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Wal-Mart Stores Sell Out Of Guns
Yesterday, when we described the unprecedented surge in gun sales in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, we said that "what is most ironic, is that it is precisely the fear of forced, unilateral rejection, by either or all three branches of government, of the original constitution and its various amendments that has Americans scrambling into gun stores. And thus the closed loop nature of the problem: by threatening to take away America's guns, the government is only exacerbating a problem that is steeped in 200+ years of history and is engrained deep in American psychology." It took about 24 hours to demonstrate just how counterproductive government intervention always is: as of this moment, Bloomberg reports, Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in the US and the world, has stores in at least five states where guns are now completely out of stock.
With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay (EBAY) and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14. By contrast, Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS) suspended sales of similar guns at its more than 500 stores.
Searches of five kinds of semi-automatic rifles on Wal- Mart’s website showed them to be out of stock at stores in five states, including Pennsylvania, Kansas and Alabama. Wal-Mart doesn’t sell guns online, instead asking customers to input a zip code to see if their local store carries a specific weapon.
“We remain dedicated to the safe and responsible sale of firearms in areas of the country where they are sold,” David Tovar, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said yesterday. He didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.
Wal-Mart has about 10 modern sporting rifles, the gun industry’s term for firearms that look like an M-16 military rifle, listed on its website. The retailer removed a description and picture of the Bushmaster AR-15, which was the model used in Newtown, after the shootings.
Who benefits from the government's pseudo intervention? None other than the uber-wealthy Walton family.
The move may have helped as U.S. Wal-Mart stores posted their first gain in same-store sales in more than two years in October 2011. Wal-Mart doesn’t disclose how many guns it sells, though at an analysts’ meeting in October it said gun revenue gained 76 percent in the first half of this fiscal year. The chain advertised a Sig Sauer M400 as one of its Black Friday doorbusters last month, offering the rifle for $50 off at $867.
It gets worse: now that guns are transforming from a commoditized to a niche, collectible product, whose future is unclear due to what the government may or may not do, the supply, demand dynamics have shifted massively in favor of the side that pushes the equilibrium price higher (just so even central-planning economists understand this).
On EBay Inc.'s auction website, shoppers have recently bid up gun magazines. The current bid for four Glock handgun magazines, ammunition for one of the guns used at Newtown, is $118.37 compared with $45 on the day before the shooting. The bid for seven Glock magazines hit $201 on Dec. 17 from $71.01 before the massacre.
Gun buyers have flooded other firearms retailers too. The Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, racked up more than $1 million in sales yesterday for the best single-day performance since the store opened in 1959, according to Justin Anderson, director of online sales. At the top of shoppers’ lists was the Bushmaster AR-15, the model of rifle used at Newtown that sells for as much as $4,000 and had almost sold out, he said.
Revenue at one of the largest U.S. gun stores surpassed even the spike just after Obama was elected president in 2008, Anderson said in a telephone interview. Sales weren’t as robust when Obama was re-elected last month because the president hadn’t backed major new gun laws, he said.
While we have no interest in pursuing any of the ethical sides of this argument, we do know that the more the government intervenes, even if it is with the noblest intentions, the greater the adverse and negative fallout will be. And, in typical government fashion, the more it pushes to get its way (or the highway) the greater the tragic consequences result in a country which - by dint of simply what it is - has over 300 million weapons. Good luck and godspeed with any hopes of "controlling" them.
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Zerotohero
dont waste your time, ZH became a rallying point for dummies. These people dont want to understand the difference between gun control and gun confiscation.
As often the bigger the guns the smaller the d..k.
I would rather be stupid as a sack of nails, than useless as a sack of shit.
America is the land of opportunity - you can be both
Come on, people. What is this, amateur hour?
DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!
you bit - nice
Now you tell me. I'm new here, missed that 'warning troll' shingle over the entrance.
Thanks
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u·nique /yo?o?n?k/ AdjectiveBeing the only one of its kind; unlike anything else:
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Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year.
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#crime
See here we go again - you actually believe the shit written in one of these "journals" - see this is part of the problem
For how long have you displayed a "Gun Free Zone" sign in front of your house?
betcha i'm smarter than you are
and i carried a weapon to fight for my country, as did a male of my family in every war america has been involved in since 1812 you piece of shit
i lost family members to wars in 1814,1863,1918,1952.1973
maybe not all of them were just and right but we did our share to protect our rights as americans
one of those is the right to keep and bear arms
if you dont want to use that right its fine by me, but dont try to curtail the rights i and many others have fought for
johnny did you eat glue in school?
