On the front page of today’s Abq Journal is a picture of a man buying an AK-47. He is spending nearly $1,000 on this weapon of mass destruction, this machine that exists solely to destroy things as quickly and completely as possible. Saddest of all, he is identified as a teacher. Of what — fear?
If you hate guns and have money to burn, I suggest you go to the local gun shop and buy a machine gun. Tell them money is no object. This will accomplish three things:
(1) the sacred market will drive the price so high that gun-nuts will bankrupt themselves — it’s working for bin Laden;
(2) news that more people are arming themselves may just raise the gun-nuts’ stress level high enough to cause a stroke;
(3) you’ll be armed for the Rapture. (This one truly puzzles me: In the Rapture, righteous people ascend immediately to heaven, no? So is this gun buyer confessing he is not righteous and will be stuck on earth with the rest of us?)
I truly believe you have the right to live your own way. If you have money to piss away on things I have no use for, go for it. But if you live in a state of fear that drives you to arm yourself with a FUCKING MACHINE GUN, you have no quality of life whatsoever. I pity the people around you. peace, mjh
ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Run on Guns
By Leslie Linthicum
Journal Staff Writer
Dan Hutchison went in a different direction.He drove directly to an Albuquerque gun store, pointed to a dull black Israeli-made AK-47 rifle and slapped his driver’s license on the counter for a background check.
"I’m disappointed," Hutchison said. "This country is going down the tubes in a hurry." He forked over $829.95 and added, "It’s time for the Rapture." …
Valerie Jackson at Charlie’s Sporting Goods in the Northeast Heights has been selling loads of handguns to people worried about a looming ban.
When I talked to her last week, the presidency still hung in the balance and she laid out her version of an Obama administration like this: "If Obama is elected, you’ll be out of business and so will I, because he’s going to take away the 1st Amendment and the 2nd Amendment and then he’s going to go after our religion."
PS: Hats off to the self-serving gun sellers whose pronouncements drive sales higher. Perhaps a few of your customers will eventually realize that selling guns is no different than selling drugs, tobacco, or alcohol: All depend on people so addicted they can’t see straight anymore. Customers so desperate they’ll spend any amount for more product, even if it kills them. It’s a corporate wet-dream.
PPS: Let me state again: Gun owners are safe from powerless bloggers like me. No need to get ugly. We’re all up to our necks in guns; you can’t get any safer, so stop worrying. Oh, but you can’t stop, can you? Pity.
Fear of guns really doesn’t serve
anything MJH. Rabid right wingers who are freaking out and buying guns because they think Obama is going to ban guns and freedom of
speech and rainbows and whatever are irrational but I think we’re to the point as a society now when we can admit that the legality of
guns has essentially nothing to do with gun crime – even Bowling for Columbine showed that.
Also, AK-47’s aren’t machine guns
and aren’t even fully automatic if bought legally. It is possible (but illegal) to convert them to be fully automatic. I say all this
as someone who’s never owned a gun and probably never will, but I am supportive of the 2nd amendment.
If you look at the data the
percentage of gun violence committed with legally purchased and licensed guns is vanishingly small (less than 1%).
I like the new
bolding effect for highlighting btw.