Posted on 12/30/2001 11:02:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After Sept. 11, many Americans did a highly predictable thing. They bought at least one gun to make certain they could protect their families, their property and themselves from terrorists who might be lurking nearby.
FBI statistics revealed that firearms sales jumped by as much as 22 percent right after the attacks, peaking in October with more than 1 million pistols, shotguns and assault rifles sold. There is now, it seems, a lethal weapon (not counting knives and ball bats) for every man, woman and child in the United States. How comforting.
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It is a good thing, too. With his or her new shotgun, or converted AK47 or handgun that fits in a pocket or purse, the average American is ready for those new terrorist attacks that Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge keeps warning us are bound to occur.
Be prepared son, be prepared.
Taliban supporter (they don't all wear turbans, you know) approaches our door under the pretext of borrowing a cup of sugar, is he in for a surprise!
Comedy and sarcasm is not your strongpoint.
Never mind that putting more guns in circulation will increase the number that end up being shipped overseas to people who actually are terrorists and use their purchases here to spread death and destruction everywhere.
Where in the blue hell you get that idea from? Dan, a full auto AK-47 costs about $50 over in South Asia. It's illegal here without a class 3 BTW, but why pay $300 or so for a semi-auto copy, when I can get 6 of the real thing for the same price without shipping costs. Huh, explain that genius.
Never mind that the statistics are bound to show a rise in accidental deaths
They have been dropping since 1979. Dan, you are bald faced liar.
National Rifle Association, which actually believes one can end a smallpox attack with a magnum.
Pure personal attack with no basis in reality.
They represent the gun manufacturers.
No. The manufacurers have their own lobby. The NRA represents 4.5-5 million people.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has plenty of documentation of such transactions, which occur because of a loophole that exempts private sales at gun shows from background checks.
Put up or shut the hell up.
There also is strong evidence that most crimes are committed these days with weapons bought at the hundreds of gun shows that take place each weekend.
Where is your source for that???? What evidence? The proven liars at VPC?? Is that it? I think it is. I know. I read that so called report.
How much better it would have been in the aftermath of Sept. 11 for Americans, rather than rushing out mindlessly to purchase ineffective, feel-good weapons, to have demanded the tightening of controls to help keep firearms from those who terrorize the lives of half the world
You say they are so ineffective and feel good, then say they terrorize half the world. That's a contridiction.
Want to strike a blow against terrorism? Demand that Congress end the gun-show exemption.
They used boxcutters, son. You liars in the ASD(Anti self-defense) movement aren't getting through to the public. They are seeing right through you. That's why your buddy Gore lost.
The "mainstream" media sure is dumb. Any terrorist really gonna spend $300-800 on any non-full-auto gun here in the U.S. and then pay high international freight rates to ship it - and heavy lead and brass - back to their gun-soaked homelands like Lebanon or Afghanistan, where antigun nuts claimed months ago that a full-auto AK-47 goes for $12?
Scandals of antigun politicians and activists - coast to coast
Where do these idiots come from? Are they the product of incest?States that allow concealed carry have seen reductions of violent crime. But I guess we wouldn't to confuse this fellow with facts.
If guns can't protect us from terrorists, than why worry if guns get into the hands of terrorists? If they aren't going to use guns to terrorize us than access to guns is a mute point. And does Dan "the myn" Thomson really think that Pakistani terrorists are coming to America to pay more for less weapon than they can get pilfered from any third world military armory?
In some instances pushers of ignorance are more dangerous than pushers of drugs.
"The percentage of criminals getting guns at gun shows... ? 0.7%"
The truth about the tiny share of guns used in crimes just came from a federal Justice Dept. study - but liberals don't care about the facts!
Fortunately, the peasants of Blue Nation are "voting" about gun issues - and the elites of Blue Nation hate the outcome of this "referendum" with your Visa card!
Hey we gotta stop this. The American gun supply is for us gun nuts who think 100 is just a start.
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Somebody pinch me, I've gone to a happy place.
Where in the blue hell you get that idea from? Dan, a full auto AK-47 costs about $50 over in South Asia.
Price update from China, full auto AK-47 was $50 USD now one pig and two chickens or $23.37 USD! (While supplies last.)
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