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Yesterday I gave my boss 15 rounds of OO, some BB magnum shells, and some #4 shot shells in exchange for a very nice bottle of wine.
I'd be willing to trade a box or 2 of ammo here or there to those I know and trust. Loan out guns? Not without a MASSIVE breakdown in civil society, and I mean Katrina level. And even then, it would be a case by case basis.
As for my neighbors? I don't interact with most of them. The ones on either side of me I am pretty sure have guns of their own- one is a blue collar guy, and the other is a young hothead kid living with his Momma, who I know has at least hunting guns. I have a 25 year old nurse across the street who is as clueless as they come, and who would probably run off to her Momma and Daddy's house at the first sign of trouble. There's a gal who was a Marine down the block. There's some Mexicans on the corner that blast pistols into the air on New Year's eve, which is totally irresponsible, and burns me up, but... There's also a Puerto Rican family from Texas, and they have shooting range stickers all over their work truck, so that tells me all I need to know about them.
I live in an ethnically diverse, mixed blue & white collar middle class subdivision in a pretty liberal big city, but this is still the South. Even my neighbor who is big into local Democratic politics has let it slip in conversation he has a Colt SAA .45
Some post-election rioting? Even Katrina level civil breakdown? I don't worry about that much here. One, if things DO get that bad, I'd think that most of us would be banding together pretty quickly to take care of essentials and look out for one another. And if you think that the Mexican and Nepali and Burman immigrants are interested in some idjidts messing up their American dream, well, the idjidts are going to find out real quickly that people who earned what they got are willing to fight to keep it. And i wouldn't want to tangle with anyone who spent their formative years during the Burman civil wars.
I'd be willing to trade a box or 2 of ammo here or there to those I know and trust. Loan out guns? Not without a MASSIVE breakdown in civil society, and I mean Katrina level. And even then, it would be a case by case basis.
As for my neighbors? I don't interact with most of them. The ones on either side of me I am pretty sure have guns of their own- one is a blue collar guy, and the other is a young hothead kid living with his Momma, who I know has at least hunting guns. I have a 25 year old nurse across the street who is as clueless as they come, and who would probably run off to her Momma and Daddy's house at the first sign of trouble. There's a gal who was a Marine down the block. There's some Mexicans on the corner that blast pistols into the air on New Year's eve, which is totally irresponsible, and burns me up, but... There's also a Puerto Rican family from Texas, and they have shooting range stickers all over their work truck, so that tells me all I need to know about them.
I live in an ethnically diverse, mixed blue & white collar middle class subdivision in a pretty liberal big city, but this is still the South. Even my neighbor who is big into local Democratic politics has let it slip in conversation he has a Colt SAA .45
Some post-election rioting? Even Katrina level civil breakdown? I don't worry about that much here. One, if things DO get that bad, I'd think that most of us would be banding together pretty quickly to take care of essentials and look out for one another. And if you think that the Mexican and Nepali and Burman immigrants are interested in some idjidts messing up their American dream, well, the idjidts are going to find out real quickly that people who earned what they got are willing to fight to keep it. And i wouldn't want to tangle with anyone who spent their formative years during the Burman civil wars.