OBAMA WORKS HIS MAGIC FOR GUN SALES

Gun Sales Soar After Surge In US Mass Shootings

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Just as was evidenced after the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, after Columbine and Tucson in 2011, and following the theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado in 2012, US gun sales have soared following the mass-shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, which killed 10 people and injured seven others. As The FT reports, gun sales this year could surpass the record set in 2013, when gun purchases surged after the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders.

As The FT reports,

Business has been brisk for Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in North Carolina, since the Oregon community college shooting last week that left 10 people dead, including the 26-year-old suspect.

 

Mr Hyatt saw an even bigger surge in customers after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, before the gunman killed himself.

 

 

However, the calls for tighter gun laws lead to an increase in weapons sales. “Once the public hears the president on the news say we need more gun controls, it tends to drive sales,” said Mr Hyatt, who owns one of the largest gun retailers in the US. “People think, if I don’t get a gun now, it might be difficult to get one in the future. The store is crowded.”

 

“We don’t want our business to be based on tragedy but we have to deal with what we have no control over,” Mr Hyatt said. “And after these shootings and then the calls for tougher gun laws, we see a buying rush.”

In the first nine months of this year, 15.6m of the background checks needed to purchase guns from federally licensed sellers have been processed, compared with the 15.5m applications in the same period in 2013, according to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Strong sales this year have also boosted the earnings for the two of the largest gun manufacturers in the US. Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co have seen their stocks rise this year by over 88% and 67% respectively.

 

 

As Wired wrote back in 2012, the sharp spike in gun sales following mass shootings is not a new occurence and appears to happen for several reasons…

The desire to protect one’s self In many cases, gun shootings followed by 24/7 media coverage prompt citizens to arm themselves, according to testimonies. In Aurora, for instance, Jake Meyers of Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo told The Post shoppers cited self-protection when checking out new weapons. “A lot of it is people saying, ‘I didn’t think I needed a gun, but now I do,’ ” Meyers said. “When it happens in your backyard, people start reassessing — ‘Hey, I go to the movies.'”

 

The fear of stricter gun laws Another logical factor is that gun owners’ or soon-to-be-gun owners’ sense a tide of gun control regulations following a massacre and seek to purchase guns ahead of fast-moving laws. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, spoke to this following a 60 percent uptick in gun sales in the aftermath of the Tucson shootings in 2011. “Some Americans fear tougher gun control laws in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack so they want to stock up now,” he told Politico. “What it shows is maybe gun owners in Arizona and these other states feel that there’s going to be some change in the law, which is what I hope our elected officials” trying to enact. Obviously, that fear has been unfounded. Since coming into office, Obama has been virtually silent on the issue of gun control, despite the protestations of liberals.

 

The feeling of uncertainty It’s important to remember, spikes in guns sales don’t just coincide with shooting sprees. They also coincide with violent events of any kind, as Fredrick Kunkle at The Washington Post reported. “People also rushed to buy guns after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles and the breakdown of order in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” That has led some industry experts and law enforcement officials to point to a general feeling of uncertainty as a driver of gun buying habits. “People often buy firearms during periods of uncertainty,” Gary Kleck, a researcher at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, told the paper.

As Pew’s most recent research found, America remains divided over the ‘guns’ issue:

Pew’s latest survey, conducted in July this year, found that opinions had remained largely unchanged since the Sandy Hook massacre.

 

Almost eight in 10 people surveyed supported laws to prevent people suffering from mental illness buying firearms, while 70 per cent backed the creation of a database on gun sales and almost 60 per cent wanted to see assault weapons banned.

 

“The public continues to be more evenly divided in fundamental attitudes about whether it is more important to control gun ownership or to protect the right of Americans to own guns,” Pew’s report said.

 

“Currently, 50 per cent say it is more important to control gun ownership, while 47 per cent say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.”


 

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Everytime the government proves it cannot protect the people by having a mass murder take place in a gun free zone (established by government to protect people from mass murder) it uses that proof as an excuse call for more and more control of the peoples guns.

Increasingly people are waking up and seeing through this.

Which is why gun sales soar after the calls are made.

But, in truth, those gun control laws that are being called for are not to protect the people from attack, they are to protect an out of control and dictatorial government from any resistance from the people they want to dictate to.

ragman
ragman

Every gun this worthless fucker had was traced back to him or his mother. Get yer guns via private sale if possible. Estate sales are often overlooked. They can be an excellent source of off-the-record gun purchases.

Hope@ZeroKelvin
Hope@ZeroKelvin

All the yammering about background checks after the Oregon shootings has ignores several basic facts:

1) OREGON ENACTED A GUN-SHOW “PRIVATE BUYER” BACKGROUND CHECK THIS YEAR. It requires a mental health and background check for exchanges between two private parties (SB941).

2) This madman didn’t buy his gun at a gun show or from a private party, he bought it LEGALLY from a gun store.

