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Gun sales are spiking... Why is that?

Gun sales are spiking... Why is that?

  • People feel the need to protect themselves.

    Votes: 7 13.0%

  • People feel the need to get one while they can (fear losing the ability).

    Votes: 11 20.4%

  • Some of both.

    Votes: 29 53.7%

  • Other reason(s).

    Votes: 7 13.0%
  • Total voters
    54
  • Poll closed .
Grim17 said:
I think that there have always been millions of Americans over the years who didn't own a gun because they never felt it to be an imminent need, but were always confident that if the day came that they did feel an imminent need to own one, they would be able to easily purchase one. All that has changed since Obama took office and I think the spike in gun sales are directly due to the fear many people now have, that if they wait until they feel the need to own a gun for protection, it might be too late to get one.

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It only takes 4 minutes (or less) for it to be too late.
 
TurtleDude said:
yeah I heard that back in 94 from people who told me it was stupid to stock up on normal capacity magazines. Some of those people were the ones paying 140 bucks for stuff I bought for 15 before the clinton ban went into effect.
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see I just don't think the spike has to do with people who are worried about gun control laws being expanded. I think the spike is coming from people who are trying to protect themselves and are worried about getting caught in a situation - terrorism related or otherwise - where they'll need to use it but won't have it.

the reason I say that that is driven by paranoia is because these people are no more likely to face that danger now than they were 6 months ago. I don't think everyone who buys a gun is paranoid, but when you're talking about an increase in sales I think it is fear of an attack (which is a paranoid fear, imo) that's driving it.
 
Car sales are also up.
It is the sign of a better economy.
People have more disposable income now.
 
TurtleDude said:
so the 1994 gun ban never happened? CT didn't ban 10+ round magazines? the dems didn't ban future MG sales in 1986? California NY, MD don't have idiotic magazine limits?

really?
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Are paying attention to current political climate? Even simple legislation that closes loopholes falls flat on its face. The idea that some boogeyman is going to come in the middle of the night and take your guns is only for the paranoid (which granted, are a lot of gun owners)...

BTW... paranoia is irrational fear, almost to the point of being delusional.
 
TurtleDude said:
If the banoids in the press (see the NYT bangasm after the recent California Shooting) and in public office didn't scream bans overtime there is a shooting (99% of which wouldn't have been impacted by the laws the banoids propose) maybe the "rabid right" wouldn't be able to exploit the "fear"

you all haven't figured out that the reason why people buy guns is because the BANOID left has been screaming for gun bans after every publicized shooting
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And you haven't figured out that people are people all over the planet (regardless of what nation they're in), and that the more easily guns are available, the more that bad people will get guns and kill people because guns make it so much easier to kill people. You haven't figured out that once one digs past the veneer of society, Americans are NO different from any other human beings on the planet.

The easier it is for crazies and evil people to get guns, the more they will get those guns...and the more people they will kill those guns. What is it about that, that's so doggone hard for y'all to grasp?
 
Glen Contrarian said:
And you haven't



figured out that people are people all over the planet (regardless of what nation they're in), and that the more easily guns are available, the more that bad people will get guns and kill people because guns make it so much easier to kill people. You haven't figured out that once one digs past the veneer of society, Americans are NO different from any other human beings on the planet.

The easier it is for crazies and evil people to get guns, the more they will get those guns...and the more people they will kill those guns. What is it about that, that's so doggone hard for y'all to grasp?
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Horsecrap

and besides in a free society, we err on the side of good people being able to exercise their rights even if that means a few assholes abuse those rights rather than what you want-lots of innocent people having their rights flushed down the toilet so you can pretend you all have done something to keep a few inept killers from getting a gun ASAP.

what about freedom is so unfathomable to those in the banoid conspiracy against our rights?

