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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 etherscythe on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:36PM
Really? I think I see what you're getting at, but on its face I think that "Original Sin" doctrine does say that children are evil by default, possessed by the sin of Adam and Eve. They have to be baptized and brainwashed in a belief they most likely have no compelling evidence for (which they have witnessed personally) to become worthy of first-class citizen status.
Of course, not all Christian sects believe this the same way, but it's an extremely popular religious theory. Religion is not the base cause of the world's problems, but I would say that it is an enabler for the avoidance of critical and progressive thinking. I like freedom of religion, but it needs to be removed as an excuse for failure to face reality.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:53PM
"for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"
Yes, there is the original sin, but there is also the "age of accountability". That age is hard to pin down - some put it as young as 8, others put it after puberty. Children sin, but they aren't held accountable until they reach that hard-to-define magical age. Thus, all children are innocent.
We could just agree that the first time the little bastid gets a woody, we hold him accountable. ;^)
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.