Gun Sales Are Through the Roof
In reaction to the deadly shooting spree in Aurora, Colo., Americans are stockpiling their own arsenals. Sales are up across the land, from Georgia to California.
In reaction to the deadly shooting spree in Aurora, Colo., Americans are stockpiling their own arsenals. Sales are up across the land, from Georgia to California.
In Colorado, background checks were up by 25 percent this weekend and 43 percent the week before, according to The Associated Press.
Gun sales also spiked after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in January 2011.
Bizarre as it sounds, shooting sprees are clearly great advertisements for the arms industry. These massacres always raise the need for increased gun control, the threat of which may spur sales, but such legislation is unlikely to be passed by a Congress well intimidated by the gun lobby.
— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer.
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Three people died and seven others were injured at a Lafayette theater Thursday night after a gunman opened fire during a screening of "Trainwreck." One of the dead was reported to be the shooter.
With lone wolf terrorists among us, the threat posed by ordinary citizens’ access to military-style weapons is no longer just a local problem but a very real national security risk.
As is always the case when catastrophic outbursts can be in any way linked to entertainment and mass culture, some critics have zoomed in on Hollywood as a fomenting agent for grandiose and antisocial delusions that wind their way into volatile minds like Elliot Rodger's -- and everyone else’s, for that matter.
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