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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) 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::