28-02-2009, 12:09 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Allegedly the biggest queues in the US of A are currently for guns. Here's some anecdotal stuff from Ticker Forum - purely anecdotal, ya understand:
Quote:1) Got my concealed weapons permit renewed yesterday. There was a 4+ hour wait to get fingerprinted. The two women at the Probate Court said they went from doing 20 a month to over 1000 a month (Fulton County) in the past year.
2) My mom wanted to buy a small revolver this weekend. We couldn't find one even close to what she wanted (steel frame snubnose). We decided she would buy me a gun of equal value and she could take my 7-shot .357 snubnose and my whole stash of ammo and speedloaders.
3) The range is always packed. Average wait on the weekend for a lane is 1-2 hours. Most ranges are booked up as soon as they open since people are waiting at the door. My local range went from doing less than $700 in receipts some weeknights (including all sales and range fees) to averaging about ten times that on weeknights, and doing north of $25k each weekend. They've got 6-7 people working a store the size of my apartment and they are all busy, busy, busy.
4) Can't find ammo. Last year it was expensive to replace. In some calibers and loadings you can't replace it at any price.
5) The biggest online distributors of guns are sold out of nearly every model. The only models in stock are hunting weapons or target weapons. Most guns that can be concealed and formerly abundant pump-action shotguns and semi-automatic rifles are missing from the supply chain. You can find a few in stores but at insane prices . . . but I guess those are the prices now.
No wonder California wants to legalize pot and get everyone chilled...
Well yes, loadsa people forsee the complete breakdown in society because of the collapse of the banking system that they believe will eventually leading to rampaging hordes, food shortages, fuel shortages, no utilities and no effective policing or state control.
In such a scenario you plan to take care of yourself because the state no longer amounts to much at all.
I imagine that would be the thinking anyway...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14