12.19.12
Economic stimulus in WhiteManistan
From the wires, during the last couple hours:
Gun shop owners say the increase in gun sales is related to consumers who fear the possibility of future restrictions or bans on weapons.
David Willis of EJW Outdoors Inc. at 4667 Arendell St. said Tuesday his store has seen a marked increase in gun sales for every caliber across the board. — Morehead City, NC
The 4,166 criminal background check requests for gun deals Virginia State Police received last Saturday, the day after the Newtown, Conn., shooting massacre, was the highest volume the agency’s registered since the state began running checks in 1989 …
Even so, a 42 percent increase in transactions — they represent the number of checks requested, not guns sold — the day after a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at a New England elementary school is attention-grabbing. — Richmond, VA
Sam Bishop stood Tuesday at the counter of Sharp Shooting Indoor Range and Gun Shop. He was looking at a gun for home security while he felt he still could, he said. “I want to be just one step ahead of everybody else,??? said Bishop, who was checking out the Spokane gun store’s selection of pistols
Spokane gun stores are reporting increased sales since the Newtown, Conn., school massacre Friday, which has sparked talk in Congress of potential gun control legislation. Sales already appeared to be up in 2012 before the latest tragedy. — Spokane, WA
Dobson and other local gun shop owners said fear of gun control has fueled sales since a school shooting Friday. Meanwhile, legislators and advocacy groups such as CeaseFirePA call for tighter gun restrictions and some retailers suspend sales of an assault rifle similar to one used in the Connecticut massacre.
Dobson, who owns West York Sporting Goods, said his store has been busy with customers who are “concerned only criminals will have guns” and they’ll be defenseless. It takes more guns, not fewer, to make a safer society, he said.
“(Lanza) could’ve used gasoline instead of guns,” Dobson said. “He would’ve had another way to kill people. He could’ve driven a car through the school or run over them in the parking lot. What happened is really terrible. It does bother me. [But how comes it doesn’t sound like it really bothers you?] But gun control is not the answer.”
Dobson said he’s afraid the massacre was an opportunity for President Barack Obama and those in favor of gun restrictions to push their agendas. — York, PA
At Staudt’s Gun Shop in Harrisburg, owner Joe Staudt says he sold out his usually large stock of semi-automatic weapons by Wednesday …
Sheriffs around the state report a sharp increase in applications for permits to conceal a handgun or carry one in a vehicle. — (AP) Harrisburg, PA.
Greg Apple is selling a lot of semiautomatic rifles …The guns on display at the Portland Expo Center are various models of the AR-15, the military-style rifle that one gun lobby says is “among the most popular firearms being sold.???
The 41-year-old Apple sips a Pyramid beer and urges people to buy now. The state of Oregon or President Obama, he says, could ban these guns in a matter of days.
But the national cascade of grief has had an inverse effect on buyers at the Portland gun show: The more horrified the nation became as news spread about Friday’s shooting in Connecticut, the more heated the sales of guns—especially the AR-15. [Portland, a few days before the Newtown massacre, had another multiple murder by a white man with an AR-15].
Customers are buying Bushmasters so fast that stores have trouble stocking it. “We sold 14 yesterday,” says Ross Meyer of Gunworld & Archery in Elko, Nev. “That’s way up. All of our suppliers are out of them.”
According to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald, gun stores across South Florida are reporting record sales in the wake of the mass murder at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school last Friday.
The move by some gun owners to buy up as many weapons as possible may accelerate Wednesday when President Barack Obama will announce his plans for new gun control initiative …
He said ammunition has been “at an all-time shortage for the last three or four years, since the President was elected the first time.
“We all have ammunition to sell but we don’t have all the ammunition we would want to buy,??? said Demicco. “Ammunition companies are operating a full tilt and people are stocking up on ammunition not knowing what potential legislation may be in the offing.
“There is tremendous fear of the unknown,??? he said. — Hookset, Connecticut
“Leave us the hell alone,” blurted Ted Nugent on Twitter. But he and his kind won’t leave us, the hell, alone.
As with most things, the cure to this mess begins and ends with the family. Traditional family values have been under siege for decades by our culture of contempt. In the absence of a solid family, the whole thing slowly unravels and rots.
“What ails us is a spiritual bankruptcy of cultural values,” Nugent writes.
Here’s the man of cultural and traditional family values, sampled from only two DD blog excerpts over the past two years:
“Free machine guns for the kids,??? Nugent screamed while wielding what we rightfully assume were real machine guns. This was the Nugent that we had been hearing harried and scared reports about for years now
What followed was the mother of all tirades against the mayor of Chicago, President Barack Obama, most Northerners, gun-haters and every “Chairman Mao motherfucker in the White House.??? We don’t remember hearing this sort of language directed towards Dubya during his tenure in office, at least with not this much volume and hate.
Shit is getting real. He’s preaching. Fuck this and fuck that. He’s railing. It’s awe-inspiring.
When he shares his political views? That’s entertaining, too, in a borderline frightening way.
He railed on government in general and the president in particular. He invited his audience to storm down to Springfield and take it over. Right after an f-bomb-laced barrage, he remarked that it was nice to see children in the audience …
Next, his bandmates – all in helmets now – recreated the famous photo of troops raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. It was a strange thing to tag on at the end of a concert. But in true Nugent fashion, they triumphantly waved their machine guns …
Freedom and guns, enough to gag on. This show was canceled by Discovery, yesterday. Nugent has long been a scoundrel who often benefits in the catering to the worst aspects of US society. It is good for everyone else when he has a bad day.
Ted Nugent, showing citizens from WhiteManistan, how to fire a an AR-15 that can do full auto. “Cool, huh!” Give it some views.
Freedom! Or pathology? Rhetorical, you can’t defend the indefensible. In a desire for a civil society, these aren’t the vitamins of liberty.
A scholarly post shooting down every cliched argument made by the gun right, including those citing the need for more guns, or more god.