[Billthedrill]

It amuses me a little that anyone with Washington Cease Fire should call concern over gun control efforts "paranoia" when he is pursuing them to the very limit of his ability. Nevertheless, despite its well-deserved liberal reputation, even King County is not altogether receptive to gun grabber blatherings. Anyone in doubt can Google an initiative named I-676 and what happened to it when the despised common people were actually allowed to vote on it.

I've shot at Wade's, incidentally, was a member for years, and it's an awesome range.

There is, no doubt, an element of apprehension behind the spike in gun sales, and it's thoroughly justified. Nevertheless, an even stronger element is the simple truth that people like guns, and you will seldom hear this simple truth in the popular media. Gun sales are spiking because people like guns, and not out of mental pathology. Not out of fear, paranoia, hatred, aggression, compensation for some perceived inadequacy, but because they're empowering and a lot of fun.

[kearnyirish2]

“Gun sales are spiking because people like guns, and not out of mental pathology.”

Here behind enemy lines in the northeast I’d suspect that some gun sales are related to the fact that we’ve laid off thousands of cops (the teachers just have a stronger union); we’re left with smaller, middle-aged police forces that are smart enough to know that it is a de facto crime to enforce laws where minorities are perps, so they “de-police” (file traffic accident reports instead of enforcing the law).