I blame this guy.
Posted on 12/04/2015 9:07:15 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
IN the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, which until yesterday was considered the worst mass shooting of the decade in the US, Americans did a few things.
The shooting left the nation on edge, and it now finds itself in the same position following the slaughter of 14 people when married couple Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik entered a Christmas party armed with legally purchased guns and sprayed the room with legally obtained bullets.
A separate shooting at a Planned Parenthood building in Colorado last week prompted President Barack Obama to share hope the crime would spur more Americans "to do something" to support tighter gun sale controls.
But following these tragedies, guns retailers are expecting another surge. And on the surface, the reason seems ludicrous.
Commentators suggest Americans are now trapped in a gun-buying death spiral, where mass shootings spark talk of lax gun control measures, prompting many to believe they need to go out and buy more guns. Then there's another mass shooting, and on it goes.
"For citizens of such a rich and (hitherto) stable country to be arming themselves at this rate is collective insanity," warns the New Yorker's John Cassidy, describing America's "self-destructive passion for guns" as nothing short of a dilemma.
"America is stuck in a self-reinforcing cycle of gun violence, and things might be about to get worse."
One New York Sheriff even went as far as encouraging handgun owners to take advantage of their constitutional rights, encouraging all citizens who are licensed to carry a firearm to "please do so" in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Yeah We Did!
Liberals are liberals. And even Down Under liberals...
Just. Don’t. Get it.
Pansies are a large part of the problem in western culture.
Gun grabber “logic” is so twisted it gives me a headache to hear it.
It’s like listening to impassioned victims of Stockholm Syndrome arguing desperately, and “logically,” that appeasing a kidnapper is the only way to survive.
It’s the argument of worms, not human beings.
Also FTA...
In more disturbing news, Americans will soon be able to snap up the latest firearms from the comfort of their sofas, with the launch in January of GunTV - a 24-hour weapons shopping channel.
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(sniff) God Bless America. Ain’t this a great country or what?
I hate that effing show and the pansies in it.
Ping!
> shootings spark talk of lax gun control measures
Huh?
sad. Once upon a time the Aussies were known as men. Several decades of socialism has turned too many of them into pansies and they just can’t understand how real MEN behave. Expanding problem in the Anglo phone world.
And there are real muslim threats to Australia. More all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Australia
You’d think Aussies would nut up and recognize these threats. I suspect many do.
This Aussie forgets (or never knew) that American privately owned guns were sent to his British cousins to help protect England after the British army lost most of their weapons at Dunkirk-—damned good thing we have a Constitution that protects our gun ownership Rights——learn History before you run your mouth off-—WW2 vet
Things ARE getting worse, and it's not because of law-abiding citizens being armed.
This dip$#!+ needs better glasses ... he sure can't see America very well.
Yeah, dummy, we're buying guns and ammunition because we have seen what stupid governments (like yours, and New York's, and California's) do to seize power given the opportunity. To hell with gun-grabbers.
Alan Alda was the original Pajama Boi.
Gun violence? If I remember correct, Australia has had a moslem problem also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-03/nsw-police-headquarters-gunman-was-radicalised-youth/6825028
http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/video-muslim-attacks-jew-at-adass-shul-in-melbourne.html/
And THEY believe THEY should be lecturing US?
You know, there might be a lesson in this for the libtards somewhere. If people go into a gun buying frenzy every single time that ‘gun control’ becomes a topic of conversation, then maybe...just maybe...you might want to give the ‘gun control’ horse crap a rest and try to find a different solution.
They even killed the real Crocodile Dundee.
To the author: If there is a wave of robberies, and you go buy a better lock for your door, does that make you irrational?
Oh - and you forgot to mention all the ammo to go with the purchased guns.
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