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posted by takyon on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the smoking-hotcakes dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:56PM (#275524)

    > Maybe because 95% of terrorists are guess what..muslim.

    I'm sure nothing will change your mind because its about the feels not the facts for guys like you. But anyone else reading along should know that both the FBI's terrorism reprots and Europol's terrorism reports say you've got that number reversed.

    FBI: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t [loonwatch.com]
    Europol: Less Than 1% of Terrorist Attacks by Muslims [loonwatch.com]

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @09:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @09:01PM (#275529)

    Loonwatch.com is a blogzine run by a motley group of hate-allergic bloggers to monitor and expose the web’s plethora of anti-Muslim loons, wackos, and conspiracy theorists.

    You are gonna have to come up with something better than whatever the hell a "blogzine run by the hate-allergic" who calls anyone that disagrees with them "a worthless lazy fellow".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @09:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @09:15PM (#275539)

      You are encouraged to go through the FBI and Europol numbers yourself and prove him wrong.
      Of course you can't because resorting to the ad hominem fallacy is what people do when they know they don't have the facts on their side.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @11:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @11:12PM (#275604)

        resorting to the ad hominem fallacy is what people do when they know they don't have the facts on their side.

        Exactly why that loon site is not trustworthy and thus the burden of proof is still on the argument supported by it.