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pan6467 · 05-10-2009, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Tully Mars

A recession and owning a gun are connected? So I lost my job and need a gun to hold up the local bank? Or... everyone lost their jobs and I just gotta shoot someone, where's that tall tower? Or maybe a little more logical... a bunch of my neighbors lost their jobs and they might try to stealing my stuff; I want the option of shooting them if that happens.

And the auto industry largely screwed themselves. I'm not thrilled with the way the good folks in DC treated the blue collar workers as opposed the bankers but the recession may well end with them in the dust.

It was a sarcastic reply adding to the quoted post which had this and thus my post was created:

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An equally large number of people, many quite inexperienced with firearms, are also arming-up in anticipation of a rise in violent crime during what many worry will be a generational economic depression. Last time around,, they think to themselves, we got John Dillinger and Clyde Barrows and Al Capone. And that was in the '20s and '30s, when 50% of the population still lived on farms and could at least feed themselves...these days it's less than 5%! These days we have the Bloods, Crips, Aryan Nations, National Alliance MS-13, Latin Kings, Folk Nation, not to mention freelance thugs and sneak-thieves, and an almost entirely urban population. Oh HELL. "Hot" home invasions have been on a slow increase nationwide for years, and this disturbing trend combined with the sure prospect of severe recession or depression bringing on a rise in poverty (and therefore crime), has a lot of people very worried.