A Gathering of Morons
By It will surprise no one to learn that Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee was there:
I just dropped by my local pawn shop to get rid of some items around the house that were not longer needed, and found them to be extremely busy.
The high level of traffic in the shop wasn’t all the surprising considering this economy Congressional Democrats engineered, but what was surprising is why people were there.
Other than myself, it doesn’t appear anyone was there to pawn unwanted things.
Of the 12 people in the shop when I was there, the 11 others were all looking at firearms. A CZ-58 and an AK-47 variant were on the counter in front of one pair of customers. An off-duty sheriff and his friend were picking up what I think was a DPMS LR-308 complete with scope and bipod. Another guy was looking at a used Polytech M-14, and the remainder were looking at handguns… mostly Glocks and CZ-75s.
I overheard one of the guys behind the gun counter say that gun sales among the shops in the area were up about 35-percent. Later, when he wasn’t as busy, I asked him why he thought that was. His answer was simple, and perhaps predictable.
“Barack.”
In many respects, I suppose, the scenario is appropriate. Right about this point in the 1860 presidential campaign, someone like Bob Owens would have removed his underwhelming manhood from the hind end of a pig, gathered his friends ’round the mash still, and cracked his knuckles over the looming election of a dangerous radical from Illinois. Though in all fairness to TIDOS Yankee, when antebellum Southern throwbacks described Abraham Lincoln as a “Black” man, they were using a sloppy metaphor. Bob’s pawn shop posse, on the other hand, has to worry about the real thing.