I discovered that one of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary war.He was a commander and was rewarded for his excellent prosecution of the war with a large land grant in Pennsylvania.
Very cool indeed.I think he would want me to have guns....lots of guns.And be well versed in their use.
It is just the traditional American thing to do.It is also an actual duty as a citizen....a point sadly lost on those who would destroy this country completely.
Gun owners=citizens.
Unarmed=slaves and victims....waiting for the hammer to fall.
20th century history....is it that hard to understand?
well break out the banners and whistles for ole' fuckin ancestors - now go back to your video game - I'm sure your some super duper black ops specialist - mom called from upstairs your KD is ready
Well, that did it. You finally blew your cover and proved yourself to be nothing more than a teenager at his bedroom PC. Trashing another ZeroHedge'rs family line...only cowards do that. Cowards or bratty 15-year-olds.
Come back when you've grown up.
Are you sure all those wars since 1812 were "for my country?" The threat to the Second Amendment, if there is one, is from your own government. The same one your family fought and died in wars for. Reevaluate your logic or your rhetoric. One or both is out of whack.
". . . a male of my family in every war america has been involved in since 1812. . ."
Grenada and Panama too? Wow, you must be proud!
Some of my ancestors fought in King Phillip's War. I guess I've got you beat.
Look at your down arrows. haha we win!
ok
What are you, a 12 year old?
Sit quietly there in your mom's basement and watch some YouTube - you've received more than enough attention today.
ZeroHedgers: We normally don't shun posters (or just do so politely) but now might be a good time to start.
somewhere....
That disgusting cunt Piers Morgan is developing a nervous tick
I hope this buying frenzy gives that POS an apoplexy.
I hope it caused his diarrhea of the mouth to move south.
All the above I agree!!!! That POS should go back to his QUEEN and the 900 to GDP debt ratio, this cock sucker said to the Gun Owners of America that he was an idiot.....Even Howard Stern thinks he is a POS .....And I like Howard.. The Rupert Murdoch scandal that YOU WHERE A PART OF!!!!!! You are a slug that slimed your way out because CNN covered your ASS.....
He got the CNN gig to get out of the UK because that cell phone scandal was getting close to him.
Most people here do not know about it. The phone scandal was Murdoch's news of the world was hacking celebs and others cell phones. Brit intell types helped them. Murdoch had to shut down news of the world which is a MAJOR scandal newspaper around since 1840 or something.
They hack loads of people's cell phones including Hugh Grant, British royals, loads of celebs and a little girl dying of cancer.
Murdoch/Fox is NOT our friend. ALL of TV and ALL of Hollywood will disarm you in a minute. F them. Do not support them.
And O-Phone is a full-on Retard.
it's actually "tic".
A tick is a blood sucking parasite...oh, wait....
nice one.....me "likey"
This will not end well. An angry and increasingly desperate and armed population.
"only the dead have seen an end to war." --- Plato
markar
View history; they will STARVE us out.
"Keep stackin' my friends"
An angry, easily malleable, low information and increasingly desperate and armed population.
Fixed that for you; at this point, the jaws of the trap are closing. Expect FEAR FEAR FEAR from the MSM and the Fringe 3-letter agency sponsored sites such as InfoWars. It's very much easier to "clean house" when the other party starts it, isn't it? Old trick. Anyone expecting the Republican party to exist in its current state in 4 years is somewhat naive, I feel. WASPs? Sure. JesusLand (sorry, the South)? Sure. United Party still? Doubtful.
...Cold Dead Hands. People forget that he starred in the tripartite Armageddon film glory in the 1970's: Solyent Green, Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man.
I sense a common theme there; oh, and wait until everyone realises just who is pulling the strings. Blow-back ain't just for Afganistan, methinks.
You my friend have this situation well confined to it's conclusion...BRAVO
Joey Boo-Boo is going to put ya'll back in chains. Joey, you can fight with your chains, I prefer my LaRue 7.62 OBR.
5 Mill armed US citizens.. largest Militia in the World.
Fortunately most of them are more like Barney Fife than Rambo.
