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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery time I hear someone on the news telling about a massive "arsenal"
that is unearthed in a post-massacre search, I think about all those sad old people who are humiliated and publicly shamed when their hoarding is exposed in the news. There is no limit to the excoriation they suffer for what is obviously a mental illness/combined with misguided altruism. Every aspect of their life is exposed for all to see, as crews of people dismantle their lives, and confiscate/destroy/discard their belongings.
Some collect newspapers/magazines,others collect stray animals, some even collect everything.
The "stuff" they hang onto is surely dangerous to some extent, (stacks of stuff can fall on them) but the amount of grief they endure and the public shaming, is so extreme when it's compared to people who are into extreme weapons-hoarding. They are somehow righteous because they have a constitutional right to collect things that when used in the way they were intended to be used, can (and often do) kill and maim ......loved ones, themselves, and of course random strangers.
Maybe it's time to cut unarmed hoarders some slack..
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)That is, until we can legally put an end to this kind of insane behavior.
mercymechap
(579 posts)mental disorder, just like those that hoard other stuff.
Peter cotton
(380 posts)I've seen the term used in news reports when someone has as little as three guns.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)As far as I am concerned, if these bigots only have one gun it qualifies a weapons cache:
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)[IMG][/IMG]
That is a picture of my platoon just before we left Iraq.
I don't know what that picture has to do with anything, but I couldn't resist posting it anyways.
However, a "real" army unit would make quick work of a wanna be militia. I've seen how wanna-be militias fare against a well trained and heavily armed regular army unit and it never ended in their favor.
The conversation in the turret of my bradley fighting vehicle would have been:
"gunner, coax, troops truck troops. Kill kill kill, HE shift left truck. kill kill kill". The whole engagement would have lasted 10-30 seconds. Pretty sick, huh?
Peter cotton
(380 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Peter cotton
(380 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)What's the magic number of guns or ammunition?
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)that woman has her guns strewn about, just look at her kitchen. She does have hoarding problems.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)But hoarding a ton of crap ruins people's lives too.