Guns Flying Off Wal-Mart Shelves

Only in the most influential country in the world can you buy deadly assault weapons in one of the world’s largest retailers.

And only in the most influential country in the world, would they be flying off the shelves days after a crazed gunman went on a killing spree in an elementary school in small town America.

According to several news reports, mega-retailer Wal-Mart is running out of automatic assault weapons, similar to the m16s used by armies around the world – including the American military. They are also running low on high capacity “clips” which store excessive amounts of ammunition – just in case you happen to run out.

If this were a joke, it might be in poor taste. But it’s just a sad fact of life the United States of America.

As funeral processions line the streets all week, to lay to rest the innocent, incomplete lives of very young children, and their heroic teachers that tried to save them, politicians and interest groups clash over gun control.

As the debate rages on in the political offices from the White House to local congressional leaders, people afraid they won’t be able to legally arm themselves are running out, and stocking up on military-grade weapons like kids stock up on candy.

You’d swear these people were stocking up to take over another country, but instead for the most part, they claim it’s for self defence.

From what? Mexico? Canada? The Former Soviet Union?

It’s a sad day in world history, when the sale of military-grade assault weapons outsells bread and bottled water combined.

Yet that is what has and is happening as you read this.

Whatever happened to the American dream – the ideals that anyone that put in the effort and hard work could make it there?

Ah, the elusive American dream – a house, with a white picket fence, a family, a dog, and a career which furnishes all of the necessities of life, and then some.

Since the industrial revolution, many countries the world over have set their standards to achieve by that elusive American dream.

Stock markets around the world are still compared to the American ones, and countries measure their capital by comparing it to the all mighty American Greenback Dollar.

Perhaps it’s time to re-consider which country to set the barometer for economic and social success?

Because if the American dream includes being armed to the teeth, I don’t know about you, but that’s not any dream I want to be a part of.