monotonous_iterancy
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Over the summer I went to a gun show. The guns were nice, the atmosphere was friendly, and accessories were plentiful. I picked up some goodies.
Yet among the typical stuff - guns, knives, gold & silver, etc. were several snake-oil peddlers. One sold "essential oils", another sold a hologram bracelet which supposedly reacts with "ions in the blood" and cured the migraines of the sales lady. The wackiest was "colloidal silver", a mixture of water and silver which supposedly cures just about everything when you drink it, even ailments that have nothing to do with each other. The guy at the table said it healed his spider bite.
All three were husband and wife teams, all of them peddled nonsense.
What exactly makes charlatans like this show up at gun shows? Is there something about them that attracts these characters?
Yet among the typical stuff - guns, knives, gold & silver, etc. were several snake-oil peddlers. One sold "essential oils", another sold a hologram bracelet which supposedly reacts with "ions in the blood" and cured the migraines of the sales lady. The wackiest was "colloidal silver", a mixture of water and silver which supposedly cures just about everything when you drink it, even ailments that have nothing to do with each other. The guy at the table said it healed his spider bite.
All three were husband and wife teams, all of them peddled nonsense.
What exactly makes charlatans like this show up at gun shows? Is there something about them that attracts these characters?