AdamB wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:I have to agree with my wife that I don't need any more guns but what has NEED ever had to do with it.
Well, I gotta give both you and the wife props on that one. My wife is resigned to it, other than when she asks occasionally about how much one costs, "oh that one is pretty" and doesn't like the answer.
Men and women both like to spend money on things they don't actually "need". Lots of money if they can afford it. Though they often are very DIFFERENT things, and often seen as utter nonsense to those who don't want them (whether racks of guns, closets full of various clothes, boats, or cars that go fast and make loud engine noises, etc.), they're all really toys and largely about social status, at the end of the day.
Whatever floats your boat, I guess. My brother in law has, literally, a giant metal safe in his basement that is so heavy he's not worried about it being stolen, and part of a wall would have to be dismantled to get it out, as it won't fit through any normal door. It's full of survival related stuff like lots of guns, ammo, gold and silver coins, etc, as he's been expecting doomsday re the financial system for decades.
They already raise or hunt a fair amount of food on their small farm (he hunts and my sister does most of the actual farm work, being retired). It helps them sleep better at night, just like my S&W 38 special in my bedside table and my PM's in safe deposit boxes and my investment portfolio does for me, 3 plus decades running now.
Each to their own. We're all mortal, none of us can see the future, and world leaders will choose to do things like fire up wars, or not, regardless of how the little people choose to live.