Candi Kinney is the owner of Roseburg Gun Shop in Roseburg, Oregon. Yes, that is indeed the very same Roseburg, Oregon that has been in the news this week because a man walked onto the campus of a community college and shot 10 people dead.
But hey, why let that stand in the way of making a buck? And Candi Kinney knows how to make a buck selling guns. She has even made sure and ordered more AR-15 assault rifles like the one Christopher Harper Mercer used to commit mass murder. Her reasoning is simple:
“I’ve just ordered some more ARs. There’s always a rush on them after a big shooting. We can’t keep the stuff on the shelves.”
Ah yes! Greed always manages to obscure grief and suffering for those who deal in death and the instruments that assist the Grim Reaper.
Ms. Kinney also knows her target audience: the nut job ammosexuals who are convinced President Obama is coming to take their guns away and turn the nation into a Muslim enclave. She makes sure to prominently display a life-size cutout of the president wrapped in a head scarf and caption that reads:
“Gun Salesman of the Year.”
Yep, gotta make sure and use fear to sell as many semiautomatic weapons of mass destruction as possible. Because one never knows when the black helicopters will land and the ATF agents will begin mass confiscation of guns.
Just so you can rest easy tonight, business has been brisk and steady at Roseburg Gun Shop, and some of the customers in the store browsing or buying new ways to kill as many people as they please were glad to explain why they were there. Chris Allen, who said he’s a mill worker, said:
“Obama sucks, he’s stupid. If criminals want to get guns they’ll get guns.”
Damn right! Let’s all arm ourselves to the teeth. That’s sure to stop all the killings we see on the evening news.
Roseburg Gun Shop is a symptom of a much greater disease which is eating away at the United States: We are perversely addicted to all things gun and all things death. It has become the cult that millions belong to and support with their time, their money, and their venom.
Until we enact logical, sensible gun control–and we can start with universal background checks–the bodies will continue to accumulate and the blood will flow down our streets unchecked.
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