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Direct Headline: Americans bought guns in record numbers in 2020 during a year of unrest -- and the surge is continuing
Ken Baye, owner of Stoddard's Range and Guns in Atlanta, said he's seeing a different kind of customer these days: new shooters. "We see a lot of women come in, a lot of couples, people with children," he said. "We're really seeing pretty much every walk of life."
By Martin Savidge and Maria Cartaya, CNN 1:35 PM ET, Sun March 14, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/us/us-gun-sales-record/index.html
Direct Headline: 1st-Time Gun Buyers Help Push Record U.S. Gun Sales Amid String Of Mass Shootings
These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they're being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe. Gun sellers across the country said the pandemic and civil unrest over the past year have pushed customers to feel they must take control of their families' protection.
Jaclyn Diaz April 26, 20215:06 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/989699122/1st-time-gun-buyers-help-push-record-u-s-gun-sales-amid-string-of-mass-shootings
Direct Headline: An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up.
Preliminary research data show that about a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners. Sales usually spike around elections, but the sheer volume is notable. And the data, which has not been previously released, showed that new owners were less likely than usual to be male and white. Half were women, a fifth were Black and a fifth were Hispanic.
By Sabrina Tavernise May 30, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/us/gun-purchases-ownership-pandemic.html
VIDEO: More women become first-time gun owners for protection Oct 28, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejVDxB76ZRU
VIDEO: Black female gun ownership skyrockets Oct 11, 2021
Gun and ammo sales skyrocketed across the US during the pandemic. In the first six months of 2021 some 3.2 million people purchased a firearm for the first time. 87 percent of shop owners reported an increase in firearms purchased by African American women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQWdpuXaXI
VIDEO: San Gabriel Valley Gun Sales Soar Among Asian Americans Amid Growing Fears Of Coronavirus CBS Los Angeles Mar 10, 2020
Gun sales are skyrocketing across the San Gabriel Valley as Asian Americans in the area fear they may be targeted because of their ethnicity amid rising fears about the spread of the coronavirus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qJupxxfas
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Total US population is roughly in the range of 340 million. Estimates are that there are over 400 million firearms in America right now. 40 million were sold combined in 2020 and 2021 alone. That means 1 out of every 10 guns in the entire country sold to civilians was done in the last two years. A large contingent of first time gun owners are women buying handguns at a record pace, with many being African American. Within this group, the common theme appears to be the desire to protect their children in wake of the pandemic and the lawlessness enabled all around them.
Previous "stigma" about being a gun owner in America has now been thrown out the window. Parents are quite bi-partisan about their children's safety. They don't care about political ideology when rioters, looters, thieves, felons, career criminals, rapists, and psychopaths with Molotov cocktails are shown running around creating chaos, death and destroying innocent people's lives and there is a clear association with cooked idiotic public policy behind it.
Consider:
- Defund The Police
- Several Years Of Unchecked Identity Politics Based Widespread Rioting And Looting
- Public Policy By The Radical Left Turning Big Blue Cities Into Havens For Chaos, Violence and Lawlessness
- Cooked Bail Reform/Bailing Out Career Criminals
- Elected Officials On Record Egging On The Unrest
This isn't some unpredictable outcome here. If the current Democratic Party and Biden Administration sends out a bright neon sign to American citizens saying widespread law and order has been effectively abandoned and that no help is coming for tax paying law abiding parents and that their children are going to be left out as prey, then those people will find a means to defend themselves and their families. American citizens aren't just going to roll over and watch their children die.
You can't be a government that abandons civil order and then tells people they can't have guns to defend themselves after you've deserted them.
The current Democratic Party can't keep pushing for more gun control under these conditions. The long standing gun control debate is over. Joe Biden, his administration and the radical left can keep screaming about taking away more guns and making more gun laws, but the masses have shown they are still going to keep buying them in record numbers anyway.
