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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:11PM
> That kind of crap comes straight out of tribal animist religions.
What? You think Christianity doesn't have a long history with witchcraft? Never heard of the salem witch trials?
You should take a course in logic. You keep pounding that scotsman fallacy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:19PM
Christianity is ANTI-witchcraft. Sacrificing babies for whatever purpose is more akin to paganism and witch craft than it is to Christianity. The more you say, the more obvious that you really know nothing about religion. You are incapable of determining where various ritualistic practices came from, making you incapable of holding an intelligent discussion on the subject.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:34PM
> Christianity is ANTI-witchcraft.
Wow, the denial in you is strong. I'm curious what happened in your brain when you read the words "Salem witch trials" did you temporarily black out?
Here is some more black-out drugs for you:
Exodus 22:18 - Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 20:27 - A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them
It is even funnier that you keep accusing me of knowing nothing about religion. You don't even know your own scripture. Which is actually not surprising, fundies of all religions are the ones with the least knowledge about their own religion.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:42PM
Salem witch trial - a group of rural fools who allowed their superstitions to get the better of them, and they took their frustrations out on members of the community. The "witch trials" were investigated, and condemned, by the church. The country bumpkins ASSumed authorities which weren't theirs to exercise.
No church endorsed that witch hunt.
Run along and play now, you're growing tiresome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:48PM
> The "witch trials" were investigated, and condemned, by the church
You seriously think the salem witch trials were an isolated event?
That shit happened all over europe and the new world. [wikipedia.org]
> Run along and play now, you're growing tiresome.
That cognitive dissonance really takes the energy out of you doesn't it?
It is so hard having to deny what's right in front of you -- your religion is just as shitty as all the others.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:52PM
ROFLMAO - I'll give you a taste of that "cognitive dissonance". Remember the last time I locked you in that round room, and told you to pee in the corner? You would still be walking in circles looking for the corner if Mom hadn't told me to let you out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @03:56PM
Let the record show, runaway is running away from the debate because the facts are overwhelmingly against him.
Fucking coward.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:23PM
Debate? What debate? First, you have to acquire some knowledge with which to debate.
Don't go into the old testament and dredge up the "Law". You dig right into the new testament, and find someplace where human sacrfice is condoned. Find where Christ commanded that witches be put to death. Try to find where Christ or his apostles informed us that AIDS could be cured by having sex with a virgin. Find where Christ commanded that adultresses should be put to death. You can't find any of that stuff. If you make the effort, you can find some of that in the OLD TESTAMENT. You can certainly find it in the Quran. And, you'll find a bunch of that, and even crazier shit in animist religions, which proliferate in Africa.
If you want to debate Christianity's merits side-by-side with other religions, you've got to get into the book, and debate Christianity. No Easter holiday, no Christmas holiday, no animal sacrifice, no human sacrifice - if you wish to debate anything, pick the subject, then STAY on subject.
Otherwise, I'm locking you in that round room again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:28PM
> Don't go into the old testament and dredge up the "Law".
Dodge and weave man. You claimed the origins were in animism, clearly not true, the origins are in the old testament.
You show where Jesus said "suffer a witch to live." He didn't.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:49PM
If you're a believer, and you believe that Adam and Eve came first, then yes, Judaism preceded animism.
If, however, you're more into science, I believe the case has been made that animism, among other religions, preceded Judaism. Baal, among others, is referenced by some of the oldest of the old testament prophets and judges.
As for Christianity, we didn't inherit any "occult" teachings from the Jews. Instead, we borrowed stupid things like easter bunnies and Christmas trees and All Hallowed's Night from pagan religions.