Aftermath of Midnight Massacre: People Waking up
Following the theatre shootings in Aurora, Americans are buying guns and filing with their states to legally carry and conceal firearms. Scrolling through the headlines on Drudge and The Gun Wire (a new favorite site of mine) it appears that people across the nation, not only in Colorado, are waking up.
The NY Post is reporting:
“gun sales jumped in the three days that followed. The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — 25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior…Seattle’s home county, King, saw nearly twice as many requests for concealed pistol licenses than the same timeframe a year ago. Florida recorded 2,386 background checks on Friday, up 14 percent from the week before. Oregon checks on Friday and Saturday were up 11 percent over the month prior. Four days of checks in California were up 10 percent month-to-month.”
What’s astonishing about these numbers is that according the the FBI’s numbers July is historically lower in gun sales. It appears that people are realizing that when seconds are all you have you cannot rely on the police to arrive 6 minutes later.
Even Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson is saying he is getting a license to Carry, “What Aurora did for me, personally,” said Johnson, “is that I’m going and getting a concealed carry permit.” Of course not all Americans feel that guns SAVE lives. There are the anti-gun Mayor Bloomberg and Michael Moore coming out full force to try to push for more gun control laws. This isn’t surprising. When hasn’t Bloomberg or Moore thought that we all should be less dependent on the governemnt. They have a history of pushing Americans to be more dependent on the government. According to them even our safety, protection, and lives should be dependent of the governement as well.
There will be a follow up soon addressing the media talking about banning “Assault Rifles” and “Machine Guns.” HINT: They don’t know what they are talking about!
