According to the AP, the rightwing has lost their collective minds over Obama’s victory and are now stocking up on guns out of fear the President-Elect is going to single-handedly rollback the second amendment. Constitutional obstacles and Obama’s repeated assurances aside, the little sense wingnuts might have has yielded to their default state—the mob.
"Gun sales doubled Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week, and we've sold out of a lot of the guns we normally have in stock," said Jim King, sporting goods manager at Thatcher's Ace Hardware in Baker City, which still retains a tinge of its Wild West boomtown origins.
People are afraid of losing their Second Amendment gun rights, King said, although that would involve a lengthy and improbable attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Most of the weapon purchases have been for assault rifles, which Obama has stated a desire to ban permanently. This aspect of the spike in wingnut activity is cause for alarm, especially given their historic propensity for loose-cannonism. Though they take comfort from owning a firearm specifically designed to kill humans, their increasingly armed presence make leaves more civilized folks feeling less safe. Here’s one frightening anecdote:
"We called one warehouse that went through 4,000 assault rifles in four days. One warehouse we called had 21 assault rifles when they opened for business on Monday, and within 30 seconds they were gone," King said.
"We are on waiting lists now to get more of these (Colt AR-15s). People are coming in and paying for them up front," King said.
The gun rush began with Obama's nomination and crested with his election, retailers say.
The natural progression here is for these people to start freaking out over other manufactured issues. Next up:
- Stockpiling bibles for when Obama makes Islam the national religion
- Burying their money in secret hidin' spots for when Obama starts spreading the wealth
- Hoarding bowling bowls, for when Obama single-handedly amends the constitution to ban these
- Booking vacations to D.C. before the Obamas paint the Whitehouse a new color
- Pulling their kids out of school en masse before Obama makes learnin' mandatory