I know some of you folks
don't shoot, but to the many of you who do, I would like to pose a
question.
Have you tried to
purchase any ammunition lately?
All calibers are
disappearing from store shelves but .22 long rifles, in bulk, can't be found at
all anywhere, even the most dependable internet super dealers are out of stock
and are making no promises about when they'll be available again, and it's my
opinion that soon the same thing will be true about the other
calibers.
I readily admit that one
of the reasons is that Barack Obama's outright war on guns, the "feel good",
juvenile antics of Governor Cuomo of New York and the childish Democrats in the
Missouri and Wisconsin state legislatures have scared legal gun owners into
stockpiling ammunition, justly fearing that it will get hard, if not impossible
to get. But can somebody please tell me why Homeland Security and many other,
supposedly benign government agencies have bought over two billion rounds and
are ordering millions more of all calibers, even the smaller ones?
Why does a shoot to kill
outfit like Homeland Security need tiny caliber bullets like .22's that are made
for hunting small game? Is Homeland Security going to start exterminating
squirrels or rabbits, and why does an agency like Social Security need any kind
of ammunition?
Is this a back door
attempt at gun control, a way around a Congress that is scared to death of gun
legislation? Another presidential backstreet move to have his way by hook or
crook and blame it on free market demand? Just dry up the ammo and the guns will
be useless?
My information is that
the manufacturers are straining every nerve trying to keep up with the demand
but with Homeland Security commandeering so much of their production, the task
is impossible.
Is this the beginning of
the weaning of America?
It's a scary scenario,
but let me relate an even scarier one.
If the government can
make bullets disappear from store shelves, why couldn't they make food
disappear, or fuel or medicine, or anything else for that matter?
The point being that big
government can do just about anything they want to and there's little the
minority of us who fear it can do about it as long as the majority who don't
fear it keeps tripping down the primrose path with their heads in the clouds and
their hands out.
There is a little known
piece of legislation that passed Congress a while back called The Food Safety
Modernization Act and the provisions are shadowy at best, having to do with
agriculture and the production of food in America.
I checked into it when I
found out about it only to find the bill had just cleared the Senate and was on
President Obama's desk. What struck me as strange was the fact that our two
Tennessee Senators were split on the vote, Bob Corker voted against it and Lamar
Alexander voted for it.
I was assured by Senator
Alexander's office that "Senator Alexander would never do anything to hurt the
farmers," well does that mean that Senator Corker would do something to hurt the
farmers by voting against it? Which means that one of the Senators voted against
the farmers of Tennessee. Which one?
The provisions of the
bill are said to protect the food supply, but what does that mean when it's
taken out of government speak and translated into plain English?
Personally, I believe
the government has taken upon itself the power to interrupt agriculture at any
time it chooses under the guise of keeping tainted or otherwise unsafe food out
of the market, up to and including the planting and harvesting of private home
gardens.
The flow of medicine
could easily be interrupted by claiming it contained impurities and harmful
substances.
We've already seen how
fuel can be rationed, just slow down the availability and delivery.
Big government can bring
this nation to it's knees in a matter of days and with a passive Senate and an
ever more acquiescent Supreme Court, the power to do so is falling into the
hands of one man.
Shaky ground for a free
nation.
What do you
think?
Pray for our troops and
the peace of Jerusalem.
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