Guns (Wheee!)

It's fairly obvious that I'm a gun rights advocate. So it will come as even less of a surprise that I think the Brady Campaign is full of it. Here's something they said today:

"We don't dispute [the gun sales hike] because the numbers from the federal system certainly confirm that there is increased activity out there. We just think it's a bit stupid," said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence.

"Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don't think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."

Hamm is very likely correct, that people who already own guns are out buying more. But more than they need? I could make the old arguments that this nation isn't based on "need" and that it's based on individual liberty, but that would fall on perennially deaf ears. So I'm going to use a somewhat different tack that hopefully will make enough sense to become the new main line of counter-argument.

What the Brady Campaign has never understood, and fails to understand even now, is that this isn't a matter of intelligence or legislation. It's a simple matter of Zombies.

Now, just because we've been making shaky progress in the stock market away from the 7000-point, Dow Jones Insta-Zombie level (DJIZ), that doesn't mean that we've escaped the inevitable, and the American Public isn't fooled.

Peter Hamm might say that those people who are out buying guns don't need more. But who is really in a position to dictate the needs of others in the face of a likely zombie apocalypse? Certainly not someone who knows so little about guns to begin with like the Brady Campaign. Even I wouldn't assume to know, because I don't know how many openings of what size are in any individual's household. If I did, I'd know exactly how many guns could be made to point out of them, which is what I would imagine necessity will dictate.

Besides, the people buying weapons now are buying the ones that Zombie Collaborators like Hamm don't want us to have because they're the effective ones. Everyone knows that.