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Dilemma

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

I have a dilemma. 

 On one hand, I hate to support gun buy-back programs because they’re a waste of money on feel-good foolishness that will have absolutely no effect on crime.  This one is especially idiotic because the sponsor – Pillsbury – plans to turn the guns into “art” which means there’s also a subsidy to some “artist” to produce junk nobody would ever pay to see.

 On the other hand, I have an old .22 pistol that I bought for $100 and rarely use; they’ll give me $200 for it at the buy-back.  There might be other impulse buys and relics in the gun safe.  I could free up shelf space at higher-than-market prices and use the money to buy a gun I really want.

The Pillsbury Doughboy wants to give me a free assault rifle.  How can I turn that down? 

 It’s a dilemma.

 Joe Doakes

It’s tempting.  Oh, yes, it is.

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14 responses to “Dilemma”

  1. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    Sell it for $200, give $100 to the Stewart Mills campaign fund, $50 to a Wisconsin Republican (just to piss off Wisc Democrats), and spend the remaining $50 at Chik-fil-a and Mills Fleet Farm.

  2. DMA Avatar
    DMA

    Here’s an example. Somebody (nobody remembers who) said Christine O’Donnel was a witch. She said I am not a witch.

    She was mocked into obscurity for saying I am not a witch.

  3. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    I tried to sell my Alabanian zhurmë .484 officer’s pistol at one of them buy back things, but they insisted that it was not a real gun.

  4. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    If the cops are running the buy back program, you can get $200 for a banana.
    I bet Swiftee gets that one.

  5. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Maybe send a note to Pillsbury pointing out that gun buybacks are a great way to hide crime guns from detection–that they in fact worsen the problem. They probably won’t listen, but just in case.

  6. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Pillsbury is a General Mills brand. I don’t buy any GM products. I also don’t buy any Campbell’s soup products…turns out mixes taste better anyway.

    I don’t shop Target, I’ve never had a Starbucks and never will. I don’t buy Apple products, don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account for a hundred reasons. I don’t Google (Duck Duck Go is better anyway). My personal, personal computer, runs Linux (Ubunto is an excellent platform, superior in many ways to Windows), and all my PC’s use Firefox. I don’t care how much Flo promises to save me, I’d never have a Progressive insurance policy.

    With the variety of products available, it is no hardship at all to avoid many corporations with leftist cultures. Oh, we might not be able to avoid them all, but we don’t have to. I don’t know how many people are as adamant as I am, certainly not enough, but if just 1/2 of real Americans just gave it the merest effort, we could bring the the largest anti-American businesses to their knees; the smaller fry’s would follow.

    We don’t really need most of the crap we buy anyway.

  7. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    By the way. if you have any notion of boycotting a leftist corporation, Target makes a great target…their stock is volatile as hell and it won’t take much of a concerted to push them over the edge.

    http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tgt/historical

  8. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Bento…heh

  9. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    swiftee,

    In early 2014, I dumped Firefox, after Mozilla ousted their founder, Brendan Eich, for donating to a anti-gay marriage campaign, Once again, the leftie loons running the tech companies, violate someone’s right to free speech.

  10. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I’ve got to gently disagree with Swiftee regarding how difficult it is to avoid leftist corporations. Since leftists live and breathe their religion–leftism–you’re going to go a long way before you find a company that doesn’t make certain stances, especially those favored by the homosexual rights lobby. It doesn’t mean we can’t boycott egregious offenders, but it does make it hard to push an agenda.

    Not that I didn’t dump Firefox, too, and not that I’m not careful about other companies. But it’s just hard these days.

  11. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    What did you guys switch to? I’m running Windows X because that’s what’s on the laptop. What should I be running?

  12. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Right now, I’m running Windows 7 Professional. I’ll run that until support ends. Since the free upgrade to Windows 10 expired last month, I’ll have to pay for it, but from what my more tech savvy than I am buddies tell me, Windows 10 sucks. That means that I’m probably doing the right thing. Since my kids moved out, I got rid of my Linux server. When the wife and/or I work from home, we use our respective employer’s VPN connections to get into their networks. For general net surfing, etc; I still run my Fortinet FortiGate 30E.

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  14. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Actually, for all the hoopla about privacy concerns, I do like Win X. As usual, the hype would have you believe Win’s privacy issues are worse than sliced bread, but they are mild compared to rotten Apple, never mind scroogle. And, if you know which settings to tweak, you can make system much less intrusive. And it is faster, more stable, and less of a memory hog.

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