A few days ago I went to the grocery store (because milk, bread, and cereal + kids) and I saw someone's truck's many back window stickers. One gun-referencing sticker was mostly covering an NRA sticker, leaving enough of the bottom edge to be recognizable. Now, I don't know if the one on top was more gun-crazy or less, but it amused me. Most of the rest referred to being a veteran.
I meet a fair number of veterans, and I have yet to meet one who isn't critical of the "good guy with a gun" notion, never mind the fantasy of private citizens overthrowing the government with their own arsenals.
This gun owner has said FUCK YOU to the NRA for years.How nice that Wayne gets a couple mil while everyone else gavels for food and money to pay their bills.
Himself & I actually joined the NRA in the mid-80s (in Massachusetts) 'cause deer hunting, etc., gun stuff. THAT sure as hell didn't last too long. People we know also dropped out of it 'cause the craziness had supplanted everything else.
Here in my little burg in North Central PA (right in the Alabammy part that Carville talked about) we have two great big gun stores.(one of them advertises as PA's "Largest"; whether that's still true since Cabela's located in the state, I don't know). Last night on the TV news there was coverage from one county over where they interviewed a gun dealer (wearing a mask, no less) from Bellefonte who was just swimming in customers, lines out the door, all that crap. This morn on the 'net I read and article from a little farther east where a gun dealer was arguing against being classified "nonessential" because, ya know, selling boom sticks is actually a "public safety" activity. (So folks can "protect" their home and hearth, I guess)I'm happy to say that both of our local guys (and as I say, they're both BIG and were in the midst of their annual Spring sales; fishin' season's on it's way soon too) both decided to close about a week ago, before the Gov. even declared a shut down. And these guys ain't hardly the bleedin' heart lib-types either. They just decided it makes sense.
Actually I'm kind of glad that the Legion and the other watering holes are closed up so I don't have to listen to the mouth-breathers that represent that second bunch.
Yes, I don't know why they're so ready to put the old geezers (full transparency- I'm an O.G. myself) out on the from line; that's a sizable part of their base.
One of the talkers ( Dean or Michaelangelo) on SiriusXM was saying yesterday that in Italy the dead are being laid out temporarily on ice skating rinks. With the NHL shut down their palaces could be put to good use.
The ironic thing being that they stand a greater chance of guns being seized by the government under Trump than Obama. If he ever got the chance to use eminent domain to seize private land along the border for WALL, federal marshals would first have to go in ahead of the bureaucrats and contractors to disarm all the property owners being evicted.
I'm waiting for his name to pop up on "Hunters."
A few days ago I went to the grocery store (because milk, bread, and cereal + kids) and I saw someone's truck's many back window stickers. One gun-referencing sticker was mostly covering an NRA sticker, leaving enough of the bottom edge to be recognizable. Now, I don't know if the one on top was more gun-crazy or less, but it amused me. Most of the rest referred to being a veteran.
True, but it may never have the power that the NRA once did.(There is probably somewhere already, just waiting in the wings.)
I meet a fair number of veterans, and I have yet to meet one who isn't critical of the "good guy with a gun" notion, never mind the fantasy of private citizens overthrowing the government with their own arsenals.
Now we need gun manufacturers to get out of the selling of military weapons to civilians.
Shannon Watts rocks!
This gun owner has said FUCK YOU to the NRA for years.How nice that Wayne gets a couple mil while everyone else gavels for food and money to pay their bills.
Amen, sister, indeed. Ta, Liz.
Himself & I actually joined the NRA in the mid-80s (in Massachusetts) 'cause deer hunting, etc., gun stuff. THAT sure as hell didn't last too long. People we know also dropped out of it 'cause the craziness had supplanted everything else.
Excellent.
My 91 year old father's junior year of high school at South High in Youngstown, Ohio, he was president of the Rifle Club.
Here in my little burg in North Central PA (right in the Alabammy part that Carville talked about) we have two great big gun stores.(one of them advertises as PA's "Largest"; whether that's still true since Cabela's located in the state, I don't know). Last night on the TV news there was coverage from one county over where they interviewed a gun dealer (wearing a mask, no less) from Bellefonte who was just swimming in customers, lines out the door, all that crap. This morn on the 'net I read and article from a little farther east where a gun dealer was arguing against being classified "nonessential" because, ya know, selling boom sticks is actually a "public safety" activity. (So folks can "protect" their home and hearth, I guess)I'm happy to say that both of our local guys (and as I say, they're both BIG and were in the midst of their annual Spring sales; fishin' season's on it's way soon too) both decided to close about a week ago, before the Gov. even declared a shut down. And these guys ain't hardly the bleedin' heart lib-types either. They just decided it makes sense.
Actually I'm kind of glad that the Legion and the other watering holes are closed up so I don't have to listen to the mouth-breathers that represent that second bunch.
Yes, I don't know why they're so ready to put the old geezers (full transparency- I'm an O.G. myself) out on the from line; that's a sizable part of their base.
One of the talkers ( Dean or Michaelangelo) on SiriusXM was saying yesterday that in Italy the dead are being laid out temporarily on ice skating rinks. With the NHL shut down their palaces could be put to good use.
The ironic thing being that they stand a greater chance of guns being seized by the government under Trump than Obama. If he ever got the chance to use eminent domain to seize private land along the border for WALL, federal marshals would first have to go in ahead of the bureaucrats and contractors to disarm all the property owners being evicted.