Think about how much of a failure a single political administration has to become to upturn the entire long standing gun control divide in less than three years time.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
Ken Baye, owner of Stoddard's Range and Guns in Atlanta, said he's seeing a different kind of customer these days: new shooters. "We see a lot of women come in, a lot of couples, people with children," he said. "We're really seeing pretty much every walk of life."
By Martin Savidge and Maria Cartaya, CNN 1:35 PM ET, Sun March 14, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/us/us-gun-sales-record/index.html
Direct Headline: 1st-Time Gun Buyers Help Push Record U.S. Gun Sales Amid String Of Mass Shootings
These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they're being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe. Gun sellers across the country said the pandemic and civil unrest over the past year have pushed customers to feel they must take control of their families' protection.
Jaclyn Diaz April 26, 20215:06 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/989699122/1st-time-gun-buyers-help-push-record-u-s-gun-sales-amid-string-of-mass-shootings
Direct Headline: An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up.
Preliminary research data show that about a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners. Sales usually spike around elections, but the sheer volume is notable. And the data, which has not been previously released, showed that new owners were less likely than usual to be male and white. Half were women, a fifth were Black and a fifth were Hispanic.
By Sabrina Tavernise May 30, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/us/gun-purchases-ownership-pandemic.html
VIDEO: More women become first-time gun owners for protection Oct 28, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejVDxB76ZRU
VIDEO: Black female gun ownership skyrockets Oct 11, 2021
Gun and ammo sales skyrocketed across the US during the pandemic. In the first six months of 2021 some 3.2 million people purchased a firearm for the first time. 87 percent of shop owners reported an increase in firearms purchased by African American women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQWdpuXaXI
VIDEO: San Gabriel Valley Gun Sales Soar Among Asian Americans Amid Growing Fears Of Coronavirus CBS Los Angeles Mar 10, 2020
Gun sales are skyrocketing across the San Gabriel Valley as Asian Americans in the area fear they may be targeted because of their ethnicity amid rising fears about the spread of the coronavirus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qJupxxfas
*********
Total US population is roughly in the range of 340 million. Estimates are that there are over 400 million firearms in America right now. 40 million were sold combined in 2020 and 2021 alone. That means 1 out of every 10 guns in the entire country sold to civilians was done in the last two years. A large contingent of first time gun owners are women buying handguns at a record pace, with many being African American. Within this group, the common theme appears to be the desire to protect their children in wake of the pandemic and the lawlessness enabled all around them.
Previous "stigma" about being a gun owner in America has now been thrown out the window. Parents are quite bi-partisan about their children's safety. They don't care about political ideology when rioters, looters, thieves, felons, career criminals, rapists, and psychopaths with Molotov cocktails are shown running around creating chaos, death and destroying innocent people's lives and there is a clear association with cooked idiotic public policy behind it.
Consider:
- Defund The Police
- Several Years Of Unchecked Identity Politics Based Widespread Rioting And Looting
- Public Policy By The Radical Left Turning Big Blue Cities Into Havens For Chaos, Violence and Lawlessness
- Cooked Bail Reform/Bailing Out Career Criminals
- Elected Officials On Record Egging On The Unrest
This isn't some unpredictable outcome here. If the current Democratic Party and Biden Administration sends out a bright neon sign to American citizens saying widespread law and order has been effectively abandoned and that no help is coming for tax paying law abiding parents and that their children are going to be left out as prey, then those people will find a means to defend themselves and their families. American citizens aren't just going to roll over and watch their children die.
You can't be a government that abandons civil order and then tells people they can't have guns to defend themselves after you've deserted them.
The current Democratic Party can't keep pushing for more gun control under these conditions. The long standing gun control debate is over. Joe Biden, his administration and the radical left can keep screaming about taking away more guns and making more gun laws, but the masses have shown they are still going to keep buying them in record numbers anyway.
Think about how much of a failure a single political administration has to become to upturn the entire long standing gun control divide in less than three years time.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
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