Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas
Gun Rights Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
By Nick Allen, The Telegraph
According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December.
Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas.
It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.
On Dec 23 alone there were 102,222 background checks, making it the second busiest single day for buying guns in history.
The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.
Explanations for America’s surge in gun buying include that it is a response to the stalled economy with people fearing crime waves. Another theory is that buyers are rushing to gun shops because they believe tighter firearms laws will be introduced in the future.
The National Rifle Association said people were concerned about self defence because police officer numbers were declining.
A spokesman said: “I think there’s an increased realisation that when something bad occurs it’s going to be between them and the criminal.”
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I think there is a general consensus that our government has gone rogue with Gestapo-like Homeland Security’s TSA and now TSA VIPR on the nation’s highways. I think people are afraid of our own government.
I think you are correct. It is pretty sad when we fear our own government, who would have ever thought?
The founding Fathers certainly saw the possibility. Wikipedia notes the following reasons for the 2nd Amendment
deterring undemocratic government;
repelling invasion;
suppressing insurrection;
facilitating a natural right of self-defense;
participating in law enforcement;
enabling the people to organize a militia system.
After all, the Declaration of Independence begins,”When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”