The line stretched really far back, almost like waiting to get in a concert or club.
A lot of us here were going to gun shows before gun shows were cool...
Absolutely amazing. Where were all these people before Obama got elected ? Did they just SUDDENLY get the desire for an AR or AK ? These guns have been available at decent prices for years and just now everybody wants one ?
I think if CNN announced that there would be a dog crap shortage, some people would run out and start hoarding dog crap.
Excellent questions which hit center mass sideways and all the internal organs
with one shot. Here are the answers:
1. Most of these people did actually vote in this past election, but have sat
on their butts politically (from the local thru the national level) for their entire
adult lives. They are typically no where to be found when the chairs are
being set out and the food cooked, show up at the end of the meal and
grab some dessert, then are no where to be found for clean-up and stacking
the chairs.
2. People were too busy buying 178" flat screens for their toxic mortgaged
2nd vacation home while checking their stock reports to see if they would
have enough money to buy a boat bigger than the Joneses. Then this new
item --GUNS-- hit their radar screen. Despite their 401ks losing 40% of value
over the pasy year, they can still afford a way over-priced gun. On top of
that they feel a mix of patriotism and having made a good investment. Well,
mostly a good investment.
add in for next point as well:
1) Lowest dealer price on a Mosin Nagant was $250
3. Yes, if directed by forces seemingly out of the blue, Americans would buy
dog cr@p at vastly inflated prices above and beyond the current market
price of dog cr@p. Although fresh, moist, glistening dog cr@p currently
has some value to buyers on the desirable dog cr@p market, a run on dog
cr@p would cause the entire market to go up in price including the price for
what use to be undesirable old and chalky dog cr@p that was about to turn
to powder in the front yard anyway.
4. Here is the important point: Americans are consumers first and maybe
citizens second...or third...or...What you are seeing are all those American
consumers acting as one now. Too bad it wasn't LONG prior to the election
in a citizen activist way. It would have prevented things from getting to this
point in the first place.
5. Yes, I am a harsh old b@stard, but I'm tired of finding myself stacking the
chairs before and after events with the same handful of people year after
year, only to leave in the wee hours and hear people still b#tching about
the meal in the parking lot as they're getting drunk. As I start my car to
leave, the next rant they're on is complaining about how "the man" has done
this all to them, they had no power to change things, so why bother to
vote or get involved anyway...Really...
6. This nation has always been a pot-luck event. We're only going to get
back what we put in TOGETHER at the start.
7. Was this too long? Did I lose your attention before you got to this point?
No. Excellent! Please arrive one hour early at the next event and help us
get ready. My back hurts and you look young enough for the grunt work
with setting out the chairs. I'll be adding spice to the chili
