re: "Don't you think you're going a little overboard? Or are you arming the whole neighbborhood?"
Well, let's see. I don't find guns particularly interesting. I don't fear for my safety and never have. I'm not out to "get" anybody... They're not that much fun. I've hunted, but I think it is boring and I won't be doing too much more of it - unless I have to, which I think I eventually will.
The answer, as Nemo just said, is NOOOOOO! Forty is about right for me. I must have a dozen that I've never fired and don't even fully understand. But if guns were more of a draw presonally, I'd be telling you that I owned over a hundred by now and would be as enthusiastic in my recommendation for others to buy them as I have been this last decade with gold.
I don't really expect you to understand. But I'm almost certain that, in time, if you bother to think back about this topic at all, you WILL. And you'll probably just figure that I got lucky - as some of the others who knew me from way back do with regard to my PM purchases.
I am no longer "saving," Linda. Money that I would previously have put into bonds, treasuries, funds, stocks, foreign currencies, houses and other dollar denominated assets now has to go somewhere else. It has to be spent.
However, I'm not interested in blowing it. I'm not going to spend it on cars, vacations, fancy clothes, new furniture, high class dining, housecleaning, lawn maintenance, jewelry or frivolous housing.
Fortunately, my dating days are long past, and the woman I finally settled on was a rare find - eminently practical!
So, if I weren't buying guns, what would you suggest? I want items that are expensive (but not overpriced), easily stored, useful, robust (which means they won't deteriorate, spoil, oxidize or age poorly), low-maintenance (which rules out Arabian stallions and bonzai trees) and which have enduring value (as opposed to most art, stamps or tulip bulbs.)
Guns are a fine choice. They meet my requirements. So does ammunition. And I've bought liquor, a LOT of liquor, despite the fact that I hardly drink.
I'm acquiring guns, ammo, liquor, PM, and farmable land.
There are other things, too - tools, fertilizer, medicine, vitamins, food, clothes, rural house, etc, - but I'm not really ACCUMULATING them. They don't meet my requirements as alternatives to dollar-denominated "savings," so I'm not buying them in quantity.
Now that you understand why I have forty guns, what would you suggest I buy instead, given that I don't want to BLOW the money? If you can think of anything I haven't already considered, you'd be doing me a favor.
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