Thank you, preppers, hoarders, and stockpilers.

BigBlue

I saw this on another site and have the authors permission to reprint. I thought it worthwhile.

Thank you, preppers, hoarders, and stockpilers.

Let's step back from the counter for a minute and think about this.

Recent news is that 0bama is floating the idea that an assault weapons ban is unworkable. Let's approach that with reasonable caution, but if it is so, to all you preppers, hoarders, and stockpilers, I send my thanks.

True, you have been reviled at Walmarts and gun stores across the country as empty shelves greeted shooters wanting to 'just pick up a couple of boxes'.

I think I've seen some of you, carrying boxes which seemed unreasonably heavy for their size, leaving Walmart through the automotive doors because it's a shorter carry and less likely to be seen.

I've heard you slammed on several threads and boards as the prices of lowers, magazines, accessories, uppers, stocks, etc., etc., etc., soared in response to the lurch of the demand curve. Whether a matter of speculation, expecting to turn a profit later, or a matter of prudence, laying in a supply in anticipation of coming restrictions, you did what you could to shift weapons and ammo from the warehouses to your lockers.

But thank you for your efforts.

In doing so, you put your money where your mouth was. You voted with your wallet. You sent a clear signal to anti-Constitutionalists that the right to keep and bear arms was more than an abstraction, and the surge in firearms-related transactions could not have gone unnoticed by the policymakers in D.C. It had to have given them pause to realize that hundreds of thousands of people were willing to go as far as they had to to ensure their rights were secure, and the administration had to recognize that their actions had caused them to lose track of uncountable numbers of weapons.

Thank you.