Well, considering the chance I have of getting shot up vs the chance I have of getting my civil liberties infringed upon by the TSA, it's a pretty easy choice. Jesus you act like every time you walk out of your house youre getting shot at, this isn't iraq, you have like a .0000000000001% chance of being a victim of a "mass murdering gun nutter"
I travel often and haven't been felt up or had my civil liberties infringed as of yet
I'm not worried at all about being shot but that doesn't change the fact that we seem to have the mass shootings about once every few weeks
The funniest fucking thing about this story (the one this thread is supposed to be about) is that the TRULY paranoid delusional gun nuts who think the DHS is buying up ammo so that they can wage war on US citizens and these nuts seem to have found a sympathetic supporter in a TeaBagger congressman
Shit, even conservatives at the National Review are laughing at these idiots
Alex Jones, House Republicans, and Those Ammo Purchases
By Betsy Woodruff
June 7, 2013 10:58 AM
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The House may have just passed an amendment because of Alex Jones. Late on Wednesday, the lower chamber voted to keep the Department of Homeland Security from entering a contract to purchase 1.1 billion rounds of ammunition until it issues a report justifying itself to Congress. After that report is issued, the amendment would require quarterly reports on ammunition purchases.
The Hill explains the rationale behind this amendment, which was proposed by Representative Mark Meadows (R., N.C.):
Meadows said the speed bump is a necessary reaction to news of the huge purchase, which alarmed many Americans and prompted conservative groups to suspect that the government was stocking up on the rounds to fight citizens.
Concerns about the DHS’s ammunition purchases seem to have their genesis in Alex Jones’s conspiracy-theory website, InfoWars (full disclosure: Jones’s site thinks I work for the CIA). The original story about the sheer number of bullets being bought was picked up by numerous news outlets, but here’s the catch: It wasn’t a story. As Tom Stilson reported at Breitbart, the purchases were routine – the DHS buys ammunition in bulk to save money and uses it for training for a number of other agencies. There don’t seem to be any ulterior motives for the purchases, and concerns that the purchases were intended to cause ammunition shortages also seem entirely unfounded.
But that didn’t stop the House from passing that amendment last night, just in case.
Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean House Republicans have been perusing InfoWars for legislative ideas. According to his spokesman, Meadows wasn’t influenced by the site; rather, he received numerous calls from constituents, which prompted him to take action.
