Gun sales are up
"The FBI recorded a 49 percent rise in gun background checks during
the 2008 election week compared to the same week a year earlier. Fear of
coming gun-control legislation certainly helped sell those guns, though
how much is impossible to say.
Indeed, this prolonged surge in gun sales has driven Sarah Brady’s group to some very creative spin; for example, Caroline Brewer, of the Brady Campaign, said, 'The research we’ve seen indicates fewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns.'"
Read the rest at Forbes. . .then off to the store with you.
Great news, even if their "research" is wrong. Guns have a way of making law-abiding citizens even more responsible and aware of their surroundings. When they realize the power that bad people have in THEIR hands, they become empowered and more aware when that power is in their hands. They understand why we have the 2cnd Amendment. They start to understand why we should defend The Constitution as a whole.
I do see some people falling in love with the sport and buying many guns. If you have the resources, enjoy. However, I've found that becoming very proficient with one or two weapons works and you can spend more on ammo. I'm still using the rifle I got for my 13th birthday and it works just fine. An inherited World War 2 M1 carbine I have does wonders too.
Use them, care for them, and protect them from thieves(politicians included).
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If some of the more strident people now fearing for their freedoms cause me to fear for mine much more than they are presently...I may start packing daily. (It'll be sort of a "Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy" thing, I guess.) That will be a problem.
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We're all safer when we're all packing. No problem at all.
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Ha! The old SNL cigarette commercial parody, "Show us your guns!"...eh? (absurdly wonderful, from '70s?)
You do know that I was talking about me wearing one daily. If you think we'll all be safer when we all live that way, well hell, let's just go for an anarchy that's freer than what we have today, if less civilized. There's not all THAT much civility to our rule at present.
I don't think the forces who increasingly purchase our politics and speech, however, will stand for much that threatens their power.
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Geoff, Geoff, Geoff. Your libertarian bent just slipped away.
Wear it daily. It is not just a right but a responsibility. Trust but verify.
John (maybe Maddie) and I are going through the C&C course in April. Join us.
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Kurt 3X! On the contrary, the gist of what I typed was of a very libertarian bent. Corporate power quite often threatens the individual. Commonly.
The only thing I wrote that could be otherwise is that I appear not to feel that on the average day I shall be safer when everyone is not just a gun owner/operator but is actually packing routinely on the street. That is a fact. It's a practical attitude I assume after consideration of the world within which I live. I want everyone to be able to exercise his or her right, but I shall not feel safer when we are all packing daily.
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