MARKET RUN ON GUNS (December 20, 2012)
The Kolding Caffe attracts many regulars. They usually sit in the same area. There are two fellows who can often been found in the area I tend to prefer. One is roughly sixty and the other roughly forty. More often than not, they talk about either banking or bridge. The older one is apparently a pro. We started exchanging greetings earlier this year, but this month we began talking. Both of them polymaths, as well as well traveled, they can be quite a bit of fun to talk to. We switch from one subject to another with incredible ease. As I was getting up to leave a short while ago, one of them touched on something that delighted me at once. “Have you heard of the market run on guns in America?” the older fellow asked. I stopped in my tracks. “Ah,” I almost shouted, “Obama’s gun control!” “Exactly,” he grinned. In the wake of the last mass murder, which has triggered a fresh debate on gun control laws, people are replenishing their gun stocks. Many gun shops have been emptied by now. Americans!