Received this "note" from a friend. Looks like the hate and fear is

[madmom]

gearing up already

[The Straight Story]

1. See, Obama is good for business :) (nt)

[RKP5637]

2. I'm convinced about 50% of this county is insane anymore. n/t

[Justice wanted]

11. you are hopeful. I was thinking more like 65%.

[RKP5637]

12. Yep, I think your estimate is more realistic at 65%. n/t

[JHB]

3. Translation: You bought it (and bought from us) before, so do it again

"He didn't grab your guns last time, but you'll forget that and fall for the same sales pitch again!"

[Arugula Latte]

4. Maybe I'm dense but I don't get this ...

How does hate/fear and product shortages and election years all connect?

On edit, I didn't know Graf & Sons was a gun maker. To say I am not at all a gun person is a huge understatement.

[Chorophyll]

6. "People are buyin' guns faster than we can stock 'em!"

"Because President Foreign Guy is coming to take them away!"

In all seriousness, it took me a few minutes, too. A little bit of context was needed.

On edit: never mind.

[sharp_stick]

5. The firearms industry and NRA

actually love Obama. He's their best spokesman and he doesn't even have to do anything about it.

The morons that go out and buy everything that Wayne LaPierre tells them to really think that Obama is all about gun grabbing. Ask them to provide an example of this terror in the White House and they'll hemm and haww for awhile, maybe provide a few conspiracy theories then slink away like the idiots they are.

These assholes are the best kind of customers anyone could ever want, they'll do whatever you tell them to do and then line up and do it again next time.

[EC]

8. I work with one and told him

that a slick salesman saw him coming a mile away. Rather he was a sucker.

[frylock]

13. my favorite conspiracy theory is that obama is limiting the production of ammo..

no, asshole, ammo is in shortage because you and your idiot compatriots are hoarding it!

[sharp_stick]

15. There was a fire in town here

where some moron was hoarding enough ammo in the basement that the fire department refused to do more than spray water on it and they had to evacuate his neighbors.

It was perfectly legal but the police were astounded by the arsenal this tool was building up in expectation of an imminent doomsday.

[Ikonoklast]

17. At the last gun show I attended, there was more than one guy pulling a wagon and filling it

ammunition.

One fine fellow was aghast when he was limited to 10,000 rounds of .223 to a customer, he wanted to purchase every round the seller had.

Now this guy could have spent that money on some much needed dental work, as his teeth were not much more than blackened stumps (I know, I know, it's his money, and his teeth), but he was dead certain that firearms were not going to be banned by Obama in his second term, but ammunition would be.

[gratuitous]

7. Shrewd marketing

Whether they're experiencing shortages or not, they are probably familiar enough with their clientele to know that this is a sure-fire (npi) method for boosting sales.

[Jester Messiah]

9. The moral I take from the story:

Don't let the freepers be the only ones with guns. You don't want to be unarmed when the hatred, ignorance, and stupidity boil over.

[truebrit71]

10. And that, folks, is the correct answer...

....

[Mojorabbit]

21. Yep. nt

[jillan]

14. The republican in my life told me he was buying another gun because it looks like Obama will win &..

he may need to start hunting for food!!!!!



I swear on my life that this was a true conversation.

[monmouth]

16. I don't doubt you for a moment. I live in Floriduh...n/t

[safeinOhio]

18. New gun store in my town.

Big sign on building says "God Country and Guns" I kid you not.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

19. demonstrably stupid people

Even though Obama hasn't made a single move where guns are concerned, even though it's been a dead issue for several years with the Democratic Party, stupid fuckwit gun worshipers automatically assume they'll need to stock up on .50 cal squirrel bullets 'fore the gubmint comes to take them away. I no longer care enough to pretend that gun fetishists deserve a place at the grownups' table. They do not; they're aberrant, and I'll treat them like the idiots they are.

[RC]

20. Where are the local defenders of this non-sense? (no sense, none sense)