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While returning from the hospital in Boston today where my bride of 40 years is receiving radiation treatment, I decided to stop by one of local gun shops in Weymouth, Ma. just off Rte 3 south. I walked into the 'Hunters Trading Post' where I've shopped for years for good used doubles looking to see what Parkers and LC Smith's they typically have on hand for sale.

The store was packed! People were lined up at the counter (men and women) in the process of purchasing thier handgun while to the right side of the store there were a number of customers looking at or in the process of buying a semi-auto, AR-15 type weapon. It was astonishing to see so many folks in the process of buying firearms and I couldn't help but think that as horrible as the events in Connecticut were/are, the politician's and media's knee jerk reaction to start clammering for a ban on 'assault' type fireararms (and I suppose firearms in general would be the next step) is spuring just the thing they seek to eliminate.

It was an eye opener.