About a year ago, when I woke up, I realized I was going to need protection. I attended my first gun show and my take away was nothing less that shocking.
We got there 1 hour early to avoid a line. By the time we got there the line was wrapped around the building, queued up in warehouse next to the building and them queued up in the parking lot. It was hard to discern the end of the line. 1 hour early!
When we walked in there had to be hundreds of people already in the space. It was shoulder to shoulder the whole time we were their. It was almost impossible to shop.
The dealers were not even able to keep up with the crowds. It took an hour for our sale just to be processed in the backlog of sales.
On a side note, it was nice that they had a "Professional Chef" table there too. I was able to pick up a dry measuring cup I had been looking for. These shows need to have a few more tables for the ladies.
My point to all this is that this was one show in one city. If this is being repeated all over this country, I can only think that the number of gun owners has risen exponentially and number of guns owned must be astronomical.
I am a little old lady and my little old lady friends all bought guns that day. Some of us are on our 2nd purchases. One needs to recognize that if little old ladies like us are buying guns, shit has gotten REAL serious.
Just to point out, back i. World War II, a Japanese Admiral said they could never do an invasion on mainland U.S. "Theyre would be a gun behind every blade of grass"
The U.S. is one of 3 countries in the world where the right to bear arms is in the Constitution, one of the other two is Mexico. Please cherish the right and exercise it or else we will lose it. "If we lose freedom here, there is nowhere left to escape to."
I worded my comment poorly. Gun rights are guaranteed by constitutions in 3 countries, U.S., Mexico, and Guatemala. There are othere countries that allow private firearm ownership, but its not in their constitution.:
I live in a large city in Texas.
About a year ago, when I woke up, I realized I was going to need protection. I attended my first gun show and my take away was nothing less that shocking.
We got there 1 hour early to avoid a line. By the time we got there the line was wrapped around the building, queued up in warehouse next to the building and them queued up in the parking lot. It was hard to discern the end of the line. 1 hour early!
When we walked in there had to be hundreds of people already in the space. It was shoulder to shoulder the whole time we were their. It was almost impossible to shop.
The dealers were not even able to keep up with the crowds. It took an hour for our sale just to be processed in the backlog of sales.
On a side note, it was nice that they had a "Professional Chef" table there too. I was able to pick up a dry measuring cup I had been looking for. These shows need to have a few more tables for the ladies.
My point to all this is that this was one show in one city. If this is being repeated all over this country, I can only think that the number of gun owners has risen exponentially and number of guns owned must be astronomical.
I am a little old lady and my little old lady friends all bought guns that day. Some of us are on our 2nd purchases. One needs to recognize that if little old ladies like us are buying guns, shit has gotten REAL serious.
All I can say is well done for protecting yourself...Wish we had the same easy options here...
Just to point out, back i. World War II, a Japanese Admiral said they could never do an invasion on mainland U.S. "Theyre would be a gun behind every blade of grass"
The U.S. is one of 3 countries in the world where the right to bear arms is in the Constitution, one of the other two is Mexico. Please cherish the right and exercise it or else we will lose it. "If we lose freedom here, there is nowhere left to escape to."
I am intrigued. What is the third country?
I worded my comment poorly. Gun rights are guaranteed by constitutions in 3 countries, U.S., Mexico, and Guatemala. There are othere countries that allow private firearm ownership, but its not in their constitution.:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
I could swear Wiki had some editing of their pages relating to this because i had to dig to refind the info I found before and it took longer.
They have gotten a lot better since then,more inventory not as crowded.