Bullets and inflation

[bill_schubert]

I just read that there's no inflation to speak of.  My $6 steak costs $10 now but that is not an indication of inflation.  Food has always been just something I got without much regard to cost.  I pay attention to costs in other places but have pretty much just gotten what I wanted when shopping.  That is only a bit true now.  If I stand still in the store, the prices seem to go up.  I'm assured by the learned economists that it is a temporary supply line issue and I believe that to be true.  I'd be happy to see them go back down sooner than later, though.  Makes Dinnerly seem more and more like a good buy.

The guy in San Jose had 12 guns and 25000 rounds of ammunition.  When I first heard that I thought "Where the hell does he get that kind of money? That stuff is expensive!  If I had enough cash for that I'd take a trip, to hell with shooting up my work place."

Irreverent, I know, but 50 rounds of 9mm costs between $5 and $10.  I'm guessing in LA it is $10.  So that is a quarter million dollars of ammunition.   Figure the guns at $500 each, that's a paltry $6000 but that does not count all the ancillary gear. This guy is seriously invested in his hobby.

And I'm sitting here worrying about whether I can afford to buy a higher quality of steak for dinner for another $10.

Hardly seems fair.

Comments

[susandennis]

i heard the ammunition number on npr and thot i had heard wrong. same thots i have about cigarette smokers these days. those mf's cost $10 a pack here in Seattle. my doctor still asks me every year 'you still not smoking right?' and every year i tell him that i couldn't afford it even if i wanted to.

but, yeah, i cannot imagine wasting that much money (or really any) on guns and bullets

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I was a theater major. My math here is off by a factor of 50. 25K rounds is only $5000 plus the $6000 or so for the guns and all the rest. Still around $15k but not what I was thinking. The logic still holds, though.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Mental illness factored into the economy.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, since we're not going to repeal the 2nd amendment we really need to spend some serious money on mental illness.