BULLETS: Where the hell do they all go?

One of the mysteries of modern society concerns the shortage of bullets.

I was reading in today's occasional daily newspaper -- occasional because it publishes only once in a while -- six or seven stories about shootings in our area. That would be, as you know unless you're a total ignoramus, shootings of people by guns of one calibre or another. These shootings included the exchange of bullets between police and gunmen, excuse me, gunBOYS for they are 17 and 18, in a busy theater parking lot this week.

There seem to be plenty of bullets available for the folks who wanna shoot someone else.

Maybe that's because 8 billion bullets were produced in the U.S. last year, and closer to 10 billion will be produced this year. God -- or someone -- probably knows how many additional bullets are imported, because the rest of the world is scrambling to take advantage of the huge American appetite for guns and bullets and other non-discriminating killing devices. Fools and their money are soon parted.

This should be some evidence that the disappearance of the bullets is all perfectly explanatory. Our "well-regulated" citizen militia is buying them up and shooting them at people. It speaks well for us as a nation that most of those billions of bullets never find their mark.
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Then I turned the page. Ye Gads! Some people are blaming Obama for the shortage. He's to blame for getting elected, you see. He has done nothing at all to control the murder and mayhem in our streets or the onrushing sales of murderous weapons in our "sports" shops. He hasn't banned even so much as a BB gun or a popwad used in a toy cap gun. He simply got elected. This gave the frantically stupid right wing the opportunity to accuse him of being a gun control "nut."

So let us people of some intelligence marvel at the spectacle of gun lovers, buying bullets at exorbitant prices to shoot at other people if they wish, and hoarding the bullets in their basements against a shortage created by --- themselves! Which they then blame on Obama because their ilk is spreading the word that he is going to ban guns, a rumor they undoubtedly started in order to sell more guns and ammo.

Some people are just too stupid or self-deluded to look at without laughing. Unfortunately in all their inane foolishness, they're armed to the crotch with lethal weapons.