re: #292 Shiplord Kirel

In talking to gun cultists, I’ve learned that many of them do not take their usual stated reasons for scary black gun ownership seriously. They don’t really believe in UN occupation or resisting tyranny. What they eventually admit they want the SBGs for is to mow down loot-crazed hordes of “others” in the event of riots or a general breakdown of civil order. Even that, though, is not the core of the onion, there are more layers beneath that one. Why, for example, do you need a fast-firing, high capacity gun to resist looters? Wouldn’t popping a couple of them with an old fashioned shotgun persuade the rest to hightail it away? Or are they some kind of fanatical army, who will keep on coming until all are dead? I have not talked to any loot-crazed rioters, but I am pretty sure that is not how they would react to violent resistance. The real purpose, I submit, is to make sure you bag as many of the “others” as possible, once and for all, when the chance finally presents itself.

Freeper/Sipsey Street terminology is “SHTF gun”. The craving for SHTF is obvious.