Gun Control movement is DEAD. Good job liberals.

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It is very encouraging how many people, several of them not "traditional" firearms buyers, realized that firearms are useful or even necessary for self defense during times of  "peaceful protests" and purchased firearms. And that's why the leftist nutters now try to correlate/blame legal gun purchasing and ownership with increase in crime:

"That gun-buying binge is associated with a significant increase in gun violence across the United States"


Spike in violent crime follows rise in gun-buying amid social upheaval

Americans purchased millions more guns than usual this spring, spurred in large part by racial animosity stoked by widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as well as anxiety over the effects of the covid-19 pandemic.

That gun-buying binge is associated with a significant increase in gun violence across the United States.

Those are the conclusions of two studies by the Brookings Institution and the University of California at Davis, respectively. Together, they paint a portrait of a society arming itself against social upheaval during a time of institutional failure.

The Brookings study, after examining federal background check data, estimated an additional 3 million firearms were sold from March through June, compared with the same period in previous years. That’s roughly equivalent to the spike in gun purchases observed following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting and more than 50 percent higher than would have been expected for June sales.

Nearly half of those 3 million additional sales happened in June, after several days of protests sparked by Floyd’s killing in police custody. Researchers Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight of Wellesley College wrote that the spike differed from previous gun-buying binges because it was not driven by fear of pending restrictions but rather by anxiety and unease over the ongoing crises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/15/gun-sales-jump-protests-coronavirus/

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Typical liberal trash on the gun control issue.  The people buying lawful guns don’t commit crimes w them.  They are trying make it as if those buying guns and goi g through NICS are then committing crimes.   Absurd.

It is very encouraging how many people, several of them not "traditional" firearms buyers, realized that firearms are useful or even necessary for self defense during times of  "peaceful protests" and purchased firearms. And that's why the leftist nutters now try to correlate/blame legal gun purchasing and ownership with increase in crime:

"That gun-buying binge is associated with a significant increase in gun violence across the United States"


Spike in violent crime follows rise in gun-buying amid social upheaval

Americans purchased millions more guns than usual this spring, spurred in large part by racial animosity stoked by widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as well as anxiety over the effects of the covid-19 pandemic.

That gun-buying binge is associated with a significant increase in gun violence across the United States.

Those are the conclusions of two studies by the Brookings Institution and the University of California at Davis, respectively. Together, they paint a portrait of a society arming itself against social upheaval during a time of institutional failure.

The Brookings study, after examining federal background check data, estimated an additional 3 million firearms were sold from March through June, compared with the same period in previous years. That’s roughly equivalent to the spike in gun purchases observed following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting and more than 50 percent higher than would have been expected for June sales.

Nearly half of those 3 million additional sales happened in June, after several days of protests sparked by Floyd’s killing in police custody. Researchers Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight of Wellesley College wrote that the spike differed from previous gun-buying binges because it was not driven by fear of pending restrictions but rather by anxiety and unease over the ongoing crises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/15/gun-sales-jump-protests-coronavirus/