Joan really is losing it. I haven’t been fisking her much because frankly her recent posts have been so loony and unhinged that there isn’t much to talk about.
In a recent post she was talking about how .22 LR ammo is no where to be found. When I bought my pair of Ruger LCRs the shop was nice enough to dig up a few boxes of .22 to go with my purchases that weren’t on the shelf. It wasn’t great ammo, or stuff I’d normally buy, but A) Any port in a storm, and B) I have two .22 Revolvers that will eat any crap I feed them without concern.
She likes to portray the lack of .22 for sinister reasons, but the reality is new shooters NEED .22. Its cheap, and its easy to shoot and train with. We have more new shooters in America ever before, and they’re hitting the range, and they’re bringing .22 to practice with. This is GREAT! better shooters mean a safer America, and the anti-gun cult HATES that.
Still she left this money quote in her comments:
Not everyone has good intentions with all of that ammo. That was my point, of course. It may not be unusual to you but you are in the minority of people who believe this.
This response was to Bryan Strawser who mentioned that competitive shooters buy and shoot tens-of-thousands of rounds on a regular basis. Joan thinks they’re up to no good.
Still we HAVE people who are up to no good in custody. How much ammo do they use?
James Holmes of the Aurora shooting did indeed buy a few thousand rounds…but I don’t think he shot more than 100 rounds, most of them missing in his spree. Probably much less as most victims were wounded with birdshot from a shotgun. How often did he shoot before he was apprehended?
Sung Cho visited a Virginia shooting range a few times before he killed himself and 32 others at Virginia tech. But how many rounds did he shoot there? He had lots of unused ammo in his bag at the time of his death.
Adam Lanza, may have gone shooting with his mother, but those details are scarce.
Jared Laughner may have never fired his Glock before he expended one magazine in the Arizona Mall.
The list could go on, but frankly I don’t see much evidence that these honest-to-god spree killers did much as far as training or shooting, either before, or during their crimes.
Frankly I suspect I shoot more rounds in a single range session than these criminals did in their entire lives. Certainly a month of ammo for me covers most of them…and I’m not a competitive shooter. A pro shooter probably covers all the spree shooters lifetime of ammo AND their local police department.
Yeah, sounds like the people buying all the ammo are “Up to no good”. Joan Peterson is obviously crazy.