Remember when a certain senator made a "gaffe" by claiming that the right-wing, "get[s] bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy." Could our president have been any more correct or prescient?
So After Obama won, a phenomena swept the land: gunn and ammo sales went through the roof. Here's one report from April:
Guns, ammo sales are on the rise
Guns
Posted: Apr. 21, 2009
Mebane, N.C. — Some gun owners say a fear of tighter gun control has caused a recent surge of gun and ammunition sales.
"People have been stockpiling, buying it by the case instead of the box, so it’s not available," gun owner Richard Poole said.
The demand for ammunition is so high that Mace Sports in Mebane has 2 million rounds on back-order, store owners said. The store has limited the number of boxes of ammunition a person can buy based on caliber and supply.
Mace Sports reported a 100 percent increase in gun sales from this time last year.
At the time I laughed it off as typical insane right-wingers doing what they do best - being paranoid and violent and angry. But then we got the tea parties, and the implied racism and hatred and I'm not too sure the country isn't completely cracking up. These tea party town-hall crashers make Code Pink look quiet and well behaved:
and I don't recall Code Pink or A.N.S.W.E.R waving weapons to intimidate politicians!
All this aside, candidate Obama took a lot of heat for stating the obvious: the right wing is indeed bitter and angry and it's completely obvious that they love their guns - far more than they do the millions of uninsured Americans whom they'd deny health care. In fact a lot of them, are going to the bunkers and screaming that a civil war approaches! And as a final thought, I want to quote the "Swedish Nazi cell Werwolf," from their magazine (it's very offensive).
Let us once and for all state clearly that the primary targets of the national revolution are not refugee camps or individual niggers. Attacks on these are generally a waste of our resources. Attacks must be aimed at newspapers, politicians, journalists and the police/prosecuting authorities. They are the ones who constitute a great but not insurmountable obstacle in our fight for freedom. Far too long have these traitors escaped unpunished, despite their misadministratiori of Sweden, with mass immigration, increasing homosexuality, assaults on minors, giving Sweden away to the EU, etc.
This is from 1992. Idiots like Jonah Goldberg have tried (unsuccessfully) to tie modern liberalism with the Nazis. But tell me, who do the Neo-Nazis sound like? Obama or Beck?