-Fife
Barney Fife, Barney Fife. Where have I heard that name before? Wasn't he just named the gun czar?
Don't be so sure. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/veteranscensus1.html
How many do you think it really takes to totally fuck up the system, cause chaos, shut down the power grid, disrupt supply lines and cause the government to collapse?
There are people that know the answer to this question. Do you know the answer to this question?
:)
sorry what was the question
Less than 1%...and you dont even need a gun. Now im going to go back to stuffing twinkies in my face since it will never happen.
Umm... those are all things I see the government doing to cause society to collapse. Government isn't going away any time soon, as these actions only spur the demand for more of it in the form of...
SAVE US!!
And if militant individuals start fucking things up? Well, that just creates the mandate they want without them having to lift a finger (as allegedly evidenced by the recent shooting).
In other words, the only way to win is to choose not to fight, but rather walk away from systemic evil. Like any form of evil, it can only die once we stop supporting it. To fight evil, is to empower it.
Divide and Conquer 101.
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zerotohero
I will smile with contentment, when I hear you starved to death, and there were squirrels and rabbits all around.
Hope your EBT card get inflationary adjustment. NOT.
i don't know about any EBT card but my Visa is maxed buddy
+1000
Well there are about 5 to 6 million hunting licenses in about 6 states - MI, NY, PA, WS, OH and Texas. All with scoped rifles usually in .308.
Florida, GA and AL have at least 2 million CCW holders. Go for it libs.
Don't forget the upper Mid-West. !
Most would take that ten-round 3 oh 8 mag with bolt action and a scope any day.
"Where'd that come from, comrade?
COMRADE?
edit: oops. You did not forget. MI and WS....
+1
Pennsylvania will be interesting if the SHTF and the EBT cards fail. Philly will fan out looking for food. I doubt the "red neck" hunters in the sticks with .308 scoped rifles will be putting up with too much. PA has about 600K to 800 K licensed hunters alone.
MI and WS are way up there too.
In this fantasy of yours, are all these rifle-wielding hunters marching in formation against liberal Hollywood gun-grabbers? Are FBI, ATF, etc, staffed full of liberals? Did the millions of gun-owning Americans prevent Ruby Ridge or Waco from happening? By all means, buy all the guns you want. But all the bravado in this thread is ridiculous.
F Hollywood and F TV. If LA has riots - this time. Good luck. All the libs were climbing over each other to try to get a gun during Rodney King. The cops were no where to be found.
Do NOT come crying to any of us when you're running scared. You deserve what you get in the end. That was not intended to make an assumption about your sexuality - you obviously are sensitive about that so I wouldn't do that.
5 million? The number is probably more like 60 million.
It's only $20/year to join GOA. Imagine if GOA had as many members as NRA.
Igun new Imania
The most surefire way to make Americans want something more than ever is to make it illegal. Gawd, O'bomb-a and his minions are fuckin' tools.
Kneejerk gun and ammo sales increase 4thQ GDP by +0.3798.
Corporations win again, invest profits in Communist China.
So now do you feel safe already?
World wants to know, mrekans being wound up thiter than a whatchamakalid on dyslexia.
Please buy all you need to feel safe....
AND LEAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD ALONE
thank you
Yeah, that policy worked well for you when Germany overran your borders at the onset of WWII.
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The fellow who wants to take Americans' guns for our own good is the same guy who bombs foreign folks for their own good.
+1 x QEinfinity lol
Well, I have read through this thread and cannot stop but shake my head in disbelief. That Walmart should be selling guns says to me that you guys are so far out there that there is probably no way back .... best of luck as you "self-defend" each other .....
Off topic kinda.
Silver is going to be sold out soon too with the sale that is about to come our way.....
So the relation to story is sold out.
Kitcos silver page shows NEGATIVE -5.80% FOR ONE YEAR LEASE RATE.
Every time this happens the fuckers load up and drive the price down .
Check it out on kitcos silver lease rate page and watch for the big sale comming up.
Cheers..!
Ps...fuck you Jon.
Yes silver is going to sell out but it's because the NRA now believes in Vampires and god knows their members are gonna need all the silver bullets they can get....at Walmart??
Silver bullets are for lycanthropes or witches, not vampires.