3) There has not been ONE talking head on teevee who can articulate exactly WHAT law would have prevented this shooting, not one.

The libprogs evidently belive that the only way to avoid violence in our socieity is for every citizen leave their home accompanied by their own personal state certified psychiatrist and police officer. The very idea that people might want to take responsiblity for their own lives and safety is evidently anathema to them.

It will yet another sickening spectacle to see Obongo travel there this weekend to dance in the blood of these murdered students, especially when everybody in Oregon does not want him to come.

Mebbe somebody should divert AF1 to Chicago and he can address the 15-20 people killed there EVERY WEEKEND.

Of course, those people are black youths and I guess #BlackLivesMatter ONLY when white college students are massacred.

Or something.

harry p.
harry p.

HZK, those black lives in Chiraq dont matter because there is nothing to gain politically from the narrative so the silence will remain deafening.

Billy
Billy

Stupid “CAPTCHA” bullshit got me again…

Imma try and break up my rebuttal post to see if it will go…

Billy
Billy

As Pew’s most recent research found, America remains divided over the ‘guns’ issue:

No shit? Thank God for Pew… without them, I would just be bumble-fucking around in ignorance..

Pew’s latest survey, conducted in July this year, found that opinions had remained largely unchanged since the Sandy Hook massacre.

I can “survey” anyone I want as well and get the numbers that will support my argument too…

Almost eight in 10 people surveyed supported laws to prevent people suffering from mental illness buying firearms

Oh yeah?

RIIIINNNGGG!

“Hello?”
“Hi, I’m from Pew. Do you support mentally ill people having access to guns?”
“Wait.. what? Hell no!”
“Thank you”

Same as asking someone “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”… completely loaded question. Of course nobody “supports” having mentally ill people having access to firearms, but the machinery already exists to deny someone a constitutionally guaranteed right via having them declared mentally incapable or a danger to themselves and those around them… they are assessed, and then a Judge is required to pronounce them mentally unfit based on the evidence, and then they are institutionalized. Obviously, they do not have access to firearms while institutionalized…

End Part 1.

Billy
Billy

Part II.

———————————

However, what these assholes are seeking to do is to have anyone the Government doesn’t like be declared mentally deficient and then strip them of their IIA rights automatically. Next time you hear their bullshit, ask yourself some questions:

– Exactly who is it that gets to declare a person mentally unfit? A genuine, bonafied psychiatrist? Or some government drone in an office somewhere?

– If a genuine, bonafied psychiatrist, then who does he work for? Where does he draw his paycheck?

– If a drone, then what gives them the authority – being less than a rank amateur and not even within hailing distance of being a genuine doctor – to strip anyone of their constitutionally-guaranteed rights?

– What exactly would classify a person “mentally unfit”? 40 years ago, homosexuality was declared a “mental illness”, until political pressure forced a change. Don’t like authority very much? Oh, you must have “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”!! No guns for you. Don’t like certain people? Oh, raaaaycisssm is a mental illness now… the APA said so. No guns for you either… Get enough doctors together and coerce them enough, and you can get anything you want declared a “mental illness”… wait and see if this shit doesn’t happen.

– Having someone declared mentally ill begs all sorts of questions: If they go through enough “therapy”, and are declared mentally healthy, do they get their IIA rights restored? What about if they’re completely sober and cogent while on certain medications? Do they get to use their IIA rights so long as they take their meds?

…while 70 per cent backed the creation of a database on gun sales and almost 60 per cent wanted to see assault weapons banned.

– SCOTUS has already ruled that keeping records of who owns what is unconstitutional and unlawful. Creation of a “gun sales database” will almost certainly be challenged and shot down in court as unconstitutional based on previous cases. Complete waste of time and only shows the staggering, breath-taking pig-ignorance of those who were ‘surveyed’…

– “Assault weapons” DO NOT FUCKING EXIST! It is a manufactured term. No army anywhere in the world owns ‘assault weapons’, and furthermore, would not use them to ‘assault’ anything with, even if they DID own them… If you read about what exactly an “assault weapon” is, you’ll find out that a) nobody can agree on what an “assault weapon” exactly is, and b) most of those who opine on what an “assault weapon” is will focus on cosmetic features only – not one feature dedicated to the actual function of the firearm.

Which can all be boiled down to “It looks scary, so we must ban it!”…

End Part II.

Billy
Billy

Part III.

_________________________________

So where did this made-up, completely bullshit term “assault weapons” come from? Let’s follow the muhfuggin bread crumbs…

Some basic research leads to one agitating leftist fuckstick Eskimo named JOSH SUGARMANN. This agitating knob-polisher founded the Violence Policy Center – a “nonprofit” bunch that gets their funding mostly from The Joyce Foundation.

Who the fuck is “The Joyce Foundation”?

