orleans and stocking up on Glock and Smith & Wesson handguns.
Jim Siegmund, a salesman at Jim's recently returned from military service in Iraq, said he did not think there was anything to worry about. Still, holding a cellphone in his hand and comparing it to a 9-millimeter handgun he said: "When push comes to shove, this won't protect you, but a Glock 9 will."
Many relief workers and volunteers say the worries over crime reflect more wholesale stereotyping of people fleeing a catastrophe than anything based in fact, but safety is a major issue. At the height of the post-storm panic last week, people waited in line for three and a half hours at Jim's Firearms, a giant gun and sporting goods store. Many were people from New Orleans with their own safety issues. But many were local residents jumpy about the newcomers from New Orleans and stocking up on Glock and Smith & Wesson handguns.
Jim Siegmund, a salesman at Jim's recently returned from military service in Iraq, said he did not think there was anything to worry about. Still, holding a cellphone in his hand and comparing it to a 9-millimeter handgun he said: "When push comes to shove, this won't protect you, but a Glock 9 will."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/n...&en=b05f63eb9f64867c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

 

[longeyes]

hence the phrase...

In Glock we trust.

 

[Standing Wolf]

There's no problem, but there's a problem.

Yep. Sounds like the kind of witless gibberish you'd expect to see in the New York Times.

 

[DeseoUnTaco]

 

[Logan5]

"Stocking up" on "glock and Smith & Wesson handguns"? Name one other thing that you can go out and buy one of, and it's reported as "stocking up." I seriously doubt people are buying three or four at a time... and even if they were, would buying three or four bottles of water, or packages of top ramen, be "stocking up", or what? The rampant fearmongering is clearly way, way out of control.

 

[fulloflead]

When the SHTF I'll avoid those long lines at the gun shop.

I have enough for me, my family and several of my closest friends.

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[beerslurpy]

I keep one for every shooting activity.

22 pistol- tree-rats and rah-kewns
380 keltec- ccw, dont really keep a ton of ammo handy for this
40 full size- backup gun for hunting, or carry if open carry ever becomes legal again. I am low on ammo for this.
saiga 12- mostly fooling around, cooking off rounds and hitting people with the ejected shells at the range. I guess I coudl use it for self defense or hunting. I keep a 50 cal can full of 00 buck.
ak47- home defense, I keep several thousand rounds handy, 2-300 in mags
7mm rem bolt gun- reach out and touch a caribou or maybe a blue helmet. I have maybe 20-30 rounds of this on hand.

 

[mfree]

Hrmm. I'm going to go on slight tangent here.

Ok, we've not got our fair share of refugees yet in Knoxville, though they're arriving shortly (or yesterday, I haven't seen the news). I may be helping there, since I got pleaded with. I don't get pled with often... so I may see my 70 hour work week jump to 90 or so with volunteer...

....anyways, I'm not *paranoid* about the refug/evacuees, they're just common folk boggled and bungled by circumstances.

I still moved my Norc SKS-M loaded with 30 of 7.62x39 hollowpoints into the bedroom closet, ready to go with a pull of the bolt. Most people are just folks, yes. A small percentage of who ends up here, down the street from where I live, may not be playing games. They'll shortly find out that I don't play, either.

 

[boofus]

Glock? no way. In Heckler & Koch Polizei Selbstlade Pistole I trust.

 

[Lobotomy Boy]

I'd been busy with life and my career over the past 20 years and my gun collection had dwindled to a Model 99 Savage and a Mossberg 500 home defense gun. Then a couple of years back I started thinking about what might happen if the SHTF. It occured to me that the government barely functions when times are good and the living is easy. At the first sign of trouble it would break down and fall apart like an old Ironhead Sportster running on just one cylinder. So I started stocking up on weapons and ammo. I don't put my gun collection on my tag line because I'd rather not advertise what I have, but trust me, if the SHTF, I will be well-prepared to defend and feed my family for a long, long time.

Oh yeah, in Glock we also trust. We can argue about a gun's "personality" or "soul" or whether or not it's ugly and whether life is too short for ugly guns, but when the lives of my loved ones might be on the line, I want a gun that goes "bang" every time and don't really give a pile of feces about any of that nonsense.

 

[Waitone]

Rumors floating around out there disclose how survivors formed militia groups to offer protection and counter the anarchy. No print reports yet.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Rumors floating around out there disclose how survivors formed militia groups to offer protection and counter the anarchy. No print reports yet.

[Tinfoil Hat]
And you are not likely to see any either. There is a tight clamp on the number of dead and anything else the .gov doesn't want us (you know, the one's footing the bill through our tax dollars) to know. [/Tonfoil Hat]