If you're going to be snarky, get your mythology straight.
didnt he say earlier in the thread that he was stupid as a bag of nails?
u get the point
That's it -- the pointy stake is for vampires. You're catching on.
meh - not enough coffee today
Surely, "pointy" and "wood" are his #1 distraction.
uhoh gun lover and homophobe - nice combo
How does homophobia factor into this thread??
"homo" = same
"phobia" = fear
So if someone disagrees with you, you're saying they're therefore afraid of you? If you don't agree with my choice for my personal car, can I say you're afraid of cars?
Is there something you're not telling us?
I think you hit a nerve w/Zero folks and Zero's become defensive about his sexuality. He brought it up - not you guys. Then again, he's probably used to bringing it up on his own anyway.
meh i can go both ways my friend - no sensitive
Actually you are more accurately a hoplophobe. Full of logical fallacies as well but a good enema may cure that, I recommend puree of habanero usually works with uptight libs who are sure they are smarter than everyone.
Oooh, snap. Love it.
Reminds me of "The Quick and the Dead"; bleating about "not enough coffee" isn't going to slow those vampires down, now is it?
Lets all have a round table discussion about barrel length and bore size - THEN I will get a woody
You've bored me endlessly. You should be proud.
I do believe it's and it's general concensus here that you are incapable of achieving one.
You're great with the lefty labels, I will give you that. You've absorbed and repeat those so well.
You're here why?
I salute you sir for the "great" - I am here as you are here - you blow smoke from your pie hole which you believe as do I - isn't that in your constipation - right to free speech - or maybe thats some other country
No caps lock?
....trolling, trolling, trolling....keep those keyboards rolling....
"Zero" fits perfectly.
Hopefully sarc.
Otherwise you're still a zero.
Sorry...it was just wellin' up inside me.
My rough read on this was to expect at least $29 Ag again very soon, possibly retest July prices, thanks for the heads up on the lease rates.
DCA is the name of the game, but sales are always welcome.
That looks like a charting glitch to me. Is there another source for this data?
Merikas' war economy and its' death and destruction branch is probably the only industry which is totally oblivious to the concept of channel stuffing.
rather be carried by six than judged by 12
Why not be carried by 30?
Why not carry PMag 30's?
I hope you don't hold your gun backwards too.
so you'd rather be dead than defend yourself?
really?
judged by twelve before carried by six ftmfw
im not as think as you drunk i am
You can get a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?
Mr. Brady, Customer: [confused] What?
I am not surprised. What did the Government or the Police do to not only prevent the shooting but to intervene? I goes to show that the Police cannot be there in time to prevent someone getting killed. The only way to protect oneself is to be armed as well.
Interesting on Drudge today was Body Armor for Children. Is that what we have come to? Those Gun Free zones just seem to attract People trying to do the most damage. Both the School and the Movie Theater were Gun free zones.
gun free zone = open season on unarmed humans
way to advertise it
Columbine - the cops stayed outside until the shooting stopped. The kids and adults inside were calling on cell phones begging for help.
No more Lock Down BS. If they hear any shots, pull the fire alarm and everyone runs out of the building. It would have saved lives in Columbine and CT.
As I understand the Police were ORDERED to STAND DOWN until the Swat team came. How many Children did we lose on that order?
When I lived in southern CA - and now in FL - all of the open layout schools mean most of the classrooms have more than one door in/out. Obviously more space to protect -- but during my time in northern MI, it sort of freaked me that the classrooms had one way in, one way out.
Heck, homes require egress -- why not schools? Kids and staff need to be able to escape if possible. That and having certain of the staff be properly trained and armed. One armed officer in a school isn't going to cut it. A shooter will know to get this fella first and after that - he'll have free reign.
Long ago, schools never used to be fenced in....our children are kept in cages.
Our peashooters are no threat to Uncle Sam, regardless of what the sweaty little doomsday preppers hiding in their bunkers think.
The purpose of the pea shooters is to help commandeer uncle scam's toys if he dares to unilaterally attack USA Citizen persons.
Well I guess Obama just wants to take them for shits and giggles then.
If you think China's million-man army is to protect it's borders from invasion, think again. The Chinese govt knows that it is outnumbered and with a strategy and organization, the people could topple the govt in about 2 hours. There is strength in numbers. Same everywhere.
Many military personnel live here.
They are armed.
Our ultimate weapon; divide and conquer the oppressor.
