Fox News in Houston reports that according to a gun store owner there, his clientele are purchasing guns and ammo because of President Barack Obama and the pending Doomsday (not!).
The gun meister said that in 2009 gun owners and wantta-be gun owners were buying guns and ammo in record numbers because they were terrified that Obama was going to ban gun sales.
That’s a common paranoid fantasy among the white right-wing who have not and apparently cannot accept a BLACK man in their precious WHITE house. First of all, ban gun sales? Are they truly that stupid? One of my relatives, a hardcore Republican, pointed out to me recently that some of these paranoids have this notion that the president wields powers far beyond those of mortal men or granted by the Constitution. Just consider the gnashing of teeth and the sobbing – not to mention the outright lawlessness – that banning guns would elicit!
It’s a stupid, stupid fantasy perpetrated by stupid, stupid people. And what do we say about stupid? Ya can’t fix it! Stupid is stupid.
“If he wins the election, he's got nothing to lose, so a lot of people think he's going to go after guns if he gets a second term,” the gun store owner said, further perpetrating the stupid, stupid paranoid fantasy and, no doubt, secretly peeing his pants thinking about all the additional guns and ammo he’ll be selling between 2013 and 2016.
And, to be sure, gun sales have skyrocketed if one of America’s largest gun makers is any indication. Sturm and Ruger has stopped taking new orders. With all the doomsday talk and the asinine Mayan Calendar prophesy (not!) and a BLACK man in the WHITE House to stir the paranoia pot, the company received orders for more than a million guns in just the first quarter of this year.
Shouldn’t we all feel safer knowing that dumbass paranoids and racists are fully armed, locked and loaded and ready to fight off all the delusional Doomsday demons and despots on our behalf?
Yeah, I don’t feel any safer either.
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