(Parenthetical personal note: I remember my grandmother's second husband saying the same thing when I was a boy. He wasn't into guns, but he went out and bought a new 1965 Buick that he couldn't afford because after the government crash, we wouldn't be able to get good new cars. He also buried $2500 in Silver Certificate dollar bills because the Federal Reserve Notes would be worthless. Alas, the ground behind his Pennsylvania Avenue, Mansfield, house was pretty soggy so he ended up with some very expensive compost.)Anyhow, this "stock up on guns" comment raises two very important questions: who will we have to shoot, and how many of them will we have to shoot?
There are exactly two possibilities. Either the government will crash or it won't.
If the government doesn't crash, presumably we'll be shooting government agents, either police or military, or perhaps both. These are the totally evil people who stole the country from us by the unfair strategy of getting more votes, so the "real" Americans (uneducated white men) aren't running things any more. There is one main problem with getting into a shootout with the government. They always win. It's pretty much impossible for one person to have enough ammunition to shoot and kill absolutely every police officer and military person the government can throw at you. And they aren't going to negotiate a truce after you've killed a couple of cops. They will keep coming because they have the funny idea that the point of having laws is to protect the majority of the country from people like you.
If the government does crash, apparently we'll be shooting our neighbors, who all want the drinking water and Power Bars we have hoarded. Maybe you'll be able to kill all the pathetic begging children and the little old ladies knocking at the door, but eventually the same scenario occurs. If everyone has guns to attempt to steal all of your Power Bars, you just don't have enough ammunition to kill them all. Though I suppose that after you've done away with a few hundred, the pile of bodies around your home will be sort of a barricade and a warning. Anyhow, there you'll sit, drinking your stored water and eating your Power Bars and wondering, "Now what?"
And that brings me around to the Christmas part of all this. Isn't it kind of odd that the right-wing Christian extremists who want us to buy guns to defend ourselves and our possessions claim to follow the Prince of Peace, the one who wanted us to share our possessions with the poor?
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