praise the lord, and pass the ammunition

[martasfic]

Originally published at Faith Seeking Understanding. You can comment here or there.

Apparently Walmart has announced a new policy, limiting customers to three boxes of ammunition per day. This isn’t a government thing or a political statement, but simply the free market at work. They couldn’t keep ammo in stock.

Think about that a minute. According to the Walmart.com website, gun ammo is usually sold in boxes of fifty shots. Some people thought that having the ability to shoot a gun 150 times wasn’t enough, that they needed more. And not just a few – enough people that they had to put together a policy.

I try to avoid swearing here, but on this topic I can’t quite help it. This is Absolutely. Bat-Shit. Insane.

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Thinking about it for quite a while

[phyloxena.livejournal.com]

Target practice requires a lot of ammo. 150 rounds of small caliber isn't even funny. It is relatively easy to stop production or ban some product compared to expropriating already possessed. It is very, very expensive to go after somebody quietly armed in his little house in the prairie, nukes (prohibitively expensive) or not - and this consideration really reflects on policy. I grew up in a place there going after people at night would only cost big brother some overtime. Also, in a place there people would stockpile salami and buckwheat, like these poor ridiculed Walmart patrons stockpiling ammo before it goes illegal. I like it better here. So far.

Re: Thinking about it for quite a while

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

I see two points in your comment, one of which I think is quite reasonable: that target-practice takes a lot of ammunition. And if I thought that was all that was going on here, I'd be much more tolerant of it. But the discussions I've seen about why it is so important to acquire ammunition right now suggest this isn't the real concern. Or at least not the other one. And it's that other concern that has me so worried.

You say it yourselves: people are arming themselves on the assumption that the government is going to come to their house and engage them in a firefight. That mindset just seems more driven by fear than the situation really warrants. It also makes me wonder, if you are so fearful of the government, why you should trust me enough to work with me. This mindset just seems defensive to me, as a way of checking out of fixing our common problems in a drive to protect yourself. And from my position, things simply don't seem that desperate yet.