Right-Wing Media Machine Backs the Wrong Horse in Pirate Stand-Off
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Apocalypse, Chico, Politics
While US Navy SEALS were parachuting onto the deck of a US Warship, authorized by President Obama to use deadly force in the rescue of American ship Captain Richard Phillips, whom was successfully recovered after snipers shot three Somali pirates dead, the usual suspects in the right-wing punditry club were too busy calling President Obama a coward for his failure to act and relishing the impending doom of Capt Phillips, to even notice. Sorry guys, maybe next time.
In the meantime however, that same media fear factory has definitely been succeeding on other fronts in their war on reality, forcefully re-introducing the "they're coming for our guns meme" into the already stoked flames of recession-induced anxiety. It's already cost a couple of Pittsburgh police officers their lives, and it probably won't end there. After all, local retailers say they can't keep enough bullets in stock these days, because every time they get a shipment in, it gets instantly sold-out, purchased in bulk for those preparing for the impending APOCALYPSE ZOMGGGGGGGG
"Every inch of the nation is this way. I have people calling me every day from Wisconsin, South Carolina, North Carolina, Missouri. I had a guy call me from Denver, Col., this morning wanting .45-caliber auto ammo. There's not a box of .45-caliber auto ammo in Denver, Col.," explained Bob Post, manager of Huntington's Sportsman's Store in Oroville.
"Our handgun ammo, our pistol ammo, is flying off the shelf. We can't keep it in stock," said Dave Ebright, owner of the Sportsman's Den in Chico.
"Anybody that gets ammo on their shelves, it doesn't last more than a couple of days and it's gone," he continued.
When ammunition does arrive "people want to buy the whole damn case. I try to talk people out of it, but they aren't going to do it," said Phil Peeples, partner in The Tackle Box.
