I just took flights from BWI to Detroit and back, and the only people who were allowed to carry a firearm beyond the "TSA Security" were folks reading a newspaper. The TSA goons seemed more concerned about bossing people around than scanning for "banned" items in carry-on suitcases. One guy in Detroit who scanned my bag was seemingly asleep at the switch, didn't seem like he was really paying attention. But this is what you get with an uneducated, very inadequately trained group of government "officials" who really do not serve any purpose at all. I don't really care if they need to feed their family, so does everybody else with legitimate jobs.
The big problem with the nation truly resides in trusting the government and adoring the media. Essentially everything the former tells you is a lie, while the latter just skews the lies to fit their own agenda, which is to gain ratings. If you have a President that says he'll veto a bill regarding indefinite detainment, then actually signs the same bill while providing weapons to Islamic fundamentalists in Libya and Syria (then bombing them via predator drones), you really have a fuucked up, insane government that even a true Liberal would abhor.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens in the next four years. I'll tell you what, from my time in Michigan, there's such a divergence between the Obama leechfuuck folks and the we know Washington is foreign group that this will not end well. The Detroit area has been such a decimated metropolis by the Federal Government under Clinton and Bush that you probably have a microcosm of the US as a whole. As they try to allow concealed carry in public schools, which was just vetoed by the governor, this divergence will probably increase as you have two population sets that want two different things. As the economy continues to deteriorate, there will certainly be that population that demands more handouts, which is beyond the government's spending means. And if they don't get it, they could very well escalate flashmob violence or riots against whomever they think is at fault for the disaster.
I can certainly see why some folks are stocking up on firearms and ammunition. Trends rule all, and this country is trending downward fast, any idiot can see that.
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And you can count on ME waiting for you in the parking lot!
Classic.
My boss is from California, she has nothing but good things to say about it.
She must not know much about municipal bonds and cost of living. Not surprising, she probably has an oil field named after her.