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Musicmystery -> RE: FOX: Trump bad for gun sales (4/2/2017 9:38:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WyrdRich
Well, yeah. It's kind of a Duh, really.
CA is still CA, though. I bought the wife a 9mm for our anniversary (hey, fuck off, I think it's a very romantic gift. With my ex, I wouldn't have a gun in the house, much less give her her own). Went out to pick up some plinkers right after the election and shelves were bare. CA passed a law requiring a background check for ammo purchases that takes effect in 2018, and enough people panicked.
Tell us Muse, since you want to talk about jobs, how many people do you think work in a typical company that makes aftermarket upper receivers for an Armalite style .223? What sort of skills do you suppose those employees have? No googling now.
Well,no Rich, it isn't a topic about jobs. It's data that supports a hypothesis that a lot of the gun market is driven by irrational fear stirred up by the gun lobby. If you want to go off on related tangents, you might compare it to the mania about muslims pouring over our borders so we need a wall that won't actually do much.
From there we speculated about the economics of those gun purchase trend and possible market consequences. I didn't mention jobs once. But sure, jobs are a possible effect of those changes, so if you want to talk about that, fine.
Skills are transferable, first. If more to the point, a declining domestic market and excess inventory doesn't mean the end . The US sells arms globally, even funding both sides of conflicts at times,. Taxpayers will end up buying guns, one way or another. And, certainly gun enthusiasts aren't done collecting.
I'm also,btw,not in favor of "saving" jobs. Detroit 'a auto dominance is not coming back, ever, because we have a glut of cars, because there's significant foreign competition, because markets today are global, and because automation has permanently replaced many manufacturing jobs. Retraining workers for new industries makes far more sense. Labor markets change along with product markets.
Whether I have or haven't specific knowledge on the skills needed to manufacture a specific product is irrelevant to all those points. If your point is just "well I know things you don't," that's hardly surprising...I suspect there are many such things, just as you likely don't know the details of my areas of expertise.
*shrug*
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