Just back from working the Gun Show. - Democratic Underground

the_acid_one

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Sun Dec-21-03 07:42 PM
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Just back from working the Gun Show.

Well, I just got back from working a Gun show in Nashville, TN. I was helping out at the "Friends of the NRA" table, selling raffle tickets to win a .50 BMG Barret rifle.

While I was there, I noticed several disturbing things. Disturbing things indeed.....

First off, was the blatant atmosphere of niceness. Dealers were polite, customers were polite, pretty much everyone knew everyone, and everyone had a good time. There was such a spirit of fellowship all throughout the center, that it should be illegal to be that nice to strangers.

Secondly, being that I had been informed that gun shows were rife with anti-government hate monger types, and every other booth peddles nazi or KKK pamphlets or memorabilia, I was disgusted to find that not a single booth had any kind of KKK endorsed Hate Literature. Or even so much as a Nazi arm-band, there wasnt even a picture of Adolf Hitler anywhere to be found. As you can imagine, i was quite surprised.

Thirdly, every dealer there had the gall to not only request, but demand that prospective buyers fill out all kinds of legal forms and undergo background checks. I had been led to believe that I could buy a machine gun or bazooka without paperwork. Obviously the anti-gun crowd has led me astray yet again.

Forthly, there were BLACK people there. Imagine my horror, when I realized that not only was there not a single Ku Klux Klan member protesting this obvious breach of security, but, in fact, the intruders were being treated courteously like everyone else.

Fifth, I met the director of the Local Second Ammendment Sisters chapter. Much to my chargain, rather then breathing fire and screaming vulgarities as anti-gunner wisdom had led me to expect, she was actually nice. She even had the audacity to politely request that I come to one of their local events, or even join them.

I did find out that the SAS are planning to have a small rally in Mothers Day in Washington DC. No doubt, their intentions are to gun down MMM members in cold blood. Or maybe just exercise their First Ammendmant rights to protect their Second Ammendment rights. I for one, will be there to protest their presense, as the First Ammendmant is obviously for members of government funded press members only.

I was also disappointed when the director did not lecture me on the evils of white women dating black men, or even encourage me to write threatening letters to famous black men. I had surely expected this to happen after a paticularly long "Guns In the News" thread informed me of the evils of the Second Ammendment Sisters and their tendency to spread fear and hatred wherever they go by mailing death threats.

Unfortunettly the anti's who told me this could not produce evidence to support it. But they assured me that they were right anyways so I didnt have to worry about proof.

Sixth, I'm sure my fellow DU'ers will be disgusted to hear that a multitude of assault weapons were on display, racks and racks of baby killing guns scattered all throughout the room. Along with literally thousands of ultra-mega-high-capacity ammunition cop-killer bullet-spraying clip-stocks. For anyone to purchase.

Fear not, however, as no real assault weapons were sold despite their presence. As the authors of the 1994 ban had the foresight to make sure that post-ban versions are available at a fraction of the cost, and in fact are hot sellers.

However, due to an unfortunette loophole in the otherwise well thought out ban, you can buy assault weapon conversion kits at almost any gun-show that will turn your Post-Ban Friendship Rifle into a real assault weapon.

In fact, I saw several of these kits on display, they consisted of of duct-tape and a ginsu knife. Hopefully, the new ban will have the foresight to make it illegal to possess a rifle, duct tape, and kitchen knives at the same time to prevent these kinds of conversions from happening.

And finally, Despite the presence of hundreds of assault weapons, thousands of high capacity magazines, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, not one single murder took place. I, as so many others, took this as proof that guns undoubtedly cause crime.

Imagine my shock at finding that in a room with 50 guns or more for every man woman and child present, not one shot was fired in anger. Obviously, this kind of safety is unacceptable. This is in sharp contrast to Washington DC, where guns are wisely banned, and the resulting murder rate is much more acceptable then at your average gun show.

Unfortunettly, I had to leave before the end of the show, but I'm sure that had I stayed till the end, there undoubtedly would have been a class on how to shoot passenger jets right out of the sky with your .50 BMG rifle. The anti's assure me that it is possible.