Go fly you ****ing drone and piss off.
Just like dusty AKs, homemade guns and IEDs are no match for the U.S. military. Right . . .
This surge will be assigned to Holiday Sales and will make the economy look better. Thus confirming everyone's belief that Obama's election was a net positive for the country and the world.
<sigh>
God bless us, everyone!
....including little Tiny Tim. Santa brought him a SAW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_automatic_weapon
;-)
Obama will do ANYTHING to grow the economy.
I also think that we have to look at the Drugs we are giving our Children. Are they making them Psycopaths? Plus all of the Shoot em up video games.
Damn, all these killers were also eating vegetables, better ban those too.
Lets see, best selling "shoot-em-up" video game of all time is Call of Duty: Black Ops. Sales to date 13.7 million copies.
Battlefield 3 sales: over 8 million copies, 12 million shipped within one month of launch.
Battlefield 2 sales: 2.2 million copies by July 2006
Halo 3 sales: 8.1 million copies by January 2008
The actual numbers completely ruin your premise even at this simple level of investigation. Wy aren't there hundreds of such incidents each year, or thousands even? After all, at least 13.7 million people are playing the most realistic first person shooter to date. 1000 violent gun incidents would be only 0.0073% of that player base alone.
The incidents of gun violence actually track much better with mental illness but its sooooo much easier for you to scapegoat video games, huh? Solving mental health issues is just not as easy as banning games you don't like. I guess it was much nicer back before Atari when no one ever massacred anyone with guns.....
Add those shot em up games with anit Psycotic Drugs and you have a disaster waiting to happen.
Both of which have been available to the general population for over a decade and yet, where is your proof?
Are you here to argue that 0.0073% or less is statistically significant? I'll enjoy reading that mathematical demonstration.
For the low, low price of only $19.95 (payable in silver eagles) I am offering boat rides to the tragic 'accidental loss of weaponry' location of your choosing.
Row, row, row your weapons gently under the stream, scarily, scarily, scarily, scarily gun control is Obama's wet-dream...
Now I'm wondering who is more twisted, you or O'Barecrack. That was a great play on the words of the song we all learned in kindergarten. +1
But...but...this would suggest that all the media reports I've been hearing that Americans want these weapons banned are false. I just can't make sense of this. Hopefully the TV will tell me what to do.
The first thing I thought when they said they were stopping sales was, 'right, they didn't sell them all, they are 'stopping sales"
Since when has anyone with the hottest product at any given time just stopped selling it?
More likely they are selling them for double the price somewhere less visible.
Them long dead Mayans must be pissing themselfs laughin at this shit. 32 hours to go.
I'd be laughing too if I was a dead guy with a calendar and a sense of humor that carried over a few years.
Fuck it, I'm going to go twist up some BC bud and forget about the dead guys and calendars. Wake me on the 22nd.
De tik ur grnz!!!
"Yes silver is going to sell out but it's because the NRA now believes in Vampires and god knows their members are gonna need all the silver bullets they can get....at Walmart??"
Hey dipshit, silver bullets are for Werewolves, garlic and wooden stakes are for vampires. Got it? Good. Let's hope you pay better attention to your cultural history than you do to the efficacy of popular firearms designs...
So what you are saying is that I need to pick up a crossbow as well..........
I don't know anyone personally, but I have heard a lot of guys are bow shooting so as to silently kill Blue Helmets and then take their guns.
But, I'm sure all Americans will welcome our UN overlords, so I think it's just a rumor.
All you bow hunters... search YouTube for "sling bows". The vids show you how to modify a simple slingshot into a device that uses both arrows and slingshot loads. It's a fraction of the cost of a crossbow and much lighter, more compact, and dual purpose.
I'd love a crossbow...zombies can't hear 'em.
I, for one, don't think massive sales of firearm are a 'problem' being exacerbated. Gun control nuts should, but they are simply too illogical to understand this is working against their interest and prefer to simply chuckle at these news and call Americans 'stupid' and 'fat'.
One thing they don't get is that gun control might decrease the ammount of guns in society, but it also concentrates the remaining of them in the state's gun locker.
What 'til squads of ICE, TSA, BATF, etc. drugged out of their minds on SSRIs start pulling that Newtown shit. Now you'll know what's massacre.
Arrow up for the comment post and the best damn avatar I've ever seen.
