Long Lines Form at Gun Stores Following San Bernardino Attack
Source: KABC
Updated 2 hrs 49 mins ago
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The fallout from the terror strike at the Inland Regional Center is measurable. Long lines of shoppers have been forming outside San Bernardino gun stores. "I plan on getting a couple here," said Monica Squires, who now sleeps with a cross bow above her bed.
Other gun owners are going one step further. They are seeking a CCW, a concealed weapons permit that authorizes a gun owner to carry that weapon in public for personal protection.
"I think it's time. Things are getting a little dangerous. Terrorists are just too close right here in Redlands," said Tom Farley, referring suspected mass shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and wife, Tashfeen Malik.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department processes the CCW applications, and since the massacre, phones have been ringing off the hook. A CCW official tells Eyewitness News that an estimated 1,100 people have filled out extensive forms and are now awaiting the next step in the screening process. The vetting aims to determine whether the applicant is law-abiding and as it states on the application, is "of good moral character."
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LMAO every time I see this.
Surely this has nothing to do with terrorism.
These are just repeat buyers impulse buying the latest trendy death spewer.
When things get questionable, people seek personal protection. Theres nothing paranoid or illogical about that.
This is something that the gun ban/strict control camp has no answer for.
... unless you actually believe this bit shouldn't be sarcasm:
> When things get questionable, people seek personal protection.
> Theres nothing paranoid or illogical about that.
Nah, nothing paranoid or illogical about queueing up in long lines to buy
a brand new bang-bang machine to kill strangers that you don't like simply
because some nutters - who are now dead - used similar items a few days
before ... to kill strangers that *they* didn't like.
Nothing paranoid or pathetic about *that* reaction ...
What a bunch of fuckwits.
I have lived most of my 50+ years with the threat of terrorists.
Both my brother and I have had multiple (separate) "near misses" from
"being in the wrong place at the wrong time" - that's all that separates
a normal person in a normal day from a victim of terrorism: timing.
Not weapons (concealed or openly carried). Fortunate timing.
> The SB terror attack demonstrated to people, that government failed
> to protect them from these sorts of attacks.
That is not being questioned.
> The SB terror attack also showed people, that all the gun control in the
> world is not going to prevent such a thing.
Also not being questioned.
"Gun control" wouldn't have helped - the SB murderers were "good people with guns"
right up to the moment when they weren't.
Existing laws against murder, explosives, etc., haven't helped past victims of
terrorism either as the murderers simply disregard them.
> People taking those two things into account, and making their own personal
> decisions based on them, doesn't mean they're paranoid, or that they want
> to 'kill people because they're strangers'.
Whilst I'll admit that the "kill people because they're strangers" was simple
hyperbole, there is (and has been) plenty of rhetoric from the "Ah got ma gun"
crowd that their guns make them feel "safer" when there are "The Others" around
(whether "The Others" are Muslims, Middle Easterners or simply AAs).
That aside, I strongly disagree that "it doesn't mean they're paranoid": it most
certainly DOES when that is their first reaction!
Did they think about the chance of this happening again in the same place? No.
Did they think about the uselessness of a hand-gun against a pipe-bomb? No.
Did they even stop to wonder if *any* of the people present that day already *was*
carrying a concealed weapon but didn't get the chance to use it? No.
What they did was buy in completely to the John Wayne response, put themselves
in a stupid herd situation (want to kill scared people? drive-by on a queue of sheep
waiting outside a gun shop!) and boost the profits of the only people who ever make
money out of these events: the arms dealers who are blatantly selling to both sides
of the "problem".
> If anything, it shows people are thinking about the whole situation.
Rubbish. It shows that people aren't thinking about the whole situation.
They are scared cowards who are gullibly buying into the NRA lies and perpetuating
the myth that "have gun, am safe".
> You just don't like the conclusion they've drawn.
Not so much "don't like" as "feel total contempt for" and "find it hard not to mock".
"Land of the Brave"? Fuck that. If they had as many brain cells as they have bullets,
they would realise exactly how stupid they were being ... but not much danger of that ...
The only people that should ever feel fear during the robbery is the victim. The robber should be able to do whatever he wants without being afraid of being killed.
And you know exactly what I meant by "happy all around". It meant that the innocent people survived. The robber could have survived by allowing his victims to call the police and allowing himself to get arrested.
If someone is holding a gun on you, he could decide to kill you at any time. There are tons of reports of robbers that get everything they want, and then shoot their victims.
When someone is robbing you, he's saying that he's willing to kill you to get your stuff.
...what the guy wrote ("happy all around"
, or somehow solve your reading comprehension issues.
Because of its not
