20Sept05

With the full extent of the damage inflicted upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina just now becoming evident, and Hurricane Rita promising something similar for the Texas Coast, my friends in the retail gun business tell me s ales of guns and ammunition, particularly serious rifles and pistols, is brisk indeed! The promise that government, at any level, will provide people wit h meaningful protection is now seen as a hollow myth by an ever-more-nervous American citizenry. The Second Amendment is finally emerging in the minds of Americans as something vastly more important than what it has been in the i dyllic past, ie: merely a disconnected topic of casual conversation. Wherever you

live, "ANARCHY" IS ONLY SEVEN MISSED MEALS AWAY!

/John

20Sept05

Excellent comments form one of our instructors:

"There is always more than one perspective. Once the amoral get pas t the superficial and obvious social implications of anarchy, they apply the excellent Chinese proverb, "In confusion, there is opportunity." That's al l looters do. They are just amoral opportunists, albeit low-class ones.

Those of us who are a little more moral and a lot smarter and who live (comfortably) to a ripe old age, plan in advance. We solve problems before they become problems. Thus, people who have waited until the wind started to bl ow to buy guns and ammunition are a late into the game. Besides, they are thinking defensively, and we know that never works."

Comment: As Werner Herzog said, "'Civilization'" is a thin l ayer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

/John