Here: The Joyce Foundation is a charitable foundation based in the city of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States and operating principally in the broader Great Lakes region. It was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean, the sole heir of the successful Joyce family of Clinton, Iowa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Foundation

Guess who served on the Board of Directors for “the Joyce Foundation”?

Obama.

No shit and for reals.

So who the fuck was Beatrice Joyce Kean? By all accounts, she was the sole heir to a massive timber/lumber/plywood empire that had amassed hundreds of millions of dollars. Apparently, she was a nice person.

However, an Eskimo named David Horowitz has this to say about The Joyce Foundation:

Beatrice Joyce Kean established the Joyce Foundation in 1948 after accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in the lumber industry (via family-owned timberlands, plywood and saw mills, and wholesale and retail building-material distribution facilities). During her lifetime, most of Ms. Kean’s modestly small philanthropic gifts were to apolitical recipients such as hospitals and health organizations. After her death in 1972, a professional staff took control of the Foundation and began to move it toward the political left. At first, universities and cultural institutions were added to its roster of grant recipients. A few years later, radical environmentalist and conservation groups entered the picture, as eventually did organizations dedicated to social justice, prison reform, and increased funding for government and social services, particularly for minorities. A notable recent member of the Joyce Foundation’s Board of Directors was Barack Obama, who ran successfully as the Democratic candidate for an Illinois Senate seat in 2004.

Today the Joyce Foundation seeks to “suppor[t] efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture.” The Foundation has six main Giving Programs toward which it directs its philanthropy:

Well, that sounds all fuzzy and huggy and shit, but check this out:

(b) The Anti-Gun Program seeks to drive small gun dealerships out of business by placing the firearms industry completely under consumer product health and safety oversight. It misrepresents the findings of research on gun-related deaths by failing to distinguish between gun-related deaths among inner-city gang members, where the death rates from shootings are astronomical, and gun-related deaths among members of the general population, which are relatively rare. As a result, it depicts gun violence as a national epidemic, thereby creating a perceived justification for what it hopes will be the erosion of Second Amendment rights.

So, in other words, this nice lady founded an altruistic organization to help people – being as once she was dead – there being no heir – the money wouldn’t benefit anyone except the government. A bunch of radical leftist assholes took over the Foundation and have been using this nice lady’s money to force their poisonous, toxic political agenda on the rest of us ever since…

Who sits on the Board of Directors of The Joyce Foundation?

Well, all one has to do is type in “Joyce Foundation Board of Directors joo-ish” into any search engine and one comes up with a predictably disproportionate number of Eskimos on the board… I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from “Not Surprise”…

“The public continues to be more evenly divided in fundamental attitudes about whether it is more important to control gun ownership or to protect the right of Americans to own guns,” Pew’s report said.

Getting 99% of my neighbors together to “vote” to have my rights rescinded, my shit stolen and my house burned to the ground is still tyranny, armed robbery under Color of Law and Arson… You want the fucking Constitution changed? We have no less than THREE ways for that to happen – write up your own Amendment and submit it for consideration to Congress. If it’s worthy, it will find sponsors and the amendment process will be put into motion…

Rights are not dependent upon opinion polls, motherfuckers…

End Part III.

Billy
Billy

Part IV.

“Currently, 50 per cent say it is more important to control gun ownership, while 47 per cent say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.”

I don’t give a fuck if it’s 99.99% of everyone you asked.

Rights are not dependent upon public opinion polls. I personally thing that some people in this country shouldn’t be allowed a public venue to spew their toxic bilge on the rest of us – but they have that right. I don’t have to fucking like it. I just have to deal with it.

In closing – yeah, I know this has been a long post for me – those who sit and wait, salivating for the next heinous act to occur so they can foist their pre-written toxic political agenda on the rest of us, they are fucking GHOULS. They use the bodies of the dead and the outrage generated by these heinous acts as lubrication for their poisonous, treasonous bills – often before the bodies are even cold and the number of the dead is known…

They’re fucking parasites. Vultures. I don’t know which is more morally and ethically repulsive – the crazies who commit such heinous acts, or those shameless opportunists that are morally and ethically bankrupt enough to attempt to get traction for their shit bills by using the dead and resultant outrage to grease their shit bill’s passage…

End.

harry p.
harry p.

Great comments Billy, bunch of cocksuckers are using that womans money to push their own agenda, like he govt doesnt have enough money to do that already.
The only thing that would have improved it would have been if you used “Fin” instead of “End”.
Bravo

AKAnon
AKAnon

@ Billy, Part II: “Do you feel a need to protect yourself with a firearm?-Paranoia, no guns for you”. See-anyone who wants one can’t have one-mental illness, you know. Gun control problem solved.

bb

Billy ,you’re on a roll today. Excellent posts.

Lysander
Lysander

@ Billy….Exactly Goddamn right!

Billy
Billy

Thanks y’all…

Hey, check this out…

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ragman
ragman

Billy: the Fascist Ghoul sounds exactly like…….Hillary Clinton!

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