Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I actually had a “WTF” moment the other day with a customer. Sometimes, I get some people who arent really stupid, just ignorant. Whats the difference? Ignorance is a lack of knowledge or information. It can be fixed. Stupid is having all the answers and still getting it wrong.

A customer, whom I know owns an AR-15, a Mini-14, A Glock, and a buncha other politically ‘incorrect’ guns comes in and asks why are prices so high and availability so low? Folks are stocking up against anything the Obama administration may pull, I reply. His response: “They cant take away our ammo. Obama isnt going to take our guns away. Biden said that the Assault Weapons ban wasnt a high prioirty.”

And my jaw hit the floor like a sack of hammers.

“You..do..You…”, and it took a minute for the gears in my brain fully engage after that amazing cerebral gear-strip. “Do you believe the Democrats?”, I asked trying not to make it sound like “Are you stupid enough to believe the Democrats?”.
“The Supreme Court said we have a right bear arms, so they cant take our guns or ammo away.”
My brain is reeling like prizefighter who just had his bell rung. Theres a hundred responses beating each other into submission to be the first one out of my mouth.
“Uhm..The Heller decision? That says nothing about ammo, man. And that didnt say they couldn’t ….”
“The Supreme Court upheld the second amendment, that we have a right bear arms. So Obama cant take our guns away even if he wanted to.”, he says with conviction.
“Where in the second amendment does it say anything about ammo?”
“Arms. Ammo. Same thing!”
“So you genuinely believe that Obama and Biden, even after their attorney general said he wanted to reinstate the assault weapons ban, are just going to ignore the gun issues?”
“They said they don’t have the votes even if they wanted to.”
And Im looking at this man like Im looking at someone who just told me with all the sincerity and conviction of a true believer that the earth was flat. But…he’s a customer. Gotta be diplomatic.
“Well, I disagree. Im going to play it safe and keep stockpiling anyway.”, I said as he left the store, apparently feeling he may have agitated me a little too much.

In my mind, I had visions of a grandfatherly old Jewish man standing at the station next to a cattle car, saying everything is fine and they would never hurt us.