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Old 12-14-2012, 07:41 PM
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Default Re: Another Mass Shooting

I was at a gun store today. I hunt and target shoot small caliber stuff. I've been looking for a .22 caliber rifle for shooting tagets.

While there, a sales guy was helping out someone looking for a handgun. They were discussing stopping power, home defense, if the US collapses/SHTF prepper stuff. The sales guy ended up recommending and talking the guy into buying a 9mm with 1000 rounds of ammunition. You have to buy lots of ammunition because the price will go up in January once Obama is sworn in again. Plus, 9mm ammunition is used by lots of police, military, and private citizens. Which means it will be easier to find after the pending apocolypse (or has he put it "worst case scenario, if you know what I mean").

I was all like WTF! There is a large and growing number of scared shitless people in this country. I almost told the guy if he finds the need to defend the homefront use a 12 gauge shotgun with rabbit/squirrel load. It probably won't penetrate the walls and hurt other people if you miss. If it's a 3 shot pump, load a deer slug in last if needed. A .69 caliber slug is a metric buttload of stopping power.

I don't see reasonable gun control in this country until our next civil war breaks out and these guys all get killed off with the rest of us. If we can stomach 20,000+ killings, 20,000+ suicides, 1,000+ military dying each year this way, it will take 1,000,000+/year to snap us out of it. Like WWII did to Europe.

I didn't buy a .22lr as the store has jacked up pricing and is staffed by people using fear of death as a selling tool. Might stick to pellet guns for plinking targets. I have some almost as powerful as a little .22, but they are slower and a pain to load.
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