Obama's Gun Control Legislation

Guy I work with was going to try to buy an assault rifle this week. Figured it would be his last chance.

I asked him why he needs it.

He said, "Because I can." But everywhere he looked was sold out. The ones for sale from private parties are double their market value.

NoCoPilot wrote:

The ones for sale from private parties are double their market value.

Bullets are more than triple.

How come the newest post is at the top?
Totally fucks me up.

Lisa wrote:

How come the newest post is at the top?
Totally fucks me up.

Only does that on my iPhone. Mobile skin is pretty cool actually -- but it's read-only

Lisa wrote:

How come the newest post is at the top?
Totally fucks me up.

That's odd, it's not for me.

Either Lisa has her monitor upside down again or someone fixed it.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Guy I work with was going to try to buy an assault rifle this week. Figured it would be his last chance.

I asked him why he needs it.

He said, "Because I can." But everywhere he looked was sold out. The ones for sale from private parties are double their market value.

That makes no sense to me whatsoever. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should and why do it at the height of its cost?

I have never been able to come up with a rational reason for people owning common guns which they don't need - or even feel they have a need for.

I had a cousin who collected guns for many years. But he bought old guns; guns with historical value. He loved making a trade and getting the best end of the deal. He would come home grinning and giggling like a little girl (and this was a guy whose very presence scared the hell out of the men who worked for him. He was a Navy lifer and the Gun Boss on a heavy cruiser firing 10-inch guns). He had a Federal Firearms License and would only sell to others who had a license. Some of the guns he had were really beautiful with gold plate, engraving, etc., and others were very strange. By the time he died, I imagine his collection was worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now, that kind of gun collector I can understand. What I don't get is the clown that buys a closetful of cheap-ass or common pistols and rifles that have no value whatsoever, except what he can sell them for to another clown, and he calls himself a collecter. There's a difference betwen a collection and a cache.

And, yes, I understand that there may be times when a person feels a need to carry a gun. I'm not talking about the second-amendment argument. I'm not talking about whether or not you feel you have a right to carry a gun. I mean an immediate and specific reason. That can even happen to someone who favors strict gun control. In the very early seventies, I found myself caught in the middle of a very nasty situation (not of my making - it was like a bad cop show on TV) and I carried a concealed revolver (a Smith and Wesson .38 special) for a couple of years. And it was carried illegally; no license. When I no longer felt a need for it, I sold it.

But to just go out and buy a damned assault rifle, just because the other big boys have one - is childish. If these macho men really want to play soldier, then they should join the military. If they want to play cops and robbers, then they should join the police force, or take up a life of crime. But they should knock of the insipid "Protecting my freedom" bullshit. It's nonsense.

Why couldn't he have come home giggling like a little boy?

I often wondered that myself.