Personal observation: The gun-buying frenzy created by Beltway talk of gun control (21 posts)

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  • Profile picture of limalimamike limalimamike said 6 months ago:

    The sadness of the Sandy Hook tragedy hadn’t even had time to settle before certain people began to point to this tragedy, claiming even more infringement on the 2nd amendment would have stopped the gunman.

    The lap dog media has now successfully painted Lanza’s mother as a gun nut, with only owning possibly 3 guns. Pfft, I personally own 3x that, I am not considered a gun nut. We will never know the truth though, because lately, the lap dog media tends to take it’s freedoms with dead people, ,making up stories that no one can defend.

    Anyway, my wife bought me a specialty gun for clay target shooting for Christmas, an went to pick it up after the 10 day period at a local firearms shop. This was Tuesday at about 2pm. She couldn’t even get into the door. There was not a parking space available for her to park, making her park several businesses away and walking nearly 1/4 of a mile to the gun store. Three hours later, she reached the counter.

    What was one of the most well stocked gun stores in town was described to me by my wife as having empty gun display cases

    This is occurring everywhere across the nation. cheaperthandirt.com, the worlds largest online gun sales website, experienced so much traffic on their website yesterday, that they voluntarily shut it down. These aren’t Christmas gifts either, as the 10 day waiting period puts the purchase of guns yesterday at a December 29th availability.

    If controlling gun sales is what Obama, Feinstein and others want, their spoken words triggered the largest number of privately owned guns purchased in a 3 day history ever in the US,

  • Profile picture of John  Bravo John Bravo said 6 months ago:

    When the government is not capable, or refuses to protect it citizens, then the citizens have a right to protect themselves. That is what we are seeing with these gun purchases…

  • Profile picture of AndyA AndyA said 6 months ago:

    Goofery, I’m sure LLM prefers to be somthing specific like a gun nut as opposed to just a general purpose all around nut. You know, like you.

  • Profile picture of milemarker milemarker said 6 months ago:

    Tell me, what is the rate of rounds per minute a bushmaster .223 can shoot?

    26 dead people in under 20 minutes. More if the teachers don’t barricade the classroom door. Or about the same rate any of the guns you boast of owning can do. Some kids had eleven rounds in them.

  • Profile picture of John  Bravo John Bravo said 6 months ago:

    706 children die every year in drownings. Yet we don’t have a national discussion on child drowings.

    http://kontradictions.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/why-not-renew-the-assault-weapons-ban-well-ill-tell-you/

  • Profile picture of ApolloDawn ApolloDawn said 6 months ago:

    Well, I have to admit that trusting the writing of gun legislation to Bay Area leftists who learned about guns by watching Death Valley Days makes about as much sense as trusting sex education and social policy to the Kern County Tea Party. ;)

  • Profile picture of Uncle Larry Uncle Larry said 6 months ago:

    “about as much sense as trusting sex education and social policy to the Kern County Tea Party”

    …who still believe husbands and wives on TV should be portrayed sleeping in separate beds?

  • Profile picture of AndyA AndyA said 6 months ago:

    Thanks John B for one of the best firearms articles I’ve read lately.

  • Profile picture of milemarker milemarker said 6 months ago:

    John, you didn’t watch CNN Hero of The Year last week. We *do* have a national conservation going. But it wasn’t on Fox so you’d have missed it. Google teach kids to swim. There’s your conversation. Do you actually want to participate and just set up a straw man? There’s your chance to “dive in”.

  • Profile picture of limalimamike limalimamike said 6 months ago:

    All the information you garnered you got from the news…..not from personal experience. People who know nothing about guns have no business arguing about them.

    What are you going to argue next? Women’s makeup? hahahahaaaaa

  • Profile picture of milemarker milemarker said 6 months ago:

    Gee, that was a quick turn of conservation for someone who was popping buttons over his latest firearm acquisition in the wake of a mass murder. You really should be talking about woman’s cosmetics. You put on a different face every time you’re stumped for an explanation for your lack of moral filters.

  • Profile picture of limalimamike limalimamike said 6 months ago:

    FYI, I have been looking at the gun I recently purchased for over 1/2 of a year, doing my homework and comparing 7 different guns. You don’t just rush out and buy one whimsicially. They need to be put through their paces for overall feeling, lever action, ease of cartridge release, length, sights, trigger feel, where the picatinny rails are, safety mechanism, ETC.

    I don’t feel the need to explain my morals, as my responsibilities and results of my efforts speak for themselves.

  • Profile picture of catpaw catpaw said 5 months, 4 weeks ago:

    “People who know nothing about guns have no business arguing about them.”

    There are at least 40 parents who know more than they want to know about guns. Their arguments outweigh anything a firearms expert, the NRA, politicians, or anyone else has to say. I don’t think public opinion is going to tell them to shut up and mind their own business because they are not experts on 2nd Amendment rights, ammo, hand guns, gun sale laws, and so on.
    Morals and responsibility are also about tolarances. If gun advocates are going tolarate the means of evil people having access to the tools of mass murder–even defend those means as a constitutional right–then yes, they must share the accountability.
    The last statistical fact I heard was that there are enough firearms in the country for 8 out of 10 every man, woman, and child to possess a firearm. Yet there are some who would say that’s not enough–we should allow more firearms and less controls advocated by emotional “libs” who want to undermine the constitution or some such nonsense. And since they don’t know anything about guns, that must also mean they don’t know anything about jeopardized public safety. That argument does not come from logic, it comes from arrogance.

  • Profile picture of John  Bravo John Bravo said 5 months, 4 weeks ago:

    “Their arguments outweigh anything a firearms expert, the NRA, politicians, or anyone else has to say.”

    NO they don’t. Their arguments don’t outweigh anyone. That argument is based on arrogance. This is a Democratic Republic. We are governed by laws, not by emotion. Do the family and survivors or the Ft. Hood shootings have more say in the matter of Muslim Extremism in this country than the next person? Hell no. And you wouldn’t want it that way.

  • Profile picture of catpaw catpaw said 5 months, 4 weeks ago:

    Current polls don’t agree with you. Your stance is from the perspective of abstract reasoning; theirs is from the perspective of burying defenseless victims.