You do understand that given a choice-I want every good person to be able to enjoy their rights even if that means a few scum bags (who would get guns any way) can slip through the crack and buy a gun legally versus what you want. Millions deprived of their rights in order to merely slightly inconvenience some hard core murderers
 
upsideguy said:
Are paying attention to current political climate? Even simple legislation that closes loopholes falls flat on its face. The idea that some boogeyman is going to come in the middle of the night and take your guns is only for the paranoid (which granted, are a lot of gun owners)...

BTW... paranoia is irrational fear, almost to the point of being delusional.
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There is no loophole

NEXT

Paranoia-losing bodily control over the thought some people own guns
 
Phys251 said:
Fear-mongering, is what. Runs on guns are often fear-induced.

If most gun enthusiasts gave a lot more deference to actual, documented abuses of liberty rather than theoretical, contrived ones, I would listen a lot closer to what they have to say.
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It is the left wing anti-gun crowd that is fear-mongering. Every time there is a shooting, they figuratively run to the top of the mountain and screech "Gun control! We must have gun control!"
 
ObamacareFail said:
It is the left wing anti-gun crowd that is fear-mongering. Every time there is a shooting, they figuratively run to the top of the mountain and screech "Gun control! We must have gun control!"
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If the banoids didn't engage in a pavlovian Bangasm jihad every time there is some nutcase killer, the NRA and gun makers never would enjoy the massive sales and contributions that come from the proposed bangasms. Banoids cannot help it-years ago, a Young mormon man went to NYC to watch the US Open tennis tournament and was brutally murdered by some thugs on the subway. Then banoid Mayor Dinkhead screamed that the city needed more gun control

The Mormon boy had been stabbed to death
 
ObamacareFail said:
It is the left wing anti-gun crowd that is fear-mongering. Every time there is a shooting, they figuratively run to the top of the mountain and screech "Gun control! We must have gun control!"
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Their motives are not honest. If they really cared about firearm violence, they would direct their efforts at such things as solving inner city gang violence and fixing our revolving door criminal justice system.
 
radcen said:
Gun sales are spiking... Why is that?
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Some of both but mostly due to the fear of losing that ability.This seems to be the trend anytime there is a mass shooting and anti-2nd amendment politicians open their mouths about wanting to ban this or that.If we had a pro-2nd amendment president then these spikes in gun sales would not be happening.
 
jamesrage said:
Some of both but mostly due to the fear of losing that ability.This seems to be the trend anytime there is a mass shooting and anti-2nd amendment politicians open their mouths about wanting to ban this or that.If we had a pro-2nd amendment president then these spikes in gun sales would not be happening.
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I'd settle for a neutral 2A Pres, doesn't need to be pro. Obama says he doesn't want to take people's guns, but I flat out don't believe him. I think he would if he thought he could.
 
TurtleDude said:
so the 1994 gun ban never happened? CT didn't ban 10+ round magazines? the dems didn't ban future MG sales in 1986? California NY, MD don't have idiotic magazine limits?

really?
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1994 was 21 years ago. Absolutely, let me repeat, absolutely no evidence such a thing could pass in the current congress. You really need to relax on this as its a non-issue. High blood pressure is not good for you. Worry about stuff that matters, such trying to get a Republican elected. Though again, the political climate is such that such isn't a probability, at least it remains a possibility.
 
radcen said:
I'd settle for a neutral 2A Pres, doesn't need to be pro. Obama says he doesn't want to take people's guns, but I flat out don't believe him. I think he would if he thought he could.
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All anyone has to do is look at what Obama is saying to see that he is lying when he says he doesn't want to take anybody's guns.He is praising countries that took peoples guns, whines how other developed nations don't have the same mass shooting we have which is usually followed by rhetoric for more gun control.Someone who doesn't want to take our guns away wouldn't be praising the draconian gun laws in those countries.

Obama Praised Australia's Gun Laws After Oregon Shooting
Addressing media today, U.S. President Barack Obama said the American people had become "numb" to such violence, pushing the case for gun law reform and praising gun control legislation in Australia and Great Britain.
“We know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have managed to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours, Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours," he said.
“So we know there are ways to prevent it.”
 
