Posted on 06/17/2020 10:40:54 AM PDT by rktman
The Los Angeles Times editorial board suggests the current surge in gun sales is “madness.”
It delivered this observation after describing month after month of record breaking firearm background checks during coronavirus shutdowns.
They noted:
Since the start of the pandemic, Americans are buying more guns. The FBI says it conducted a record 3.7 million background checks for would-be gun buyers, a loose proxy for firearm sales, in March as lockdown orders spread across the nation. In April the checks dropped to 2.9 million but rebounded to 3.1 million in May. The monthly average for 2019 — itself a record year for background checks — was 2.4 million. So even as we get fresh studies connecting possession of firearms with increased risk of gun violence, accidental shootings (usually by children) and suicides, we are adding more firearms to the nation’s already numbingly large privately owned arsenal of some 300 million guns (no reliable count is available) owned by about a third of the population.
The board added, “This is madness.”
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LA Times Editorial Board: Surge in Gun Sales Is ‘Madness’
If we are you learn from history, we are shown that when leftists get a hold of guns, they don’t become more freedom loving and conservative. They tend to point the guns at people who they disagree with and kill them. It starts out small; ones and twos, then grows in to killing fields. Don’t think it won’t happen here; it has already begun.
You see madness in the streets, cities burning around you, mobs vandalizing and looting... time to ammo up.
Some of them are.
This surge is wearing me out.
The line never ends.
People are waiting over an hour to get to the counter to buy whatever we have left.
Try to find any buckshot lately? It’s scarce.
Because roving bands of leftist thugs should make you feel safe and secure.
Rioting = cool
Defund/disband police = shoooo progressivez
Buy guns to protect yourself = MADNESS!!!
Gee, ya think all the rioting, looting and acts of arson might be a reason why?
Has June so far been the biggest 2 weeks ever, re new gun permits?
Judging from sales at our store and the backlog of delays from background checks, I’d say yes.
11 f. Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
I like the way you think.
No the riots and the government doing nothing was madness. This is protection from madness.
Between the recent insanity of the riots, the overblown and irrational steps taken for Covid 19 (along with a s**tload of lying), not to mention the Left/Deep Statethose pretty much licking their chops at the idea of punishing those who dared to elect and support Donald Trump, I would say its a very rational reaction to the madness.
I have the impression there is a good chunk of the population wanting a reckoning 9n the Left/Deep State for all the crop they've heaped on people who just want to live their lives.
What is going to be the precipitating event, I wonder?
Actions have consequences. When liberals raise taxes, like New York, people move out to lower tax states when possible.
When police cannot protect, individuals who wish to have protection from various crimes and assaults buy guns and ammo.
What don’t the stupid media and stupid liberals understand?
Saw one the other day, explaining to the clerk that he wanted a brand new pump gun, and where could he get the barrel sawn off? The clerk was rolling his eyes. No gun shop or pawn store can keep stock.
There will either be a war, before Autumn, or some very good deals on some high prices pistols.
Thanks, that is what seems to happening in N. California.
A guy we know in an East Bay area, stopped by a Walmart to buy some ammo, and their shelves were bare.
He asked the clerk if Walmart execs had told them to send back their ammo and guns.
The Clerk said, “No, customers bought any ammo that was left on the shelves, and there is nothing in the supply “train”.
One of my wife’s friends back in the midwest ran into the same empty shelves at every store, where she and her husband tried to buy ammo.
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