The run on guns

Nightline had a feature Friday night on a huge run on gun stores throughout the country. It seems that people are buying up guns out of fear that Obama and the Democratic Congress may pass national gun control laws. But a professor at New York University said it’s extremely unlikely that Obama would set off such a controversial issue in his first term, especially given the Supreme Court’s historic decision earlier this year supporting individual gun ownership under the Second Amendment.

However, I must say that when I saw all that gun-buying portrayed in the program, my first, seditious thought was not that it was about anticipating Obama-Democratic gun control laws, but that it was about planning to resist an Obama-Democratic expansion of federal power.

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Alex K. writes:

You wrote:

“my first, seditious thought was not that it was about anticipating Obama-Democratic gun control laws, but that it was about planning to resist a Obama-Democratic expansion of federal power.”

My first thought was that it was about planning extra self-protection for an anarchic crime-ridden liberal-ruled America. But hey, why can’t it be all the above?

LA replies:

Actually your first thought was mine as well; I had forgotten about it. My second thought was about resistance to government power.

QR writes:

I saw a blog post about that.

Even before I saw that post, on election day I had decided to finally, after putting it off for years, buy myself a gun. Not just because I’m worried about what laws might get passed, but to defend myself from the persons of color who believe they are no longer oppressed. I’ll have one before the Anointed One takes office.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 10, 2008 10:30 AM | Send