News that since Barack Obama became president-elect, gun store owners nationwide have experienced strong sales proves once again that nothing sells like fear. Particularly fear that's been marketed by the NRA and sold by the caseload to the receptive minds of bigots and paranoiacs. A local gun dealer boasted last week: "Obama is the best gun salesman we've had in 50 years."
If the NRA types were only worried that a Democratic congress might renew the so-called "assault weapons" ban, would gun stores find themselves so mobbed? No. Sadly, the genetic heritage of the next POTUS is probably THE factor here. This is the "Post-racial" America we've been told about?
About Me
- ~Bill
- U. of I. Illini fan, reformed rugger, dad, Vietnam vet and unrepentant humanist, I teach high school social studies by day and watch, listen and read about current events by night. My "especiallity" is the Cold War, since I lived it.
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