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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, @10:23PM
There you go, demonstrating your ageist, ableist, male privilege. The great thing about the modern firearm is it the single greatest contributor to equality ever invented. I'd even go so far as to say there would have never even been a general movement to civil rights and equality for all without it. Without the gun you have the strong who do as they will and the weak who must obey. At best you have codes of chivalry to encourage the strong to protect the weak but that doesn't lead to equality.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:57AM
God made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.