Late to the Show.

[jdmidwest]

I stopped by a local gun shop today that specializes in Americas Rifle.  I needed a couple of sling swivels on my latest deer rifle.

Older guy comes in the busy crowd, wearing a mask.  Looking for ammo for his handgun.  Clerk walks him back to a fairly well stocked selection due to present conditions.  He starts arguing, "its twice what I normally used to pay for premium rounds."  Clerk replies that there is an ammo crisis due to conditions that have occurred this month and the past Year!  He starts babbling, "didn't you take civics class?  Nothin going to happen, we have a democracy here, nothing to worry about."

At this point, my filter flies off, I am not wearing a mask and not employed there.  "We are in a Republic, One Nation under God!, or did you forget that little pledge?"  He sputtered I think, hard to tell under that useless little mask.  The clerk grinned and thanked me later.

In a Republic, we have an individual voice.  In a Democracy, a group has control.