This quote is from a 2nd amendment website:
“… In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian army’s combined.” …
“You also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in just the month of December 2008. …”
Today was the day the local gun show came to town. I always attend but I haven’t bought anything from a gun show in over 15 years so it is more of a gathering of like minded individuals than anything else. Usually as you walk among the different displays and browse over things that you may or may not have an interest in, you catch pieces of conversations between the attendees. Usually they are discussing their latest hunting trip or one they plan to take in the future. They mention things like “I had a rifle just like that one when I was 14 years old and my dad took me squirrel hunting, Dad and the rifle are both but a memory now.” yes, those were good times and memories for these people.
What you don’t hear is conversations saying “I remember the year I got hold of my brothers Ritalin and got high as a kite and shot up a school.” Those people are nut jobs not indicative of gun owners and we despise them as much as you do if not more.
Of course our head of Homeland Security would have you believe the latter. She recently stated that terrorists consist of pro-life people, former military members and gun owners. That is me on all counts, 3 out of 3 ain’t bad, and that is what most of the gun owners I have met up with in my life believe in so I guess according to her the gun show was a meeting of terrorists. I have to admit the atmosphere was not like former gun shows. People were expressing openly their disgust at the current administration and their upcoming attack on the Constitution. Our President was nominated gun salesman of the year. Ammunition prices (if the ammunition was to be had) was 150% higher than before B.O. (Barrack Obama). Firearms that I had sold for $35.00 and $350 dollars previously were on display at $850 and $1250.
Surprisingly the gun show which in previous years usually had about 50 attendees at a time in the show now had over 300 to 350 people in a shopping frenzy despite the high prices. Tensions were high and you could feel the chill in the air as honest people were confronted with the fact that this was perhaps soon to be a thing of the past. Friendships destroyed and comraderie lost as the current freedom destroyers seek to further curb our simple pleasure of shooting at a few tin cans at a shooting range.
There were comments about Texas and the growing number of states that have stated they would push for secession from the union, Montana discussing producing firearms stamped made in Montana and not shipped out of state to avoid Federal control and many other subjects that gun owners are more aware of than the “other people.” I am contemplating one more move before I am done moving around and these things will have an impact on that decision as I wait for these laws to be addressed.
I am 65 years old, pro-life, have served my country honorably in the military and I am a gun owner. I have had one speeding ticket in my life and I deserved it, no argument with authority on that matter. I have never committed a crime in my life. I even had a top secret clearance in the military. If I am the profile of a terrorist, please have the head of homeland security explain to me and others at the gun show why we don’t like terrorists. Oh, that’s right, she refused to apologize for her statement listing like minded individuals such as me as terrorists.
Honorable veteran: She would trust you more if you ran away to Canada.
Pro-Life: She would rather you pitched babies out of a pickup with a pitchfork at 90 miles per hour.
Pro-Gun: Well, I guess her and her kind hate those who believe in the Constitution.
Some things confuse me so.