Political Winds
November 25th, 2006 by Syd
Gun Sales:
A large gun retailer in our area tells me that he has seen a significant and sustained spike in the sale of pistols, military rifles, magazines, police shotguns, and ammunition in the wake of this month’s mid-term elections. Some buyers are existing gun owners, but many report they are buying guns for the first time, “while we still can!” It seems Democratic election victories make a lot of people nervous about the continued legality of the private ownership of guns in this Country!
One hot seller is the Springfield Armory XD in 45ACP. There is no doubting that Americans like forty-five caliber pistols, and the XD is a high-capacity gun, much slimmer than the G21, that works just fine and is reasonably priced. Of course, SA has been advertising the product heavily, and I’m sure that has contributed to brisk sales also.
This, of course, all comes as good news to the gun industry, at least temporarily. However, the Industry, along with the NRA, is, even now, planning on spending heavily in an effort to stifle a host of new, burdensome anti-gun, anti-gun-owner, and anti-gun-retailer laws and harassing bureaucratic regulation that is now bound to emanate from Democratic party leadership. Individual Democratic legislators, even when personally opposed, will be hard pressed to resist pressure from the DNC on this issue. Indeed, many Republican legislators will predictably climb on an anti-gun bandwagon too, when they detect political winds blowing in that direction.
The good news is that most Americans are not nearly as gullible as they used to be! We still remember post-Katrina events in New Orleans and surrounding area. In fact, on that very theme, local politicians are now telling (with a straight face) metro-area residents they will be on their own after the next disaster, perhaps for weeks, even months. Interesting that Americans are admonished to have a personal supply of food, water, first-aid supplies, communications gear, fuel, transportation, etc… everything one might expect, except guns and ammunition! Those last two items are never mentioned on any list. Such an omission is illogical, inconceivable, inexcusable, and, sadly, predicable, when it comes from the mouths of typical, paranoid gasbags who are far more worried about themselves than they will ever be about the welfare of citizens.
We are told to expect neither protection nor assistance from the government at any level, yet in the same breath we are told we needn’t take any measures to protect ourselves. This glaring contradiction is, of course, deliberately ignored by the media. Indeed, it is on the media’s “unmentionable” list. Armed citizens obviously make them nervous too!.
As always, the sage is alert, aware, and prepared. Naive flower-children never will be!
/John Farnam
Defense Training International, Inc.