The question might be, “Is this what America has come to?” And the answer to that unfortunately is, “Yes.” The name fits.
Observe the trash stock, made from recycled plastics that might have been recovered from a dumpster in a backstreet. I imagine that stock is either built by robots, themselves designed and constructed in Taiwan. Or possibly, it was pounded out of molds on a sweatshop floor by illegal immigrants recently arrived from Guatemala.
The metal is like that found in the construction of trash bins. No union hand ever touched it from start to finish. Who could imagine in years gone by that America would come to this?
The American economy is busted out by corporate fat cats who stripped the country bear, robbed company pension funds and outsourced whenever possible to the third world. What is left is an impoverished mass, waiting for the next blow from the Wall Street elite. Today, the corporate gang who brought the country to its knees continues on its path of greed and destruction. Their goal is to take the last scrap from the table, to take the last vestiges of dignity from the American worker. Yes, those citizens lucky enough to hold jobs might buy a rifle like the Ruger American, and so the name fits.
But jingoism aside, when I look at this rifle, I do not think of America. To me, that country will always be associated with John Wayne, freedom and the dignity that comes from self reliance and honest work. When I look at the latest Ruger offering, I am reminded of Germany, and one German word in particular. It is Shiza.
