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Today I "counseled" several QPs at work about not having prepared for this eventuality. Then I reminded them about the folly of proceeding without a plan and engaging in panic buying. Remember PACE, do a realistic threat analysis, and make your purchases accordingly. The start point for your analysis should be the Clinton ban. Your timeline needs to be calculated based on inaugeration and the usual time required to get a bill through congress. Adjust for the current realities. It took Clinton 18 months; Obama has a stronger hand and a more rabid constituency he has to placate. Firearms rights are a good confidence target, especially when he needs a bone to distract his supporters with "see, we're doing something". Plan accordingly. I'm not going to tell anyone what to buy; I am going to wish all of us luck.
BTW - The initial panic will skew price and availability (see recent gas crisis in NC). Wise shoppers will treat it like a stock market purchase and follow the market closely before investing. The bad news - "now we enter the winter of our discontent". There won't be any "deals" and if you don't time it right you'll pay way too much (if it's even available) for something that won't meet your real needs.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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