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Many Americans agree and are stocking up on weapons after the country's worst mass shooting in three years. Gun retailers are reporting surging sales, with customers saying they want to keep handguns and rifles at hand for self-defense in the event of another attack.
"Everyone is reporting up, every store, every salesman, every distributor," said Ray Peters, manager of Range, Guns & Safes, a company that sells firearms and safes in Atlanta with an indoor firing range. "People are more aware of the need to protect themselves."
[...] Gun sales were already on the rise this year. On Black Friday, the popular shopping day on Nov. 27 after the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday, a total of 185,345 applicants were processed through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, a 5.5 percent increase from the year before.
The Pew Research Center found last December that 57 percent of Americans say they believe owning a gun helps protect people from crime, up from 48 percent in 2012. The rest said owning a gun would put personal safety at risk.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Saturday December 12 2015, @06:46PM
So nobody blinks twice when Christian terrorists..
STFU, it is obvious why you troll as an AC because you know you would be ashamed to say such stupid things in public where the shame would follow you.
Muslims are 1% of America and account for a full half of all deaths due to terror incidents. When you can show me a Christian sect with a similar propensity to mindless violence I shall join you in political action to take stern measures to make sure they understand that if they can't learn to police their own better that they should expect FBI agents and hidden cameras in their churches and other extraordinary measures. There is precedent, the FBI did infiltrate churches back when the Democrats were getting a little too murderey with their Terror Wing (The KKK). Islam currently wants to have it both ways, to declare that any monitoring of their activities is wrong and at the same time that they can't be expected to deal with their violent fringe. I say fuck you, pick one of three choices and do it before we pick for you: clean your own problem up, let the FBI do it for you or begin out migration with a vengeance.
I have no intention of being forced into living in a police state because 1% can't/won't coexist. If throwing every one of them out of the country is what it ends up requiring to allow the other 99% to live in peace then so be it. Like most serious issues, approaching it with a clear mind, clearly stating one's position and making all understand the will to act exists brings peace. If they understand their dream of the black flag of jihad flying over our lands is simply NOT happening, most will settle down and assimilate or leave. Either is acceptable.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @07:02PM
> Muslims are 1% of America and account for a full half of all deaths due to terror incidents
STFU, it is obvious you are just using bad statistics to justify your bigotry. The number of "terror incidents" in the US is so goddamn small - 28 in the last 14 years of which only 8 were by muslims - that anyone who claims to find meaning in it is just trying to justify their own bigotry. This is soylent we do understand math here, don't try to bullshit us with your innumeracy. 8 people out of a million-plus is 0.0008% The other 99.9992% is a hell of a lot more meaningful.
Meanwhile there were ~400,000 deaths by gun in that same time period. If you want to get worked up over a cultural problem, focus on the culture that's killing many orders of magnitude more people.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 12 2015, @07:57PM
Mr. Morris was talking out his ass a little bit, but you're an absolute fucking idiot. 8 out of 28 incidents is a very significant percentagle of terrorist acts that have to be attributed to a very small part of the population. Yes, Islam is a problem, ya idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:35PM
Runaway joins the innumeracy brigade! We all suspected you never graduated from high school.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @09:06PM
And in the same period 1.23 million people in the US died due to alcohol. Over 4 million people died due to alcohol in the EU in that same time period. Europe wide that number is two million higher still. Yet I am sure you are going to kick back with some two buck chuck and rant about how dangerous guns are and how wonderful the world would be if we had a prohibition against them.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday December 12 2015, @10:16PM
I don't get the morning talking points email, maybe I'm just behind the curve. But I thought the NYT was considered a reliable news source. I'm basing my reasoning on a chart they printed showing "Deaths from extremist attacks since 9/11" that puts Islam in a tie with everything else. Of course they were lying by omission by neglecting to point out the 99% of the population contributing to the "other than Islam" count vs the 1% for Islam but that doesn't change their numbers as shown.
Meanwhile there were ~400,000 deaths by gun in that...
Most of whom are people who do not matter shooting other people who do not matter. Your side generally gets to decide what matters and has decided poor inner city youths of color shooting others of the same description is not newsworthy. For example you probably do not even know about the mass shooting recently in New Orleans at Bunny Friend Playground. Local coverage,a few quiet mentions in the greater media but no national OUTRAGE. Because they don't matter to the people who decide what matters. Bluntly, they do not matter to NBC, the NYT, etc. Black Lives do not Matter unless the corpses provides a good platform to stand on and demagogue. This is self evidently true, it is true because of the conscious decisions of Progressive "thought leaders" and yet you will refuse to step up and own it. You will in fact, if you bother to reply, display all three Laws of SJW in that you will lie, double down and project your own racism yet again.
So after a detour to administer a beatdown, those shootings will not cause a stampede into a police state. Islamic terror against middle class government workers in CA will if it becomes regular enough people demand that "something be done."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @10:22PM
> But I thought the NYT was considered a reliable news source.
It totally is. In fact, just yesterday I saw a chart they printed that said jmorris was personally responsible for half of those deaths.
::rolleyes::