Nearly every day we see uncontrolled violence everywhere in the country. The police try to keep order but they have to fight not only criminals but the liberals in the courts and judicial systems, along with hyperliberal lawyers in groups like the ACLU.

People don't feel safe, they don't feel protected by either the police or the government, and so they resort to protecting themselves! What a hell of a rotten mess this whole thing has turned into. How did this happen? As the old Sicilian proverb goes, "Fish stinks from the head down." Thanks, Obama! :hm
 
Pollycy said:
Nearly every day we see uncontrolled violence everywhere in the country. The police try to keep order but they have to fight not only criminals but the liberals in the courts and judicial systems, along with hyperliberal lawyers in groups like the ACLU.

People don't feel safe, they don't feel protected by either the police or the government, and so they resort to protecting themselves! What a hell of a rotten mess this whole thing has turned into. How did this happen? As the old Sicilian proverb goes, "Fish stinks from the head down." Thanks, Obama! :hm
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What was he supposed to do ??

Lie about yellow cake and then attack somebody else ??
 
jamesrage said:
All anyone has to do is look at what Obama is saying to see that he is lying when he says he doesn't want to take anybody's guns.He is praising countries that took peoples guns, whines how other developed nations don't have the same mass shooting we have which is usually followed by rhetoric for more gun control.Someone who doesn't want to take our guns away wouldn't be praising the draconian gun laws in those countries.

Obama Praised Australia's Gun Laws After Oregon Shooting
Addressing media today, U.S. President Barack Obama said the American people had become "numb" to such violence, pushing the case for gun law reform and praising gun control legislation in Australia and Great Britain.
“We know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have managed to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours, Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours," he said.
“So we know there are ways to prevent it.”
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13 months and 9 days and counting ... ... ... .
 
The gun lobby and their supporters have been on a campaign for a long time now to whip up frenzied paranoia that the mean old gunmint is coming for your guns so you better get em while you still can.

Its good business and helps keep the entire gun lobby & its connection to right wing politics going on and on and on and on.
 
Riveroaks said:
What was he supposed to do ??

Lie about yellow cake and then attack somebody else ??
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No. Instead Obama spent all his time breaking the law by overthrowing the legitimate government of Libya, sending it into a violent Islamic chaos and lying about Obamcare. He also put a lot of effort into lying about getting us out of Afghanistan and laying the groundwork for keeping the U. S. mired in that Islamo-pesthole until at least the year 2024: Obama's 'Midnight' Deal Will Stretch Afghan War to 2024 | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

With a president like this, who can feel safe, or feel that they can depend on anything?! So, we lock our doors, and load our guns. When all you can rely on is a bunch of self-serving, policy-making bastards in a disorganized government bureaucracy, you learn to rely on yourself!
 
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upsideguy said:
1994 was 21 years ago. Absolutely, let me repeat, absolutely no evidence such a thing could pass in the current congress. You really need to relax on this as its a non-issue. High blood pressure is not good for you. Worry about stuff that matters, such trying to get a Republican elected. Though again, the political climate is such that such isn't a probability, at least it remains a possibility.
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friends of mine in banoid states are getting screwed over by Democrap scum bag politicians like that asshole in Connecticut
 
I just bought more guns. :D


Why?



Cuz I wanted to, and I could. :D
 
My Girlfriend hates guns. She will not allow one in the house.

However, a couple days after the San Bernadino murder by Muslim extremists, a bunch of us went to a mall for dinner. She shocked me saying that for the he first time in her life that she felt safer that some of the males, especially those with military experience, were likely carrying a concealed weapon.

I'm not getting into some justification for carrying weapons but her 'perception' was that she felt safer. I don't have a handgun...not getting one...and will keep my 22 hidden in the garage. Anyways, if my anti gun girlfriend is softening on the issue, I'm not surprisedif more fence sitting Americans will be getting a gun in the near future.
 
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