What with panic of 2012-13 in full swing following the panic of 2008 I thought I would share a story told to me by the owner of a gun shop where I did business. In 1965 he was a clerk working in a gun shop in the Los Angeles area of California.
When the Watts Riots broke out, he said every white, upper class liberal in the county was lined up at the counter wanting to buy a gun. None of these people had ever even held a gun before. Most were staunch supporters of disarmament. But when the fecal matter hit the circulating cooling device there they were, demanding a firearm for self protection.
At that time CA had a 3 day waiting period on handgun transfers. These folks wanted a gun NOW so they passed on the pistols and bought whatever rifle or shotgun the clerk handed them. They each wanted one box of ammo for the gun they were buying.
The store owner cleared out every new gun on the shelf... every used gun, too. All the dogs that nobody wanted were passed over the counter to grasping hands, anxious to hold a weapon. These buyers didn't ask for a particular gun nor did they ask what they were being handed. They took whatever firearm was offered and paid the bill. Within a couple hours the racks were empty with nothing left to sell.
Of course, we know the story. The rioting never did spill into the upscale neighborhoods as the maniacs confined their burning and looting mayhem to their own business areas, thus ensuring that nobody would ever want to open a shop or store there, again.
About six months after the riots ended, the guns started coming back to the shop. Within a year or so nearly all had been returned and sold back to the shop owner for 25% of the initial purchase price. I'm sure that once the evil guns were out of their homes they went back to donating money to the gun control groups and advocating for an end to the Second Amendment as unnecessary in today's world.
Elitist cretins.
When the Watts Riots broke out, he said every white, upper class liberal in the county was lined up at the counter wanting to buy a gun. None of these people had ever even held a gun before. Most were staunch supporters of disarmament. But when the fecal matter hit the circulating cooling device there they were, demanding a firearm for self protection.
At that time CA had a 3 day waiting period on handgun transfers. These folks wanted a gun NOW so they passed on the pistols and bought whatever rifle or shotgun the clerk handed them. They each wanted one box of ammo for the gun they were buying.
The store owner cleared out every new gun on the shelf... every used gun, too. All the dogs that nobody wanted were passed over the counter to grasping hands, anxious to hold a weapon. These buyers didn't ask for a particular gun nor did they ask what they were being handed. They took whatever firearm was offered and paid the bill. Within a couple hours the racks were empty with nothing left to sell.
Of course, we know the story. The rioting never did spill into the upscale neighborhoods as the maniacs confined their burning and looting mayhem to their own business areas, thus ensuring that nobody would ever want to open a shop or store there, again.
About six months after the riots ended, the guns started coming back to the shop. Within a year or so nearly all had been returned and sold back to the shop owner for 25% of the initial purchase price. I'm sure that once the evil guns were out of their homes they went back to donating money to the gun control groups and advocating for an end to the Second Amendment as unnecessary in today's world.
Elitist cretins.