We got ‘til 1am on the HPA/SHORT Act🚨

[letusbuyyourcar]

Folks would flip if they knew less than 100 years ago you could order a Thompson by mail and have it delivered by rail. Or, up until 1968 order a handgun and the USPS would drop it off with your power bill.

Yeah it seems like some unbelievable passed down tale about going to your local Western Auto or hardware store and buy a BAR or a Thompson right off the rack behind the counter.
Then again... folks used to be able to get Benzedrine and Morphine over the counter. Nothing quite like a good old pharmaceutical grade speed ball.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Folks would flip if they knew less than 100 years ago you could order a Thompson by mail and have it delivered by rail. Or, up until 1968 order a handgun and the USPS would drop it off with your power bill.

The problem is to far too many, that just sounds like "ancient history". If it hasn't happened in their adult lifetime is not really "real". The changes in less than a single lifetime have been mind blowing. Nations have completely crumbled in far less time. It will happen again.

 

[Spikey]

Yeah it seems like some unbelievable passed down tale about going to your local Western Auto or hardware store and buy a BAR or a Thompson right off the rack behind the counter.
Then again... folks used to be able to get Benzedrine and Morphine over the counter. Nothing quite like a good old pharmaceutical grade speed ball.

1963 . 12 years old. Walked in to the local hardware store . Bought a Mossberg .22 rifle and ammo . Everyone knew my family , and what kind of people we were . All went to church together . Won’t see that ever again .

 

[BIKER13]

some people should not have guns, what about them?

 

[DanKATL]

some people should not have guns, what about them?

Who gets to choose who shouldn't have guns?

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

The problem is to far too many, that just sounds like "ancient history". If it hasn't happened in their adult lifetime is not really "real". The changes in less than a single lifetime have been mind blowing. Nations have completely crumbled in far less time. It will happen again.

You remind me of the late great Tim Wilson picking some millennial out of the crowd and asking if the guy had a Lyndon Johnson album. Most of the time they would say some dumb **** like "Well I heard of him but I don't have any of his albums."
Then Tim would say how that generation just assumed nothing important happened until they showed up. He topped it off by saying " No nothing good happened since y'all showed up."
I've said it before but being over 50 I have very clear memories of listening to Great Depression/WW2 generation people. Granted that was mostly my grandparents but they used to be everywhere and a great source of important details about history. My kids didn't have that experience and no matter how much I try to explain or retell it to them it's not even close to the same as getting it straight from the source. Lots of young people now would flat refuse to believe there was ever a time when there were NO JOBS and NOTHING to eat. Just like they wouldn't believe or understand how you could be snatched up sent to the induction center and before you knew it you were in the European or Pacific theatre being shot at. I don't think most people now could even give the correct definition of hardship or sacrifice. Don't get me wrong here. I ain't never been REALLY tested like them old folks were but I understand it. Hell I'm grateful that I ain't been tested like that. And at least to some extent it's because of the sacrifices that THEY made for my parents and then me.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

1963 . 12 years old. Walked in to the local hardware store . Bought a Mossberg .22 rifle and ammo . Everyone knew my family , and what kind of people we were . All went to church together . Won’t see that ever again .

So your folks must have sent you to the store for a pack of Lucky Strikes and a fifth with money in your pocket and a note pinned to your overalls.

 

[BIKER13]

Who gets to choose who shouldn't have guns?

so mentally ill people should have guns? I dont care who chooses

 

[DanKATL]

so mentally ill people should have guns? I dont care who chooses

Who gets to choose who's mentally ill? Cause right now there's all kinds of confusion about what being mentally ill is.

 

[BIKER13]

Who gets to choose who's mentally ill? Cause right now there's all kinds of confusion about what being mentally ill is.

OK we will just give em all a machine gun that should work out