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California gun sales skyrocket after school shooting

December 20, 2012

In the aftermath of an election and another school shooting, firearm sales in California are at an all-time high. [PressEnterprise]

Friday’s shooting at a Connecticut school in which a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults with a .223-caliber Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle has reignited calls for gun control legislation.

In October, with pre-election debates including arguments for and against stricter gun control laws, gun enthusiasts began scrambling to pick up weapons that could be banned.

According to the FBI, during the month of October, background checks required for gun purchases in California jumped 27 percent, from 89,164 to 113,832.

Following the November election, gun sales increased 49 percent compared to the same time last year, according to the California Department of Justice.

California already has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. The state bans assault weapons, requires background checks on all gun buyers, requires that all gun sales be processed through a licensed dealer, bans the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines and has a 10-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms.

 


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I have a couple of questions. First, why was there such a rise in the sale of guns after the shooting? 49% rise in gun sales as compared to the same time last year. I find this rise very curious and would like to know why people purchased. I somehow think it was more of a need of people with good intentions and wanting to somehow protect themselves and families in a society that offers little guarantees or protection against the defenseless. I don’t think that such a rise would be coming from the criminal element whose intent was to cause harm and havoc and seeing this as an opportunity to purchase a gun. Since purchase was always an option for criminals as well as law abiding citizens just wondering which of these two elements was making the purchase.


Second, I am not sure the numbers reflect so much the reality of the situation. The Connecticut shooting was on December 14 and stats are from Nov to Nov and do not include the sale of guns after the shooting. I think to be accurate in claiming there is a connection between shootings and purchase of arms the correct time frame would be helpful.


And lastly, if it is the desire of a nation to control the level of violence would it not be more conducive to that end to understanding first the cause that made it necessary? Unless we are able to discern the real cause I am having difficulty understanding how we can come up with an effective and meaningful solution.


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On the morning of April 19th, 1775, the British left their garrison and marched on Lexington & Concord to seize arms. In other words, they were enforcing gun control by the world’s super power.


Fast forward to today. The president has stated that “…I asked Joe to lead this effort in part because he wrote the 1994 crime bill that helped law enforcement bring down the rate of violent crime in this country. That plan — that bill also included the assault weapons ban…”.


This is taken to mean that an assault weapons ban is in the works. People are taking steps now to secure their civil rights and have been spurred into visiting their local gun shop. The demand has far out stripped the supply. Weapons’ values have doubled in the last 10 day. Standard capacity magazines have gone from $12 apiece 2 weeks ago to $70 apiece now (if you can even find any). Ammunition is rapidly drying up also.


What does this all mean? To begin with, the $2,500 that a person spent on a rifle, magazines, and ammunition are NOT being spent for Christmas shopping. Retailers are going to suffer as a result. Another effect is hundreds of thousands of rifles in new owners hands. Lastly, manufacturers throughout the industry and suppliers are working beyond capacity.


Like 237 years ago, citizens are taking steps to protect their means by which to resist tyranny. Whether that tyranny comes at the hands of a home invasion, an assault, or a national invasion; law abiding citizens must have the means to resist that tyranny.


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What everyone needs to keep in mind is, the Second Amendment isn’t about guns. The Second Amendment is about tyranny. Living under the tyranny of King George meant that the founders intended for Americans to have the path by which to resist tyranny.


How can anyone make a case that the AR15 isn’t exactly what the founders had in mind when they penned ‘…arms…’? People instinctively know this and this is why you are seeing a run on gun shops recently. Americans are worried that their civil rights are going to be taken away, so they are taking steps to mitigate that risk.


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Twenty-six reasons for gun control…

-Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female

– Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male

– Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female.

– Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female

– Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female

– Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female

– Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male

– Dawn Hochsprung, 06/28/65, female

– Madeleine F. Hsu, 7/10/06, female

– Catherine V. Hubbard, 6/08/06, female

– Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male

– Jesse Lewis, 6/30/06, male

– James Mattioli , 3/22/06, male

– Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female

– Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female

– Emilie Parker, 5/12/06, female

– Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male

– Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male

– Caroline Previdi, 9/07/06, female

– Jessica Rekos, 5/10/06, female

– Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female

– Lauren Rousseau, 6/1982, female (full date of birth not specified)

– Mary Sherlach, 2/11/56, female

– Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female

– Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male

– Allison N. Wyatt, 7/03/06, female


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So is your refusal to accept reality. and because of this, all these children are dead. along with two fireman today responding to a house fire. You must be so proud.


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“Reality” is that insane/violent people kill others. Deal with them. Stop trying to look past the actual problem so you can indulge your gun control fetish.


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With the guns YOU promote!


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Your gun control fetish has you living in a fantasy world where no one will have guns and that everything will be perfect.


The problem is just that — it’s a fantasy. Guns ain’t going anywhere and you know it. So your fetish focuses on magazine size.


Focus on saving lives and not on your sicko fetish.


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Your reality can best be described as TONE DEAF. And because of that, the massacres will continue.


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Your reality can best be described as a combination of ignorance and arrogance. You have no clue what’s going on. You want to indulge your fetish because it will make you feel better even though it has already shown not to have an impact on violent crimes.


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It’s sad how people like you are trying to take the spotlight away from the real problem — insane/violent people. Haven’t you ignored the problem long enough? How many kids will continue to be slaughtered until you stop lying to yourself?


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It’s sad people like you want to dominate the conversation about your pro-gun fetish.

How some people think more guns will help in the long run as more die.


Guns in every school/church/store/home is the privatized police state gimlett keeps warning us about.


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Oh, and the NRA is all about gun safety, with the Eddie Eagle program to teach kids to tell an adult about a gun, not playing with guns, as well as civilian and police training courses of all types.


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Quite to the contrary. The REAL problem is your incredibly myopic thinking that has resulted in the slaughter of innocent Americans.

Seems YOU and the NRA have NEVER promoted gun control of any kind and yet YOU want to blame those who would. Even though the the mass murders continue.

Lets face it, you and your supporters are in part responsible for these murders, and will be for future murders until such time you awaken your moral conscience and quit worshiping you “inanimate” idol and quit hiding behind the 200 Amendment.


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I agree. It’s horrible. Simply awful.


But they have nothing else…


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Bogus quotes from the founders have been filtered. LINK


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I wonder how many killings have been facilitated by the asinine notion of “gun free zones”? Exactly who came up with such a dangerous concept and who approved their use? Creating zones that guaranteed that only the violent criminals would be armed! Didn’t they have the smarts to think it through before implementing such a horrid idea?


Or were they just desperate to give the impression that they were doing something — just as they are when they talk about banning guns?


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just make some thing up ….


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Something we can all get behind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FEHOmsiUI&list=TLi2m9_-KyGFY


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Recommending the deployment of more guns is nothing more than recommending “brain free” zones.


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Thank you NRA for preserving my constitutionally-protected, inalienable right to keep and bear firearms. Thank you from the thousands in the USA who have used firearms in this past year to defend themselves from violent attacks.


Please ignore the carping of those ignorant souls who want to ignore the fact that sick/violent people are the source of massacres like the one in Newtown, CT and not inatimate objects like firearms.


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in animate objects : whisky bottle coathanger


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You should know…


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