Guns are outselling iPads and iPhone 5s. LOL!
F you Libs! F TV and F Hollywood who will disarm you in a heartbneat.
I've been waiting 7 weeks for a C&R permit. Any idea if there's a logjam on these, or is 7 weeks normal?
What state? Ohio? Govt workers doing paperwork. Good luck. FL has been backed up for years and just went over 1 million CCWs.
California. They cashed my check after just a week, so I know they received the application. I heard, on forums, that it should only be a 30 day wait.
My sympathies. Hmmm...CA. You would not work at Mutato Music would you? Never mind - don't answer that. Me and me mates are big fans. Was waiting at the store many years ago for the first album.
I saw on another site about San Bernadino's bankruptcy and CALPERS. I was not aware that CALPERS was charging cities an extra premium for stock/bond losses for 2008. Meanwhile - the pensions are still pegging the benchmark return for pensions at 8+%.
CALPERS is another thing bleeding these cities dry. Total madness.
Wait until the 6 week point (normal processing time) then you might want to politely call in for a status. We were glad we called after 2 months because the person said a deficiency letter was mailed to us two weeks prior (coincidence that neither of us received those letters?). It was just the fingerprints (they changed their mind and asked for ink prints) -- we took the verbal info and ran into the police station....the sherriff said they were told not to do them anymore - they wanted digital. AAARGH...huge runaround. We politely asked them to print us anyway -- and of course that's what the state wanted.
We ended up making 4-5 very polite requests for statuses and the CCW staff was nice enough - even if they had to say it was still pending - they at least could tell us when the application was complete and ready for the approval stamp.
Good luck to you!
PS: Do CA government offices still close down on certain Fridays due to budget issues? That caused huge backlogs in the securities arena (registrations).
FL recently took about 5 months -- mostly administrative issues on their end....they wanted digital fingerprints, then no digital prints, then ink - then due to one or more illegible prints - reprints requested. Each trip for prints was over 40 miles roundtrip but we completed and returned each package within 24-72 hours and still a log jam. It's like we went back to the bottom of the pile each time.
We started to feel that perhaps the state folks were lagging because they didn't want to issue CCWs all of a sudden as others were complaining. But, after those 5 long months - Finally approved and card arrived. We had to celebrate because of all the run-around.
Problem is, these sales are "on paper", so the feds will know where to go when confiscation begins. These purchases should have been made long before now, and off paper. Bet the farm on this: Private sales between individuals will very soon be a thing of the past.
Exactly.
We're going to see white, suburban males going into the inner city to buy guns off the record. The government will not stop purchases, they'll just make them more dangerous, more violent, etc.
Advertise for sale and keep copy of advertisement.
Cash sale to Mr X.
What was his name?
Or just report it stolen.
(I'm joking of course, Big Brother, you fucking creep).
Egypt: Fighting against each other over Morsi.
Syria: Fighting each other over Assad.
USA: Fighting each other over Obamao.
Common theme:
They're all culture wars, the bloodiest type of intercine conflict.
Common theme: Fighting EACH OTHER!
I'm a muppet:
Mis-spelt: Internecine. Balls.
I think Egypt is fighting against tyranny isn't it? Morsi tried some take over shit and they aren't standing for it. Ah, to be a new fresh democracy and actually pay attention and care about what your leaders are doing. If only Americans had half the heart.
America: yeah, pretty much fighting with each other about stupid shit like abortion and gay rights, spending vs taxing, all while the foxes are guarding the henhouse.
Wow,..isn't AmerIca great!
All banning guns does is declare open season on unarmed law-abiding citizens...this scares the hell out of most people, even those first-time, brand-spankin' new, recently acquired a firearm owners!
RE: Secession and other political tom-foolery:
Yah don't need to leave the USA, just the US government!
Stop using their socialist insecurity number - federal reserve notes - banks - courts - politicians - media - schools, etc and use your God-given mind instead.
There's plenty-o-land out there for vittles and critters and space to raise a big happy family, even in major cities of the rust-belt [Just toured Detroit - Toledo - South Bend]
Go and get it . . .
so you barter or produce everything you need? Sounds nice, but did you take all your own food with you on your road trip? I'm not trying to be condescending - it just seems a bit out of reach.
2nd Ammendment
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
4hth ammnetment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".