The \u2018Make My Day Guns & Ammo\u201d shop does a brisk business these days on the heavily defended South End. Earl and his brother Biker Billy watched their revenues double in the 2008 election, then double again in 2012, most buyers convinced the government was going to confiscate all the firearms in America. Earl and Billy could keep up with their gun inventory, but ammo was rationed and frightened homeowners were put on a waiting list. Ralph Hansen wanted to know if he\u2019d need to ask his \u2018intruders\u2019 if they\u2019d mind waiting before they broke into his house, raped his wife and daughters, then killed him. In the end, Earl sold him a Browning over and under and a box of 12 gauge slugs he said would stop a rabid rhinoceros. Billy shook his head when Ralph walked out with the shotgun in its tooled leather case proud as Hemingway. \u201cHow many shotguns does he have?\u201d he asked his brother. And Earl smiled as he put Ralph\u2019s check under the cash drawer in the register. \u201cProbably one shy of enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Down my well armed end of the Alamo I hear plenty of gunfire. The mizzus took years to get used to the sudden bark of semi-automatic practice sessions of the local militia excercising not only their right to bear arms, but their obligation to shoot them as often as possible. She\u2019d ask, alarmed, what is THAT?? Gunfire, I\u2019d say nonchalantly, and she\u2019d grow more alarmed, her fears realized and then want to call the police. It\u2019s America, I\u2019d explain patiently, figuring that was explanation plenty, all Clint Eastwood would bother with, why waste words OR ammo?<\/p>\n
A few years back we had a bad hombre stroll down Bernie Road when it was a one lane dirt cutoff to Tyee Store, occasionally letting loose with an automatic assault rifle beside the cow pastures up there, alarming more than just the mizzus. Turns out he was wanted on felony warrants and the local gendarme treated him like Machine Gun Kelly on meth, waited until he\u2019d gone to bed at his moll\u2019s place off Dallman, then dropped a stun blast through the window and shot him to pieces reaching for either his trousers or his gun. The sheriffs around these parts don\u2019t much cotton to automatic weapons being practiced on the roadways. Especially by hardass criminals.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t say the mizzus has gotten used to country livin\u2019, but she doesn\u2019t race to the phone to call 911 every artillery session or the opening of hunting season. I guess she just figures it\u2019s slightly better than moving to Beirut or Baghdad or the wrong side of Everett. At least the casualties are somewhat less. Even if supposedly we\u2019re not at war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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